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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

In a damning audit report , Grant Thornton has exposed how the project implementation turned into a cautionary tale of project mismanagement, highlighting critical failures in governance, technical oversight, and vendor management that continue to impact the councils core operations. Cost overruns and delays: where did it go wrong?

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

The Foundation is also responding to requests from practitioners to extend its framework to cover other areas of IT, such as private cloud, SaaS, licensing, and on-prem data centers. They review transparency and budgeting, and engage with the finance organization monthly to review trends.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT

Cloud Musings

tight federal, state and local IT budgets. Jackson, NJVC Vice President and General Manager, Cloud. without sacrificing the budget it would take to support those solutions. Instead of leveraging IT budgets to maintain and upgrade hardware and software, cloud allows responders to devote more IT. Alternately, over.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Instead, in working across Azure, “we use some proprietary solutions that we licensed and then do very simple coding,” he says. For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.