CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When your CEO or CFO asks about the budget needed for technical debt remediation , do you find yourself struggling to justify the investment? Our research reveals that top performers allocate around 15% of their IT budget to debt remediation. You’re not alone. Instead, show how leading companies manage it strategically.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

Many CIOs expect significant price increases in the cloud and other IT products and services during 2025, requiring those with stagnant budgets to make difficult decisions about IT spending. Vendors have begun to build AI into software as well, he says, and in many cases, charge customers for the additional functionality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. And for some organizations, annual cloud spend has increased dramatically.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

These are fairly exciting times to watch new business models in software emerge after a decade plus of limited changes, he writes. By pricing based on the underlying costs of compute, latency, and throughput, this model provides clarity on how charges are determined and allows for more precise budgeting, Leo John says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

Until now, many companies have cut costs in other areas, laid off staff, or raided the budgets of other departments to pay for AI projects. If you look at 23 and 2024 you had a lot of budget increases, you had a bunch of layoffs over the last couple of years, and not something thats sustainable.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Poor resource management and optimization Excessive enterprise cloud costs are typically the result of inefficient resource management and a lack of optimization. Many enterprises also overestimate the resources required, leading to larger, more expensive instances being provisioned than necessary, causing overprovisioning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This is true whether it’s an outdated system that’s no longer vendor-supported or infrastructure that doesn’t align with a cloud-first strategy, says Carrie Rasmussen, CIO at human resources software and services firm Dayforce. A first step, Rasmussen says, is ensuring that existing tools are delivering maximum value.

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

However, high-speed also means high power and higher heat, placing more demands on the electrical grid and resources and creating a demand for new options. At a time when many DC [data center] operators are facing challenges around power and cooling, LPO can save 25% of the networking power budget, at a system level.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a system of integrated software applications that manages day-to-day business processes and operations across finance, human resources, procurement, distribution, supply chain, and other functions. Success breeds success often consuming more time than originally budgeted.

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Network World

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The whole notion of migrating data and having to manage tiering is time consuming and resource intensive. Specifically, those requirements call for “a transceiver type 100G LR4 QSFP, an active IP auto configuration (DHCP) and up-to-date software/transceiver drivers.” “If Cost savings meets simplicity for enterprise users,” he said.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 18, 2017

Marketing resource management (MRM) vendor Aprimo snatched up ADAM Software, which bolsters Aprimo's digital asset management (DAM) capabilities and reinforces the consolidation and convergence that we predicted. MRM vendors like Aprimo help marketers assign tasks, track resources, budget, and review materials.

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Network World

MARCH 12, 2025

In many respects, the Linux Foundation positions itself in 2025 as a foundation of foundations, providing the tools, resources, legal, governance and event support that open-source groups need. Everybody is going to need infrastructure software to power all that. Back in 2012 we did consider putting OpenStack in the Linux Foundation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

HP Anyware is the enterprise software IT needs to keep people productive with secured access to their digital workspaces without a VPN. This software solution features Anyware Manager, helping IT teams keep their people productive in an ever-changing environment. Why HP Anyware?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2025

AI services require high resources like CPU/GPU and memory and hence cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud provide many AI services including features for genAI. Model training costs: Monitor expenses related to computational resources during model development.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Because as a young CIO, I was struggling with obtaining budget approvals for a range of IT initiatives. A majority of CIOs I speak with dread the budget approval process and breathe a welcome sigh of relief when annual budgeting comes to an end. In other words, the IT resources needed for this project are substantial.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When organizations buy a shiny new piece of software, attention is typically focused on the benefits: streamlined business processes, improved productivity, automation, better security, faster time-to-market, digital transformation. A full-blown TCO analysis can be complicated and time consuming.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Birmingham City Councils (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget. Cost overruns and delays: where did it go wrong?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

The team, primarily composed of data and software engineers, has become adept at manipulating massive cloud data stores. Good data engineering enables transparency, visibility, and accurate budgeting and forecasting. Engineer-friendly tools: Automation tools should be accessible and user-friendly for engineers managing cloud resources.

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Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

BMC today announced plans to divide its existing company into two standalone software companies, one focusing on its long-standing mainframe business and the other focusing on tools for managing IT and distributed operations. As one company, BMC was spreading a limited R&D budget across too many product needs,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

For example, companies can optimize time-to-value with standardized contracts and flexible payment options, allowing them to test software, pay as they go, negotiate custom terms, and save with volume pricing. This enables companies to simplify invoicing, track spending, and manage budgets.

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IT Toolbox

MAY 18, 2017

Even if your company is taking advantage of the latest, most cost-effective enterprise resource planning (ERP) software available, it’s still possible—even probable—that it will spend outside its ERP budget. Various factors come into play to explain this cost overrun, including hidden fees and poor planning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Success in this area has always required structured review, negotiations and tough decisions to manage resources, systems, and vendors. By assessing the total cost of ownership (TCO) and the return on investment (ROI) for each system, organizations can make informed decisions about where to allocate resources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Because Windows 11 Pro has new hardware requirements, your upgrade strategy must both address hardware and software aspects, not to mention security, deployment plans, training, and more. Then, check with the software vendors to see if the applications are compatible with Windows 11 Pro.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Each phase intersects with any of 10 knowledge areas, which include: integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk procurement, and stakeholder management. Time management: Plan and develop schedules and activities, estimate resources and timelines. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets.

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Network World

AUGUST 8, 2024

A large organization owning such systems adds dimensions of complexity with ever-changing network topologies, strict requirements on failure domains, multiple competing transfers, and layers of software and hardware with multiple kinds of quotas.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world. IT Leadership.

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Network World

DECEMBER 23, 2024

A recent report from Enterprise Management Associates found that only about a quarter (27%) of networking teams believe that they have the tools and resources to successfully manage day-to-day operations of complex network infrastructure. That number is down significantly from roughly 50% just five years prior.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 28, 2024

You know the drill: software licenses, subscription fees, consulting fees, and hardware infrastructure. The remaining 70% comprises hidden costs that rarely make it into initial budgets or project proposals. I recently talked to the CEO of a mid-sized manufacturing company that budgeted $500,000 for an AI-driven quality control system.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

So when it comes to securing funding and resources from the board, is the CIO put in the box seat if technology is at the center of investment strategy? Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily. There are several ways to tackle this problem.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

They all provide multi-cloud cost optimization and resource optimization recommendations, and they all have different strengths and weaknesses, Jensen says. They review transparency and budgeting, and engage with the finance organization monthly to review trends. And a few vendors have early releases.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

“When data scientists and developers spend cycles doing systems integration, software stack engineering and IT support, they are spending precious OpEx on things that you’d rather they didn’t,” says Tony Paikeday, senior director of AI systems at NVIDIA. Alternate approach: Colocation services for AI infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

There are myriad systems kept on life support in every enterprise because companies delay replacing them, resulting in downtime and the continual need for time-consuming fixes, which consume resources and continue to build technical debt. Budget, Business IT Alignment, Infrastructure Management, IT Leadership, IT Strategy, Risk Management

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Integration with other systems was difficult and it required a lot of specialized resources to make changes, such as business processes and validation during order entry and replenishment to branch offices, he says. Quite frankly, we didn’t have the internal resources to support an on-premise solution,” Shannon says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Despite national news about increased costs, economic uncertainty, and more reports of technology firm layoffs, respondents indicated that they were planning to spend more IT budget in 2023, not less. One contributing factor to managed services’ ongoing growth as a percentage of IT budgets is finding and keeping the right IT talent.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Given the extended timeline and massive amount of resources dedicated to that project, the only reason it survived to completion was the absolute necessity to change all date formats so they wouldn’t clock out systems at the end of the last century. The vendor’s software release cycles get longer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Most IT departments are under-resourced and left to debate what capabilities, improvements, and fixes to prioritize. Past shifts to agile methodologies helped as teams now had a product owne r to prioritize backlogs and adopted agile principles that empowered them to commit to a realistic amount of work.

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