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FinOps SaaS: The missing piece of the puzzle

CIO Business Intelligence

The growing role of FinOps in SaaS SaaS is now a vital component of the Cloud ecosystem, providing anything from specialist tools for security and analytics to enterprise apps like CRM systems. FinOps procedures and ITAM tools should work together to guarantee ongoing SaaS license management and monitoring.

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO Business Intelligence

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Meta also has a veto on competitors using Llama for anything too big: The Llama 3.2

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

FinOps finally became ubiquitous across the enterprise landscape last year with 75% of Forbes Global 2000 companies now all-in, according to IDC. By contrast, in some large financial services firms, the role of FinOps has broadened. Plus, many enterprises were doing FinOps well before the term was coined.

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New trade body wants to license training data for AI use

CIO Business Intelligence

Seven companies that license music, images, videos, and other data used for training artificial intelligence systems have formed a trade association to promote responsible and ethical licensing of intellectual property.

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AI dominates Gartner’s 2025 predictions

CIO Business Intelligence

By 2028, 40% of large enterprises will deploy AI to manipulate and measure employee mood and behaviors, all in the name of profit. “AI By 2027, 70% of new contracts for employees will include licensing and fair usage clauses for AI representations of their personas.

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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Getting your enterprise ready for the real AI

Network World

For more and more enterprises, it’s an application you run in house. Of 292 enterprises who’ve commented to me on AI plans, 164 say that they believe their real AI benefits will accrue from self-hosting AI, not from public generative services. That doesn’t mean you’ve given up on AI, just that you’ve faced reality.