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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Consider consumption-based contracts One of the best ways to align IT costs with value-generating outcomes is with consumption-based pricing, although it may seem like a higher-cost option. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. Whether agile should include FinOps or not is a matter of debate,” he says.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. It took some time for me to realize how to make the right tech choices. To me, it’s how can we replace old technology with newer technology that’s going to be more agile, more cost effective.”

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Broadcom Software Return to Face-to-Face Customer Engagements

CIO Business Intelligence

By Tom Thorpe, Vice President International Markets, Broadcom Software. It’s been great to see people returning to face-to-face meetings in recent months – for us at Broadcom Software, a little more than most. Talk about timing: just as we completed the acquisition of Symantec in November 2019, a global pandemic hit.

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IT leader’s survival guide: 11 ways to thrive in the years ahead

CIO Business Intelligence

According to a future-looking report from IDC , to thrive in the years ahead, the key will be to make your organization more agile and resilient, in large part by empowering your teams through collaborative decision-making focused on business outcomes. . Some hires may need to be postponed. Budgets may need adjusting,” he says.

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The Emergence

Crafty CTO

Apple’s bag is mixed , with strength in ML-enabled silicon but weakness on AI software, particularly Siri’s grave limitations and snails-pace evolution. Where can we apply what’s emerging to make our product better, increase our agility and effectiveness, reduce costs? Stay up on what’s emerging.

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Examining low-code/no-code popularity across Africa and its range of disruption for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Forty-four percent say the ability to accelerate the delivery of new software and applications is a benefit — the lowest percentage of any region.” Some West African countries, such as Benin, understand that low-code/no-code tools are innovative and disruptive to the CIO community, but not universally trusted.