CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

But while the company’s legal staff are its experts when it comes to analyzing contracts, they aren’t its experts in the subject matter that IT’s vendor contracts and license agreements govern. So vendor negotiations and contracts must be a collaboration between IT and the General Counsel, with IT’s Business Office taking the lead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In space, no-one can cancel your software license NASA is a scientific marvel that does all sorts of cool and inspiring space stuff; it’s also a sprawling government bureaucracy with thousands of employees and computer systems under its umbrella.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Instead, in working across Azure, “we use some proprietary solutions that we licensed and then do very simple coding,” he says. It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor. It used to be that you had 15 to 30 key vendor partners, and now it’s more than 100,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 13, 2023

Kopczynski adds that CISOs can uncover such improvements with questions such as whether their organization is using all the functions in a security tool, if those features overlap with other tools, and whether the organization is paying too much for licenses or for too many licenses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

From the way we pay our bills to the way we communicate, shop, and even get our driver’s license renewed, not much looks like it did 10 or even five years ago. Previously, technology teams were effectively only tracking IT metrics, reporting on whether they delivered on time and on budget. Take the analogy of a factory.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Another CIO mentioned that planning and moving data to the cloud required deep collaboration with vendors to build an assessment for licensing, workloads and migration costs. Technology was no longer considered a service to the business but a valuable and strategic part of accelerating business both functionally and financially.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

What’s being announced: New HPE GreenLake for Aruba Data Center Networking Service Packs Today’s environment of economic uncertainty and budget scrutiny requires organizations to improve the traditional IT acquisition process of significant up-front capital investment, long-term budgeting, and elongated procurement cycles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This blog will examine how enterprises can take stock of their systems, and offer best practices for IT teams with small budgets looking to re-tool. Getting by on Small Budgets. Smaller businesses with tighter budgets are often more likely to undertake re-tooling. The Importance of Self-Analysis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

You know my budget is tight; I can’t afford that. Not only do you want me to migrate to HANA and S/4HANA, but you also want me to give up my perpetual licenses and replace them with subscriptions. You told the whole world that after December 31, 2027, you would charge an additional 2 percentage points for sustaining support.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As an IT leader, you deal with balancing benefits and budgets within the rapid pace of technological change every day. 5G usually relies on either licensed spectrum or shared-access spectrum in which users are only other known telecom users. The benefits are extraordinary.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But, to gain control of your software lifecycle, you must first understand what you have, where it’s deployed, what you’ll need next and when demand for licenses will increase. This enables us to map out your environment and formulate a plan of action that fits both the technology constraints and your budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such conversations … should conclude with clear actions, benefits, timelines, and the budget and resources required to close gaps.” Prioritized actions can then be assigned to the appropriate teams to address topics such as licensing, process improvement, vulnerability hunting, security control visibility, and regulatory mandates.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cybersecurity for the enterprise is a critical aspect of doing business in our online and connected world. So, with a limited budget, where should we focus? Putting your faith—and your budget—in the wrong place can result in substandard protection, increased operational overhead and costs, and compliance gaps.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2022

Difficulties may arise around licensing, intellectual property laws and data protection regulations. . Maintaining data models to ensure consistency and dealing with errors as they occur is a significant cost that many businesses underestimate. Idera calculates that maintenance generally accounts for 50-80% of development budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

Cloud is taking an ever-larger proportion of IT departments’ budgets, and the picture is no different here. Software spend includes annual license renewals and ongoing support, whether bundled or charged separately, but excludes additional fees for training, consulting, or systems integration.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2022

This translates to RBI licenses typically costing $40 or more on a per user basis. For a company with 10,000 endpoints, that is a large chunk of the cybersecurity budget. License fees are minimal. In fact, the fully loaded RBI cost can be as much as “almost any other five security products… combined,” Al-Abdulla says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

Hardware purchased with a three to five year depreciation plan or lease contracts tie up budget that could be otherwise used to move more rapidly to cloud. Software licenses. Owned hardware assets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Any infrastructure purchase requires a budget, or at least an understanding of how much money you intend to spend. To build that budget, an ideal IT procurement solution provides an overview of your inventory, including aggregate information on storage, compute, virtual resource allocation, and configuration details.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 14, 2023

The cost of keeping up Should CIOs not yet all-in on the trend budget their software development tool spend to keep pace with IDC’s growth forecasts? One key indicator on budgeting would be to weigh the cost per user for low-code platform licenses against the cost of hiring additional staff, Rosen says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

Hardware purchased with a three to five year depreciation plan or lease contracts tie up budget that could be otherwise used to move more rapidly to cloud. Software licenses. Owned hardware assets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Back in the day, when its assumptions, methodologies, and overall culture were formed, IT suffered from a serious case of ratio inversion, focusing something like 80% of its budget and efforts on the 20%, leaving 20% of its attention to help with the unstructured 80%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

If an enterprise can do more work with less hardware, using fewer servers, licenses, and people, they save money while lowering carbon emissions. Upcycling programs can help enterprise businesses manage the financial and sustainability impacts of surplus equipment. Power savings represents just part of the equation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Managing and aligning cost allocation to the business unit requires real-time visibility and reporting around cloud costs and usage, with cost allocation constructs aligned to departmental needs. Organizations must examine shared resources, storage costs, network costs, platform services, monitoring, logging, and licensing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Awareness and adoption of the Rise with SAP all-in-one package of licensing, hosting and application management is also on the up. ASUG’s survey found that 38% of respondents were familiar with Rise, compared to 23% in 2021, and only 20% had never heard of it, down from 39%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Exceeding the planned budget. seiter_daniel Often in the need of speed, we have seen clients “lift and shift” without doing any type of application dependency mapping, right sizing, licensing assessments, etc., Cloud sprawl caused by not having a clear understanding of the full scope of cloud environments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

The steps and timelines will depend on your unique environment, team, and budget. Before you put pen to paper or draw up new vendor agreements, understand that implementing a single-vendor SASE solution is a journey. You’ll get the most out of your current contract and have clear due dates to align relevant teams toward.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Today’s business climate is rife with economic uncertainty that is causing IT leaders to do more with less while still innovating to support the business. It’s a seemingly impossible dilemma: How to use innovation to drive business outcomes while being restrained by a reduced budget?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 8, 2023

Onboarding new users and licenses is simple, and cloud delivery with transparent cost structures means KBA only consumes what is needed with complete control of their budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

And that is in no small part thanks to the vision of James McGlennon, who in his role as CIO of Liberty Mutual for past 17 years has led the charge to the cloud, analytics, and AI with a budget north of $2 billion.

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Cloud Insurance Applications Data 128

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

Assess resources — and partner as necessary Successfully modernizing legacy apps starts with tackling the upfront work needed to identify the workloads and assets that will be moved to the cloud, as well as dependencies, licensing impacts, and business use cases and benefits. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2023

The steps and timelines will depend on your unique environment, team, and budget. Before you put pen to paper or draw up new vendor agreements, understand that implementing a single-vendor SASE solution is a journey. You’ll get the most out of your current contract and have clear due dates to align relevant teams toward.

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WAN Network Security Cloud 72

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2022

And that is in no small part thanks to the vision of James McGlennon, who in his role as CIO of Liberty Mutual for past 17 years has led the charge to the cloud, analytics, and AI with a budget north of $2 billion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Budgets may need adjusting,” he says. CIOs spend a lot of time determining which vendors and products to license for their departments,” Fleming says. Thriving amid uncertainty means staying flexible, he argues. . Some projects may be put on hold or canceled. Some hires may need to be postponed.

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