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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization

CIO Business Intelligence

While investing in technology is key—and becoming more so—this doesn’t mean that CIO budgets won’t come under pressure, both for capital spend as well as for operations and maintenance (O&M). Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

According to IDC SaaS Path research from 2023 , 67% of businesses with more than 1,000 employees have employed a SaaS management platform, says IDC analyst Frank Della Rosa — a market category that includes a broad array of options, such as Productiv, Zylo, Flexera One, Blissfully, Torii, BetterCloud, Zluri, Apptio, and LeanIX, among many others.

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Cloud native order management boosts speed, scale and operational efficiency

TM Forum

40% decrease in licensing costs. 40% decrease in licensing costs. High operating costs, due to licensing fees, and infrastructure and operations requirements affected HT’s competitiveness. What: An urgent need to modernize an inflexible, complex order management system that was inhibiting its ability to compete.

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SharePoint Premium highlights the hard road CIOs face with generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

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%. Hyperbolic? And yes, I know, it has a lot of competition for this prize.

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Buying advice for CIOs as low-code/no-code spending rises

CIO Business Intelligence

Sales of all three of these categories of tools are growing. 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? IDC forecasts that sales of no-code platforms will grow at an annual rate of 13.9%

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Authoring Software: Features, Capabilities, How to Choose, and More

Kitaboo

Authoring software is a broad category of tools that can help you create interactive content. Today, there are many different authoring tools out there – both free and paid. Each tool has its strengths and weaknesses, but what’s most important is that you find one that works well with your workflow. What is an Authoring Software?

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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO Business Intelligence

But if you’re a department head pitching a major software expenditure to a CIO, if you’re a CIO with a limited budget trying to choose between competing projects, or you’re a CIO trying to sell a software-driven strategic initiative to the CEO or the board of directors, a strong TCO analysis is a must. What is TCO and why is it important?

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