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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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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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8 enterprise web application development trends to watch in 2020

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

So, where is enterprise application development headed in the coming year? photo credit: lakexyde via pixabay cc It’s an exciting time in the world of enterprise application development. These days, enterprise web application development is: Rapidly evolving : Web application development is going through major changes.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

A move that is likely to unlock similar investments from competitors — Google in particular — and open the way for new or improved software tools for enterprises large and small. In 2020, Microsoft became the first to license OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI software for inclusion in its own products and services.

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Microsoft study: 75% of knowledge workers using AI at work, nearly doubling in six months

GeekWire

This finding also plays into Microsoft’s hands, as the tech giant seeks to upsell its business customers on the notion of adding premium AI capabilities to their existing software licenses. One new feature offers to autocomplete AI prompts as a user is typing them, and another can rewrite prompts to make them more effective.

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SAP to buy LeanIX to advance process optimization with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud. We believe enterprise architects are no longer living in an ivory tower,” said Christ.

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IBM adopts ‘Rise with SAP’ for internal ERP cloud move

CIO Business Intelligence

Rise with SAP is an all-in-one subscription offering from SAP , under which the software vendor takes on the hassles of software license management and coordinates the activities of cloud providers and systems integrators chosen by its clients. Work on it began in late 2021, a few months before Breakthrough was announced.

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