Remove Analysis Remove Business Intelligence Remove Enterprise Remove Licensing
article thumbnail

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.

Licensing 122
article thumbnail

The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gen AI is that amplification and the world’s reaction to it is like enterprises and society reacting to the introduction of a foreign body. “We

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Re-Tooling Your Way to a More Efficient Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

To create a more efficient and streamlined enterprise, businesses often find themselves tempted to bring in brand new systems that promise major improvements over the status quo. 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.

Tools 110
article thumbnail

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

CIO Business Intelligence

OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. In July 2019 it became OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider and invested $1 billion in the company to support its quest to create “artificial general intelligence.”

article thumbnail

Generative AI headlines are outpacing enterprise adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite the buzz that generative AI has stirred in media and boardrooms, we believe the headlines are outpacing adoption in the enterprise. For all of generative AI’s allure, large enterprises are taking their time, many outright banning tools like ChatGPT over concerns of accuracy, data protection, and the risk of regulatory backlash.

article thumbnail

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

CIO Business Intelligence

This includes running a benchmarking spend analysis on all categories relative to industry peers, as well as leading technology companies. Double down on automation If your IT budget, and maybe your business as a whole, is under pressure in the current environment, then automating more business processes is a natural step.

Licensing 138
article thumbnail

11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to contingent labor in particular, CIOs are often paying above-market rates or engaging with a more expensive class of contractor than necessary, says West Monroe’s Tanowitz, whose analysis has revealed opportunities to save between 6% and 30%. IT leaders must be open-minded and take a fresh look at all areas of the business.”