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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. March 2010: Apotheker says he wants to transform HP from a hardware producer to a software and services provider. Enterprise Applications, HP, Mergers and Acquisitions

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Contractors and vendors should be treated like your car insurance,” says Pratt. Audit all contracts IT organizations almost always pay for more than the business actually needs for hardware, software, and networking. Billing errors, overprovisioning of licenses, and changes in capacity are other things to look for.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO Business Intelligence

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. “People better understand the charges, and [they] better negotiate costs.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Analog computing The most common paradigm for computation has been digital hardware built of transistors that have two states: on and off. The hope is that these new analog chips will use dramatically less power making them useful for any of the mobile and distributed applications on machines that aren’t always plugged in.

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What are the “true costs” of Business Intelligence?

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

You’re paying for insurance, gas, maintenance, parking, car washes, accessories, etc… If you were to dive into a car purchase without calculating these “true costs”, you’d be in for a rude awakening. You must also factor in the differences in fees and licensing structures that may impact your cost over time. Licensing type.

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Making data accessible with OCR

Dataconomy

From improving healthcare outcomes to enhancing fraud prevention in the banking industry, the potential applications of OCR technology are truly limitless. OCR systems are composed of hardware and software components that work together to transform physical documents into machine-readable text. So what does OCR stand for?

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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.

Fountainhead

Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. But so little attention is being paid to identifying & profiling which applications are best-suited to actually run in an external "cloud." of what ideal application properties pre-dispose apps for being well-suited to run in a cloud. Tuesday, May 12, 2009.

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