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.

Budget 119

Budget Enterprise Enterprise Licensing 119

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

Pay-as-you-go” models are touted as cost-efficient but strain budgets without financial oversight diving deep into service usage vs. actual business needs. The bottom line: CFOs and CIOs need fixed costs for easier budgeting and forecasting. Meanwhile, Shadow IT and unauthorized app purchases tend to crack hidden spending leaks.

Cloud 86

Cloud Financial Budget WAN 86

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.

Fractional CTO 133

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Software 133

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

A rotating roster of employees presents challenges as well, often resulting in the abandonment of mobile devices and unused cloud application licenses. IT leaders now need to budget separately for them and keep a tighter grip on management to control any negative financial impacts.

Financial 104

Financial Cloud How To Hotels 104

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.

Backup 138

Backup Airlines Licensing Oracle 138

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.

IBM 92

IBM Cloud System Licensing 92

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.

Vendor Management 136

Vendor Management Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 136

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.

Data Center 97

Data Center Cloud Data Network 97

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.

Strategy 140

Strategy Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO 140

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.

Security 111

Security Budget Information Security Applications 111

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.

Government 59

Government How To Licensing Budget 59

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.

Tools 111

Tools Enterprise Enterprise Backup 111

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.

SAP 98

SAP Software Software Programming 98

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.

Network 105

Network Enterprise Enterprise Applications 105

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.

Software 105

Software Software Hardware Programming 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

Detailed reports can show fully loaded costs, how actual spending compares to the IT budget, and how expenses get charged back to each department and tied to innovation projects – key elements in measuring cloud ROI. They can pinpoint waste seeing where cloud infrastructure and software licenses are going unused.

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Study Cloud Programming Financial 72

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.

Applications 143

Applications Training Development Software Development 143

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.

Applications 52

Applications Enterprise Enterprise Study 52

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.

Data 98

Data Storage Cloud Resources 98

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.

Software Development 115

Software Development CTO Hire Tools Development 115

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.

Licensing 52

Licensing Analysis Security Resources 52

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.

Industry 98

Industry Data Center Energy .Net 98

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%.

Microsoft 98

Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Change Management Architecture 98

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%.

SAP 96

SAP Groups Survey Training 96

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.

WAN 98

WAN Network Security Cloud 98

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.

Disaster Recovery 105

Disaster Recovery Cloud Applications System 105

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.

Cloud 91

Cloud Resources Strategy Meeting 91

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.

Cloud 111

Cloud Fractional CTO CTO Hire Data Center 111

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.

WAN 95

WAN Network Security Cloud 95

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

And the licensing models for those solutions should be just as flexible. Flexible licensing programs that allow organizations to pay by usage have emerged as a solution to this challenge. Additionally, look for flexible licensing programs that offer a wide portfolio of solutions and services rather than one or two.

Licensing 52

Licensing Firewall Programming Data Center 52

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

Cloud 98

Cloud Fractional CTO Architecture Applications 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

With more than 18 million registered users, countless IT and finance leaders are looking to lower their Office subscription costs and reduce the number of licenses they need. Visibility into 365 licenses is difficult – But not for obvious reasons It’s easy to assume 365 is hard to manage because of its universal usage.

Microsoft 96

Microsoft Licensing How To Tools 96

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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.

Software 131

Software Software Enterprise Enterprise 131

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

Consider the expenses related to both physical and virtual assets like virtual machines and servers, physical servers, and data centers (utilities, labor management costs, software licenses, etc.). This exposes where waste occurs – linking it to overage fees, charge details, spending trends, etc.

Cloud 92

Cloud Licensing Unified Communications Applications 92

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Protective packaging firm’s profit takes a knock from ERP Packaging firm Ranpak’s SAP migration was far from a disaster — it took less than a year and was delivered on time and to budget — but nevertheless initially led to disappointing results. million they paid the software giant for licenses, professional services, and training.

SAP 128

SAP System Oracle Company 128

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

As 2024 unfolds, businesses need to ground their costs and direct budgets towards future opportunities. Software evaluates application usage data and user behaviors, flagging instances of redundant tools and unused licenses that can be reallocated to avoid unnecessary expenses.

Cloud 52

Cloud Strategy Budget Financial 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

Consider the expenses related to both physical and virtual assets like virtual machines and servers, physical servers, and data centers (utilities, labor management costs, software licenses, etc.). This exposes where waste occurs – linking it to overage fees, charge details, spending trends, etc.

Cloud 52

Cloud Licensing Unified Communications Applications 52