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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.

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Gaming in 2023: What to expect from Microsoft, Sony, Amazon, Valve, Nintendo, and others

GeekWire

A similar licensing negotiation was being conducted with Smash World Tour, but it abruptly fell through Nov. The implication was that Panda had pulled strings at Nintendo to get a rival tournament canceled due to licensing, although Nintendo and Panda both deny those allegations.

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The CIO's Four Views of IT KPIs

Future of CIO

The detailed data becomes a base from which statistical analysis can be performed to do far more accurate financial budgeting projections, based on natural growth rates at a fine-grained level and capacity planning is more accurately predicted too. CIOs act as an intrapreneur, to ask self two questions: Question 1 : most important.

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- Microsoft vs Open Source

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

That wealth flows elsewhere, of course, too. On the other hand, all governments have budget pains. I got my first official budget cut memo three weeks ago (we’ve been doing actual budget cutting for at least 9 months). Well, where is our budget pressure? Yes, it is in revenues and budget dollars.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

Walk into a youth hostel or budget hotel in any exotic country around the world, and you’re more than likely to see someone reading a guidebook from Lonely Planet, the dominant global brand in budget travel. The idea of a firm’s distinctive competences and strengths of course has been central to business strategy for over a decade now.

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Gaming opportunities for investors in 2023: Generative AI, low-code, metaverse, and more

GeekWire

The quarterly analyst report on the gaming sector covers trends and issues predictions for how VC investments in video games will proceed over the course of 2023. One argument made at the time was that video games, despite a high initial cost of entry, can be a surprisingly efficient dollar-to-hour use of consumers’ entertainment budget.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Hacker Revolution Will Be Televised

ForAllSecure

Anyway, one year there was this weird hybrid of hardware and software challenge. So it's kind of in between the sort of software and hardware hardware if you listeners aren't familiar with it. But as you said, being a big budget, I don't even know the total budget for CGC. It was an interesting idea.