CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2023

Microsoft 365 is the productivity engine at the heart of many SMB businesses across Australia. Having the right licenses for the applications the business needs are critical. Licensing can sometimes be complex to understand, however, which is why SMBs should make sure they’re sourcing their licenses from the right places.

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Licensing Microsoft SMB Small Business 52

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

Those benefits will accrue, whether the customer is a global enterprise seeking to leverage its digital capabilities, or a government looking to utilize VMware innovation to advance regional digital sovereignty. The license portability feature we have added to VCF is key to this strategy.

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Vmware Licensing Data Center Cloud 101

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

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. As a licensee of OpenAI’s software it will have access to new AI-based capabilities it can resell or build into its products.

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Enterprise Enterprise Microsoft Artificial Intelligence 128

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

IDC forecasts the growth rate of enterprise applications software sales will pick up in 2024, and remain steady through 2027, despite a dip this year as a result of CIOs continuing to pull back on spending due to economic headwinds. Software sales grew 9.8% of a market worth $306 billion, the study said.

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Applications Enterprise Enterprise Study 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. The cloud-first approach gives organizations a strong competitive advantage, ability to keep up with the competition, and improved roadmap for sustainable, future business growth.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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. Before deciding whether to acquire entire new systems or software, businesses should take full stock of existing systems and processes.

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Tools Enterprise Enterprise Backup 107

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Citing currency fluctuations, Microsoft is all set to increase prices of its on-premises software, online services and Windows licenses in India by up to 11%. The change will see India prices for commercial on-premises software rise by 4.5%, Microsoft said in a blog post.

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Microsoft Software Software Licensing 52

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Honestly, it’s a wonder the system works at all. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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Backup Airlines Licensing Oracle 137

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

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. Given this, the CIO should become the driver of enterprise automation. There are several ways to tackle this problem.

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Licensing Budget Cloud Artificial Intelligence 137

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

Salesforce’s decision to raise the price of its software products starting in August can be attributed to a combination of factors, including inflation and pressure to fuel revenue after a pause in price hikes during the pandemic period — issues that are affecting other major technology suppliers, analysts said. “We

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Oracle Enterprise Enterprise Cloud 94

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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. SAP has made a number of moves since then to help enterprises make the move.

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SAP Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 111

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

SAP has given CIOs another reason to consider moving to the cloud: rising support costs for on-premises software. The company will raise the cost of its SAP Standard Support, SAP Enterprise Support, and SAP Product Support for Large Enterprises contracts for existing customers from January 1, 2023.

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SAP Licensing Cloud Software 98

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available. This can be a tough sell for enterprises that bought a perpetual license for their ERP system years ago, and have the cost of maintenance indexed to that, as moving to Rise involves giving up that license and taking out a subscription.

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SAP Cloud Licensing CTO Hire 122

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

Certinia has joined the growing ranks of enterprise software vendors turning to generative AI to enhance their offerings. The considerations for providing streamlined professional software to a services-based company are very different than those involved in a more product-based company, he noted.

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Comparison Resources Software Software 107

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Fueled by strong sales of cloud-based ERP software that more than offset a decline in revenue from on-premises applications, SAP revenue jumped in the third quarter compared to the year-earlier period, according to company’s quarterly financial report, released Tuesday. SAP’s cloud and software revenue for the quarter rose 14% to €6.71

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SAP Cloud Licensing Software 98

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But for the majority of SAP’s customers, who still run older versions of its software, or run S/4HANA on premises or in hosted environments, it’s a slap in the face. Through our subscriptions, licenses, and maintenance payments, we’ve clearly continued to invest in SAP,” he said. Cloud Management, Innovation, SAP, Software Licensing

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SAP Conference Survey Cloud 114

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

We overhauled our software portfolio, our go-to-market approach and the overall organizational structure. We’ve changed how and through whom we will sell our software. Many major brands and Fortune 500 companies run their mission-critical workloads on VMware software. Please stay tuned. There’s much more to come.

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Vmware Load Balancer Cloud Software 98

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

However, in an increasingly software-centric environment, both new and legacy assets must deliver value throughout their lifecycle. Business needs first, then the lifecycle management program Your infrastructure lifecycle management program should be aligned with your organization’s growth roadmap.

Software 103

Software Software Hardware Programming 103

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When organizations buy a shiny new piece of software, attention is typically focused on the benefits: streamlined business processes, improved productivity, automation, better security, faster time-to-market, digital transformation. A full-blown TCO analysis can be complicated and time consuming.

Software 128

Software Software Enterprise Enterprise 128

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2022

IBM is six months into a massive ERP modernization, moving core on-premises systems to Power servers running in its own cloud as it upgrades them from SAP’s legacy ECC software to the cloud-ready S/4HANA. Largest business segment first. In February 2022, SAP named IBM as its first premium supplier for Rise.

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SAP IBM Cloud Software 130

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

The software I paid $5 million for was suddenly not new enough for you to take care of anymore. I poured my heart and soul into that software. A couple of times, I acquiesced and upgraded—at great expense to me—because my software was working, and I wanted to keep it supported and maintained. How do you think that made me feel?

SAP 98

SAP Software Software Programming 98

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Audit all contracts IT organizations almost always pay for more than the business actually needs for hardware, software, and networking. Periodic checks on your IT spending can unearth hidden costs you might not be aware of, from unused software licenses to redundant services.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Licensing 138

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 4, 2023

By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul After almost 30 years, Java remains the programming language of choice for large-scale enterprise applications in the cloud, on-prem, or hybrid. In January 2023, Oracle changed its licensing and/or pricing for Java for the fourth time in four years.

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Oracle How To Licensing Operating Systems 52

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 14, 2023

Faced with a long-running shortage of experienced professional developers, enterprise IT leaders have been exploring fresh ways of unlocking software development talent by training up non-IT staff and deploying tools that enable even business users to build or customize applications to suit their needs.

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Software Development CTO Hire Tools Development 111

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2024

Now, thanks to the cooperative’s tight partnership with Microsoft systems integrator Stoneridge Software, as well as Melby’s extensive technology experience, Dairyland — which was formed during the New Deal in the 1930s — has been able to experiment with and put into production some of the earliest Microsoft Azure-based LLMs, Melby says.

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Microsoft Applications Artificial Intelligence Energy 103

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets.

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Budget Fractional CTO Cloud CTO Hire 137

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

Tableau wants to make it easier for enterprise users to tell stories using their data with a set of new capabilities being added to Tableau Cloud, the new name for its software-as-a-service (SaaS) analytics platform. Analytics, Enterprise Applications, Machine Learning, SaaS, Salesforce.com

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Cloud Data Tools Government 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

What is the business transformation currently underway at Informatica? When we were taken private in 2015, we were a traditional software vendor, but the market was starting to embrace the cloud. We built that end-to-end data model and process from scratch while we ran the old business.

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Change Management Architecture Cloud Government 111

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 27, 2023

SAP said Thursday it will raise the cost of support for users of its on-premises software for the second year in a row, just days after announcing plans to withhold future innovations in its products from on-prem customers. Enterprises using on-prem versions of SAP are stuck, though, given the time it takes to move to the cloud.

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SAP Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 97

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

APRIL 25, 2024

With more than 1 billion users globally, LinkedIn is continuously bumping against the limits of what is technically feasible in the enterprise today. For the business- and employment-focused social media platform, connecting qualified candidates with potential employers to help fill job openings is core business. of a word.

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Engineering Examples Applications Data 122

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

SharePoint Premium, introduced in late 2023, just might be the worst bit of product naming in the history of software. But as everyone knows, postfixing a software moniker with “Premium” means it has a handful of features the free version doesn’t provide, ones you might care enough about to pay for. Hyperbolic?

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Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Change Management Architecture 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Yet, as organizations transform, CIOs and their teams are being asked to manage the optimal mix of infrastructure, platform, software, database, storage, and more to meet these new strategic objectives—while also creating sustained value and positioning the organization for the future. The challenge? My advice: Be proactive.

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Business Transformation Strategy Cloud Applications 103

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

While AI has steadily worked its way into the enterprise and business vernacular over many years, gen AI has not only become an abrupt and immediate force unto itself, but also an overarching AI accelerant. This is very different from traditional software, where a particular set of inputs would result in a predictable set of outputs.

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Open Source Fractional CTO Training Enterprise 98

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2023

Regardless of how people feel about automation, it’s here to stay, and companies are embracing automation technologies to streamline IT, business, development, and service processes. As automation increases, organizations across every industry are looking for automation engineers to help facilitate, manage, and oversee enterprise automation.

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Engineering Software Software Devops 98

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. They’ve found a way to put 25% increases back into the cost of software.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Software 131