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

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Summary: While implementing Business Intelligence can drive revenue and save money, some businesses overlook many of the deployment and ownership costs of BI. In this article, we explore some of the “true costs” of Business Intelligence. The same is true for Business Intelligence.

Business Intelligence 61

Business Intelligence Licensing Training Software 61

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. Customers that paid for older perpetual licenses can continue to use the older vSphere versions they purchased, he said.

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Vmware Licensing Virtualization Data Center 104

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

We are accomplishing this new engagement in two main ways: Standardizing the metric for our pricing across cloud providers to per-core licensing – the same metric used in our end-customer licensing – and providing license portability for VCF. The license portability feature we have added to VCF is key to this strategy.

Vmware 102

Vmware Licensing Data Center Cloud 102

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The bad news is that many of them are net-new, meaning that the mass of customers still using its legacy ECC system, or running its modern S/4HANA system on-premises, are not migrating as quickly as the company would like to cloud offerings such as Rise with SAP , its subscription package of licensing, hosting, and application management.

SAP 125

SAP Cloud Licensing CTO Hire 125

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

Review software licenses and subscriptions Many organizations are over-licensed and oversubscribed on software, pushing costs higher than they need to be. One is to take steps to optimize subscription fees on expensive licenses by verifying the user base uses a software product or even separately licensed/subscribed features.

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Licensing Budget Cloud Artificial Intelligence 138

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

With Microsoft, for example, organisations can leverage their existing licenses, allowing them to use tools like Microsoft Defender (an antivirus solution) and Microsoft Sentinel (for threat detection and security automation). In this way, CIOs and their teams can easily extend their existing security systems to cover new AI applications.

Healthcare 120

Healthcare Data Insurance Licensing 120

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

However, sounding a caution, Mishra said, “We have also noticed that despite the numerous benefits for customers, providers still face challenges in persuading existing customers with perpetual licenses to switch to subscription-based solutions.”

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CTO Strategy Licensing Software 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.

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Backup Airlines Licensing Oracle 138

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

As a result, customers will continue to evaluate the number of licenses that they hold for Salesforce applications to ensure they are getting optimal value from the number of licenses they have,” Webber said. The increase in prices comes at a time when companies are trying to manage costs in an uncertain macroeconomic environment. “As

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Oracle Enterprise Enterprise Cloud 95

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

Some common tools include: SAS” This proprietary statistical tool is used for data mining, statistical analysis, business intelligence, clinical trial analysis, and time-series analysis. TensorFlow: Developed by Google and licensed under Apache License 2.0,

Data 139

Data Open Source Analysis Big Data 139

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. For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We

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Vendor Management Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 135

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Selling cloud software and services is good business for SAP and other software providers, since, among other things, cloud subscriptions provide a more predictable revenue stream than renewals of licenses for on-premises applications.

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SAP Cloud Licensing Software 98

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

We had third-party independent consultants come in to analyze certain systems and licensing. But in early 2018, the first major hiccup hit us as the independent party who did the audit missed the terms of use on some of our licensing. Some licenses aren’t valid if you don’t own the rights to the lower-level equipment.

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Cloud Licensing Data Center Disaster Recovery 98

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

You should no longer assume SAP is simply interested in managing infrastructure or introducing a new product repackaging and license scheme. The introduction of RISE and GROW is no different.

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SAP Licensing Strategy Cloud 116

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

is available for developers to tinker with for free as of now, and enterprise licenses can be purchased for $4,500 per GPU per year, or $1 per GPU per hour in the cloud. Nvidia’s AI Enterprise 5.0 Containers, Generative AI, Microservices, Nvidia

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Enterprise Enterprise Dell Data Center 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 21, 2022

In comments published alongside the results, SAP said this was mainly driven by “reduced contribution from software licenses revenue”, as well as “significant bad debt expenses related to the war in Ukraine.”. SAP’s IFRS operating profit was down 32% to €673 million and its non-IFRS profit was down 13% to €1.68

SAP 98

SAP Licensing Cloud Software 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

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. At issue were Autonomy’s sales of hardware and its sales of software licenses to value-added resellers rather than to end customers.

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HP Software Software Licensing 104

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“Periodic checks on your IT spending can unearth hidden costs you might not be aware of, from unused software licenses to redundant services. Billing errors, overprovisioning of licenses, and changes in capacity are other things to look for. IT leaders must be open-minded and take a fresh look at all areas of the business.”

Fractional CTO 138

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Licensing 138

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Through our subscriptions, licenses, and maintenance payments, we’ve clearly continued to invest in SAP,” he said. Cloud Management, Innovation, SAP, Software Licensing However, that investment has to yield a fair return for customers as well as shareholders.” That could be bad for SAP and its customers — although not everyone. “We

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SAP Conference Survey Cloud 116

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

Currently, the chain’s ample collection of first-party customer data as well as licensed third-party data sets are being migrated to BigQuery to apply advanced machine learning models and enhanced personalization technology to bolster sales, Gaffney says. Much of that is based on first-party data of Kohl’s customers online and in stores.

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Fractional CTO Data Licensing Retail 104

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Part of the move to Oracle’s Gen2 cloud infrastructure can be explained by the transitioning of many of the company’s Cerner health sciences customers to that platform, chairman and CTO Larry Ellison said.

Oracle 98

Oracle CTO Hire Fractional CTO Data Center 98

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The German-speaking SAP Users Group, DSAG, is unimpressed with the company’s plans: “It is trying to establish mechanisms here that increase the costs for cloud services far above inflation,” Thomas Henzler, DSAG board member for licenses, service, and support, told CIO.com.” This is absolutely unacceptable and also incomprehensible.”

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SAP Licensing Cloud Software 98

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In January 2023, Oracle changed its licensing and/or pricing for Java for the fourth time in four years. In fact, 82% of participants are concerned about Oracle’s most recent Java pricing and licensing change and 72% are considering alternative Java providers.

Oracle 52

Oracle How To Licensing Operating Systems 52

Data Center Knowledge

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

A few weeks ago, the firm unveiled its Kinetica Install Accelerator, with a one-year license for a 1 TB installation plus two weeks of personal consultation; and its Application Accelerator, with a 3 TB license and up to four weeks of consultation. Read More.

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Licensing Applications Big Data Business Intelligence 100

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

To gain that insight he monitors ongoing usage and meets weekly or biweekly with internal business leaders — and with Microsoft, the city’s primary cloud service provider, to review current and future needs. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters.

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Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO Budget 122

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

No pricing changes are in place for existing licenses. Certinia’s Spring 2024 updates and capabilities are now live and generally available, with the exception of the company’s CS Cloud offering, which is currently available on an invite-only basis until later this year. ERP Systems, Professional Services

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Comparison Resources Software Software 109

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 price rise will not affect existing product orders for business users that are under price protection licensing agreements.

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Microsoft Software Software Licensing 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

We built that end-to-end data model and process from scratch while we ran the old business. We still operated our core license and maintenance business, but we changed everything, including CRM, revenue recognition, reporting, and customer success to support the new cloud business operating model.

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Change Management Architecture Cloud Government 113

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

For example, CIOs can buy an off-the-shelf system that costs X in license fees today and 20% of X every year as long as they are using it or they could choose to build the system in a manner where instead of X they incur 1.5X For the freight transportation company, business intelligence (BI) is one area where IT can have a top-line impact. “We

Budget 138

Budget Fractional CTO Cloud CTO Hire 138

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

We leveraged lower cost licensing because of our global contracts,” he adds. There wasn’t only an overall 25 to 30% reduction in the licensing cost, but an upgrade of licenses to higher levels also,” he says. To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring. He also leveraged Heineken’s global contracts. “We

CTO Hire 113

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Licensing Enterprise 113

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.

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IBM Cloud System Licensing 96

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

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. It’s obvious that you and HANA have something exclusive going on. I need my space I’m really feeling pressured. That’s like surrendering the deed to my home so I can rent a different one from you.

SAP 98

SAP Software Software Programming 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 21, 2023

To do so, they are obfuscating reality, limiting transparency, and changing their historic business practices to make RISE appear financially superior to the traditional perpetual license models. Because of the way SAP is positioning RISE in the market, organizations must also re-evaluate their cloud strategy.

SAP 98

SAP Architecture Licensing Strategy 98

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2022

Dell devices integrated with license plate readers have already read more than 10 million license plates and identified 3% of them as concerns,” says Gladys Gonzalez, IT director for the City of Doral. From Florida to Belgium, governments share the impact of their smart city initiatives. Doral City, Florida Improves Quality of Life.

Dell 145

Dell Artificial Intelligence Intel Energy 145

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

One Simplified Business Model – All services offered by VCSPs will now be based on a per core subscription license. We are aligning our sales team with partners’ sales teams to drive go-to-market execution and help build business for the Pinnacle tier.

Vmware 57

Vmware Cloud Programming Licensing 57

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Take the everyday interactions citizens have with government agencies when, say, applying for a license or a permit, finding out information about specific services, or even completing an annual tax return. And this is just the start.

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Government Analysis Research Resources 104