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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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. Besides the cost of software, they don’t anticipate the fees that crop up during some BI implementations. The same is true for Business Intelligence.

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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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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from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems.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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

CIOs benefit from the transition to the subscription model The rapid adoption of new technologies, driven by an ever-steepening technology hype curve, facilitates this shift toward more versatile business models. However, selecting reliable subscription software vendors remains critical and involves a comprehensive evaluation process.

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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. Another is to identify savings opportunities from using open-source components instead of commercial software. There are several ways to tackle this problem.

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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. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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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. ERP Systems, Professional Services

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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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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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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

of Nvidia’s enterprise-spanning AI software platform will feature a smorgasbord of microservices designed to speed app development and provide quick ways to ramp up deployments, the company announced today at its GPU Technology Conference. Version 5.0 Nvidia’s AI Enterprise 5.0 Containers, Generative AI, Microservices, Nvidia

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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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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 134

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. However, SAP’s cloud users may not be sheltered from the increases, as the company is also considering ratcheting up the price of its cloud software by 3.3%

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 21, 2022

However, it was not all good news for the German business software group. 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.”. Cloud revenue alone was up 34% to €3.1

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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?

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

Helping software developers write and test code Similarly in tech, companies are currently open about some of their use cases, but protective of others. And software code is a language.” So far, Castillo has been publishing her work with open-source licenses. And unit tests are too tedious for humans to build reliably.

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Enterprise Enterprise Banking Software Development 106

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.

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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,

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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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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. “We

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Microsoft Applications Artificial Intelligence Energy 90

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.

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Oracle How To Licensing Operating Systems 52

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. Demand for the process mining software is still strong in 2023.

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SAP Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 111

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.

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Applications Training Development Software Development 137

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2023

The goal of an automation engineer is to eliminate defects, errors, and problems with product or software development and with business or customer service processes. Automation is also used to streamline IT help desk ticketing, service management and to deliver quality products and software faster, with fewer defects.

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Engineering Software Software Devops 84

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2023

Throughout our time matching organizations with IT software that works for them , we have found some core essential features that appear necessary across most companies. Without software designed for managing change in an organization, you run the risk of losing assets, time, and money on onboarding, offboarding, and other internal changes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

To a large extent that’s on the money, as Nasdaq, which originated as a digital system for distributing market data in 1971, today owns and operates 27 stock exchanges and sells its exchange software to more than 100 exchanges globally. That’s because, says Peterson, Nasdaq’s tech stack is the best exchange software out there. “As

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Financial Banking CTO Applications 111

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. annually, IDC predicts. “On-premises

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Applications Enterprise Enterprise Study 52

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

One client cut staff earlier this year, only to discover that another part of the business needed their institutional knowledge for a strategic project. Rising software costs create headaches Another example is Ameritas Life Insurance, which has operations in the US, but the current 3.7%

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Software 124

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

Natural language processing software Whether you’re building a chatbot, voice assistant, predictive text application, or other application with NLP at its core, you’ll need tools to help you do it. Licensed by MIT, SpaCy was made with high-level data science in mind and allows deep data mining. NLTK is offered under the Apache 2.0

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Course Open Source Artificial Intelligence Training 140

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

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Budget Fractional CTO Cloud CTO Hire 136

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

Here’s what we’re bringing to VCSP partners going forward: Consistent VMware Cloud Foundation Everywhere – All VCSP partners will deliver services based on the same VMware Cloud Foundation software customers deploy on prem. One Simplified Business Model – All services offered by VCSPs will now be based on a per core subscription license.

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Vmware Cloud Programming Licensing 59

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 109

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

To do so, Nardecchia and his team sought to incorporate “digital threads” into the company’s hardware and thereby expand its business model beyond manufacturing into software-as-a-service. “We The biggest benefit to Rockwell is the same as for all providers that have moved to a subscription model: an endless guaranteed revenue stream.

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