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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

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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