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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

We’ve never had a technology touch everyone so rapidly.” Embedded AI Embedding AI into enterprise systems that employees were already using was a trend before gen AI came along. The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight. Then gen AI came out.

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Still Dreaming of the Paperless Office?

CTOvision

Only 17% of respondents said they work in what can be described as a paper-free office. A staggering 40% still use paper for filing “important stuff”, and 56% are wedded to signatures on paper for contracts and order forms. Instigate workflow from within ECM/SharePoint systems or use an add-on BPM platforms, for example.

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