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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

All Posts The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has overspent about $15 million on Oracle software over the past five years because it lacked a centralized software asset management practice, according to an audit report published by the space agency’s office of the inspector general (OIG).

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Office 365: 3 ways your organization is mismanaging licenses

Tech Republic Cloud

A new report finds that more than half of Office 365 licenses in the enterprise are inactive, underutilized, or unassigned.

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AI Weekly: TikTok’s algorithm licensing signals China’s play for AI dominance

Venture Beast

This week, TikTok parent company ByteDance began licensing parts of its AI technologies to third parties through a new division called BytePlus. The Financial Times reports that customers can pay fees to use recommendation algorithm… Read More. Register today.

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3 Ways Your Enterprise Commerce Platform Can Make You More Money

CIO Business Intelligence

Too many enterprise businesses have been held back by their commerce technology. Modern enterprises require a cost-effective, high-converting platform to outpace competitors. Modern enterprises require a cost-effective, high-converting platform to outpace competitors. It’s time to put an end to that era.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gen AI is that amplification and the world’s reaction to it is like enterprises and society reacting to the introduction of a foreign body. “We

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Startup’s 5G Blackberry revival is reportedly no more

The Verge

Plans to resurrect the Blackberry brand with a new keyboard-equipped 5G Android device have been shelved, according to reports from Android Police and CrackBerry. Development on the device was announced in 2020 by Texas-based startup OnwardMobility, after it licensed the brand name from Blackberry.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

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. In 2020, Microsoft became the first to license OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI software for inclusion in its own products and services.