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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

Rising software costs create headaches Another example is Ameritas Life Insurance, which has operations in the US, but the current 3.7% With the move to software and platform as a service offerings, infrastructure has now shrunk to less than 10% of his overall budget. They weren’t communicating enough and it cost them a lot,” he says.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. We also review SLA with our end users and service providers, and implement policies and other customer measures based on license agreements and the capabilities of the providers,” he says.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

They can code, write poetry, draw in any art style, create PowerPoint slides and website mockups, write marketing copy and emails, and find new vulnerabilities in software and plot holes in unpublished novels. In a recent report, he estimated that gen AI software revenues will grow from $3.7 Gen AI took a few months.

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Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT

Cloud Musings

Instead of leveraging IT budgets to maintain and upgrade hardware and software, cloud allows responders to devote more IT. people helping people, not managing technology.”. Between language barriers, software integration problems and. brokerage with (vendor management and integration included) marks the.

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