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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 use Microsoft Power BI, a customer experience platform to survey customers, and we review support tickets to determine where any problems may lie,” he says. “We What exactly happens if you go over and what will they charge you?”

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

CIO Business Intelligence

According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. And you have to partner with your vendors.” Here’s how.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

AI vendor management Only the biggest companies are going to build or manage their own AI models, and even those will rely on vendors to provide most of the AI they use. But in February, Meta released Llama, an open-source LLM licensed for non-commercial use, which quickly became the base for many projects.