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Plan Now for Major Changes to Oracle Java Licensing Costs

Forrester IT

Plan Now for Major Changes to Oracle Java Licensing Costs Oracle has again changed licensing rules for its widely used Java product. On Jan 23, 2023, the company introduced a new license metric, the SE Universal Subscription.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Instead, in working across Azure, “we use some proprietary solutions that we licensed and then do very simple coding,” he says. For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We

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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

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.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

They just pass on all those increases in areas such as layers of licensing, management of the software stack, and their infrastructure services. And you have to partner with your vendors.” Budgeting, CIO, Digital Transformation, IT Leadership, IT Skills, Outsourcing, SaaS, Salaries, Software Development, Vendor Management

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Three Aspects of Digital IT Assessment

Future of CIO

It also includes IT vendor cost such as monthly service expense, license cost, purchasing cost,e etc, as well as people cost such as salary, training investment, or other incentives., Making a fair IT potential assessment is about how IT spend more resources doing more with information and building differentiated business competency.

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Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT

Cloud Musings

brokerage with (vendor management and integration included) marks the. needed, without the concern of paying for licenses that won’t be used. servers or acquiring licenses. Because cloud computing can be provisioned on an as-needed basis, solutions can be built in advance and turned on when necessary, either.

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