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Beyond “Prompt and Pray”

O'Reilly on Data

This approach delivers substantial benefits: consistent execution, lower costs, better security, and systems that can be maintained like traditional software. This translates to higher costs and slower response times. But beneath the surface, its a patchwork of brittle improvisation and runaway costs.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

Major enterprise software vendors are also getting into the agent game. Software development and IT Cognition released Devin, billed as the worlds first AI software engineer, in March last year. But there are already some jobs specifically in the software development lifecycle poised to be aided by AI agents.

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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO Business Intelligence

When organizations buy a shiny new piece of software, attention is typically focused on the benefits: streamlined business processes, improved productivity, automation, better security, faster time-to-market, digital transformation. It can help uncover hidden costs that could come back to bite you down the road.

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9 IT resolutions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

And ensure effective and secure AI rollouts AI is everywhere, and while its benefits are extensive, implementing it effectively across a corporation presents challenges. Kenney plans to partner with commercial off-the-shelf software providers to facilitate a proof-of-concept of their out-of-the-box functionality.

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Infor’s Velocity Summit Highlights Multiple Advances and Enhancements

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

I recently attended Infor’s Velocity Summit , designed to showcase the latest versions of its CloudSuite ERP software. The company provides industry-specific enterprise software that enhances business performance and operational efficiency. This includes customer facing, financial, supply chain and workforce software.

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Reimagine application modernisation with the power of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

As a consequence, these businesses experience increased operational costs and find it difficult to scale or integrate modern technologies. The business benefits of GenAI-driven modernisation The benefits of powering application modernisation with GenAI are clear.

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How will AI agents be priced? CIOs need to pay attention

CIO Business Intelligence

It also has the benefit that as underlying AI costs drop over time service providers can extract more margin for this work. A third way that AI agents could be priced is by calculating the underlying costs and charging a small markup, he says. Potentially good for customers, but maybe not for shareholder returns.