How will AI impact your IT budget?

As AI begins to make its way into the Enterprise, how will the experimentation, adoption and operations of AI impact 2025 and beyond IT budgets? 

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WHERE WILL IT BUDGETS MOST LIKELY BE IMPACTED BY AI IN 2025-2026?

• Is your focus on human-augmented capabilities or human-replacement capabilities? 
• If you’re buying AI as part of SaaS services, will the pricing be seat-based (human-augmented) or usage-based (human-replacement), or some combination of both? 
• Are you directly paying for AI-capabilities, or is AI being positioned as “free”, but the other services are becoming more expensive?
• Are you expanding your predictive AI projects (and data-science teams), or primarily focused on GenAI related projects? 
• Are you buying AI resources from the cloud providers, or from AI-specific hosting providers, or buying GPUs for private-cloud usage? 
• Are you planning to use standard AI tools, or do you plan to training/align your own models with your data?
• Do you have a cost-control capability for your AI projects yet?
• What are your success-criteria for POCs, Experiments, Trials? 
• Are you upskilling existing staff, or hiring AI-specific staff? Or using external consulting? 

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