Over the past five years, CIOs have increasingly become business managers who are maniacally focused on controlling costs. They have had some great achievements. For example, one of our large utilities customers has been able to cut their IT budget by more than 20 percent in two years. They did so while also enabling faster onboarding for newly acquired companies and making the most of their data center consolidation efforts, application portfolio analysis, service desk convergence, and heavy automation at all levels.
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