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17.07.2026

Stop Blaming the Cloud for Your Cloud Bill  

Expected reading time: 10 minutes The Savings Myth That Won’t Die:   No CFO has ever been surprised by a data centre bill going up 40% in a quarter. Plenty have been surprised by a cloud bill doing exactly that. The infrastructure changed. However, the discipline around it didn’t keep up, and that gap is where the money […]

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14.07.2026

Microsoft’s new fiscal year. Fresh targets on their side. Are you ready on yours?

Expected reading time: 10 minutes Microsoft’s AI Heaven Microsoft’s AI portfolio, Copilot, Agent 365 and the M365 E7 stack, represents a clear productivity leap. License it now, get ahead of the curve, and the ROI will follow as adoption matures. Your renewal is the right moment to make that move. What We Actually See on […]

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15.06.2026

How AI Licensing Exposes (And Closes) The Gap Between SAM And FinOps

Expected reading time: 10 minutes Can AI Be Managed Like Software? AI is moving fast — but organizations believe they already know how to manage it. The tools come from familiar vendors, integrate into existing platforms, and are contracted in ways that resemble traditional software. On the surface, nothing fundamentally changes. So, the response is […]

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20.05.2026

When the World Moves, Your IT Vendor Strategy Must Too

Expected reading time: 10 minutes In a previous article, Vendor Complexity Is Not a Scale Problem. It’s a Governance Failure, we argued that vendor ecosystems don’t become complex because of scale alone. Decisions accumulate without a governing structure. That creates complexity. The real problem? Poor lifecycle control, unclear ownership, and weak vendor design. That article […]

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22.04.2026

The Dangerous Illusion of SaaS Compliance

Expected reading time: 10′ There’s a persistent myth in enterprise IT that moving to SaaS solves the license and usage monitoring headache. After all, isn’t the whole point of software-as-a-service that you pay a subscription, log in, and use it? No more sprawling license agreements, no more audit letters, no more compliance anxiety. The vendor […]

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13.04.2026

FinOps: Building The Bridge Between Engineering And Finance.

Expected reading time: 10′ FinOps doesn’t fail because of a lack of tools, it fails because no one truly owns the cost of engineering decisions. As organizations accelerate their adoption of public and hybrid cloud, they unlock unprecedented flexibility. Engineers can deploy, scale, and optimize infrastructure in minutes. What used to be long-term, predictable investments […]

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Leadout - Vendor Management

02.04.2026

Vendor Complexity Is Not a Scale Problem. It’s a Governance Failure

Expected reading time: 10′ IT leaders often express the same frustration: “Our vendor ecosystem is out of control. If we just increase or decrease the number of vendors, we’ll regain clarity and control.” This view is understandable — but fundamentally flawed. Many organizations still believe vendor maturity comes from the number of vendors they have. […]

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