Report: vendor-driven software changes eat 28% of enterprise IT budgets

A report by Origina and Thinkers50 finds vendor-driven upgrades, migrations and licensing changes consume an average 28% of large enterprises' software budgets. For 34% of respondents these costs contributed to slowing, pausing or cancelling AI and data programmes, and the latest forced change cost an average of $12.87 million.

• 28% of software budgets go to vendor-driven changes
• 34% of respondents cut or paused AI programmes over these costs
• The latest forced upgrade cost an average of $12.87 million
• 91% scrapped working hardware to meet vendor support deadlines