A Censuswide survey of 2,018 CIOs and senior IT decision-makers in the US and UK, commissioned by Origina, found organisations spend nearly $13m on supplier-driven upgrades, with 28% of enterprise software budgets going toward upgrades, migrations and licensing changes they did not choose to make. The findings, published in Origina's 'The Software Tax' report with Thinkers50, show 78% of respondents say their primary vendor sets the timing and terms of change, 76% report little negotiating leverage, and 80% say switching suppliers would cause major disruption.
it.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-25
A survey of 2,018 CIOs and senior IT decision-makers at firms with over 10,000 employees and $1 billion-plus revenue found that enterprises spend an average of 28 percent of software budgets on vendor-driven upgrades, migrations, or licensing changes. Ninety-five percent said their organization paid for a change in the past three years that it believed would reduce performance, reliability, or business value, and 53 percent said this happened more than once. The report, titled 'The Software Tax,' was commissioned by Origina, a company that sells independent software maintenance services, and conducted by Censuswide.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-21
Seagate Technology's 2026 Data Infrastructure Readiness Report, based on a survey of 2,712 enterprise IT decision-makers across seven countries, found that 99% expect AI to increase storage needs over the next three years, with nearly a third anticipating growth exceeding 50%. Yet only 38% of organizations feel their infrastructure can actually keep pace with that demand.
zdnet.com
· 2026-09-18
A new Madrona Venture Group survey of 150 enterprise IT professionals finds that most companies review their AI vendor choices twice a year or continuously, rather than locking into multi-year deals as they did with traditional SaaS. The report also shows fewer than half of enterprise AI pilots reach full production, though that marks an improvement over MIT's earlier finding of a 95% failure rate.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-03
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