Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse

<p>Enterprise-sized businesses spend, on average, 28 percent of their software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing changes. Often, those firms' IT heads think those changes are detrimental.</p> <p>Those results are according to a survey of 2,018 chief information officers and senior IT decision-makers at companies with at least 10,000 employees that Origina commissioned for its report, “<a href="https://www.origina.com/guides-and-reports/software-tax-enterprise-software-costs?utm_source=software+tax&amp;utm_medium=media&amp;utm_campaign=press-release">The Software Tax</a>.” About half of the respondents (1,011) are from the US, and the rest are from the United Kingdom. All respondents worked at companies with at least $1 billion in annual revenue.</p> <p>Keep in mind that Origina provides maintenance for various enterprise software. Its report points to independent software maintenance as a way for IT leaders to regain control over software budgets, illustrating its potential bias. A third-party research consultancy, <a href="https://censuswide.com/who-we-are/">Censuswide</a>, conducted the survey.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/10/survey-enterprises-waste-28-percent-of-software-budgets-on-unwanted-upgrades/">Read full article</a></p> <p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/10/survey-enterprises-waste-28-percent-of-software-budgets-on-unwanted-upgrades/#comments">Comments</a></p> Reference : https://ift.tt/056PsfD