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How do you anticipate these shifts in AI pricing models will impact your organisation’s long – term software budget and vendor strategy?

How do you anticipate these shifts in AI pricing models will impact your organisation’s long – term software budget and vendor strategy?

Stop wasting budget on blanket E3/E5 licensing. Segmenting users into 4–6 personas based on actual needs typically yields 25% annual savings.

The FDE model imposes a cognitive tax by extracting domain expertise to harden vendor products. Without logic sovereignty, you subsidise your own obsolescence and risk ontological lock-in. Executives must audit logic layers now to reclaim strategic autonomy before operational exit becomes impossible. Part 1 of 3 of The FDE Trap series.