Enterprise software costs threaten AI investment, innovation as firms spend 28% of budgets on unwanted changes: Report

Mint - Oct 20, 2026

Large enterprises may face growing constraints on innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) investments as vendor-driven software upgrades, migrations and licensing changes consume an average of 28 per cent of their software budgets, according to a report by Origina published in collaboration with Thinkers50.

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