Global
By Subir Grewal, Global Head, AWS Practice – Ness Digital Engineering
By Maysara Hamdan, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS
Imagine the following scenario: a business unit could save the enterprise $15 million a year in proprietary database licensing costs by migrating to open-source databases. The cost of migration is estimated at under $10 million, providing positive return on investment (ROI) within eight months.
Nevertheless, the business unit will not fund this migration. Why not? The licenses are paid for from an enterprise-wide pool, whereas the cost of migration would have to be funded by the business unit out of its own IT budget. This is a prime example of organizational misalignment.
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