Multi‑vendor AI strategies promised a new era of vendor competition and lower prices for enterprise software — but the early evidence shows the opposite: rising software bills, unpredictable budgets, and a shifting cost base that rewards cloud infrastructure owners more than application vendors...
ai adoption challenges
ai costs
ai in enterprise
cloud cost management
cloud providers
consumption pricing
copilot economics
cross-cloud hosting
egress fees
finops
governance and telemetry
modelhostingfees
multi-vendor ai
platform bundling
pricing transparency
procurement governance
roi and value realization
saas management
scaling ai value
vendor pricing strategies
