Pharma CIO cancels AI enhanced Office 365 deal as "it doesn't add value"
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Re: Pharma CIO cancels AI enhanced Office 365 deal as "it doesn't add value"
#2Whattttttt? Impossible. Surely the AI must have been adding value. A big company wouldn't just look to shove AI into something because it's trendy and fool themselves into thinking that customers would pay them for it, would they?
Also, why are we linking to some forum and not the articles?
Re: Pharma CIO cancels AI enhanced Office 365 deal as "it doesn't add value"
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#4I’d imagine the larger companies get discounts?
Re: Pharma CIO cancels AI enhanced Office 365 deal as "it doesn't add value"
#5First the inital, irrational exuberance. Along with out of control spending on anything AI.
Then the lack of financial return on investment from the initial exploratory (try everything) stages. Leading to a sizable pullback in spending across the entire ecosystem.
Then the doom & gloom (talking heads on TV; smarter-than-thou industry pundits); death of garbage start-ups (the great thinning); painful layoffs; stocks decline.
And last, given some time - very substantial, tangible value (productivity gains, new products) is realized across decades. Rinse & repeat.
Re: Pharma CIO cancels AI enhanced Office 365 deal as "it doesn't add value"
#6I’d imagine the larger companies get discounts?
they usually give it for free, so they can report to markets that there's a strong adoption, then a year or so down the road, they start charging a little bit.
Re: Pharma CIO cancels AI enhanced Office 365 deal as "it doesn't add value"
#7They gave my brother in law’s company a discount on the yearly renewal if they enabled GitHub copilot for all 5000 devs or so in the organization. Our theory was they thought all the devs would become addicted to copilot then demand the company pays for it the following renewal.
Paying for copilot did not happen.
Re: Pharma CIO cancels AI enhanced Office 365 deal as "it doesn't add value"
#8That is another way of saying: "I got scammed by Microsoft."
Re: Pharma CIO cancels AI enhanced Office 365 deal as "it doesn't add value"
#9Office features haven't increased in value since Office 2000. It's been 99% bugfixes, 1% feature evolution since then.
Re: Pharma CIO cancels AI enhanced Office 365 deal as "it doesn't add value"
#10This says more about Microsoft's execution than AI. Their bing chat is a bloated mess and while I haven't personally tried AI Office 365, I suspect it follows the same theme.
Anecdotally, I've heard demand for OpenAI's enterprise tier is ridiculous from someone working within their GMT function. I guess you can say Microsoft did a great job of hedging their bets.