Cloud

Will Subscriptions Free Us From Software Licensing Hell? No, But There Is Hope

This article originally appeared on Channel Partners Online. There are a lot of reasons that, by 2020, more than 80 percent of software vendors will change their business models from traditional license and maintenance to subscription, according to Gartner. For ISVs, usage-based subscription models provide flexible options for software monetization, such as pay-as-you-go and concurrent […]

04.17.2018

IT-as-a-Service

3 Reasons to Pay Monthly For Technology

Power of 3 is a quick snapshot of tech knowledge delivered in three bullets allowing for consumption in three minutes or less. The technology budget in many businesses is a sore subject. Technology can be expensive, it changes all the time, and it isn’t always easy to maintain. More and more CFOs and controllers are […]

09.19.2017

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Cloud

The Role of Finance in Consuming Technology

For as long as I’ve been with Carousel, one of our main value propositions has been to offer clients options in the way they consume their technology investments. We’re always looking for a way help to them consume technology that meets their budget and cash flow needs. There are three aspects that you really look […]

09.06.2017

Financing

Guest Q&A: Important Tax Breaks for Technology Equipment

As a business leader, you’ve likely invested, or plan to invest, in technology equipment in 2017. To maximize your IT spend, we’ve outlined a quick Q&A of Section 179—an important tax benefit that helps alleviate some of your tax responsibility. What is Section 179? Section 179 is an economic stimulus in a form a tax […]

06.12.2017

Carrier Services

What’s Next? Leaders Cite Top IT Priorities for 2H 2017

Today’s IT leaders are tasked with everything from daily run tasks like patching to more strategic business initiatives like migrating data to the cloud. But how successful do they feel they are in propelling their organizations toward transformation? Carousel surveyed more than 300 New England-based IT leaders across several verticals to find out the top […]

06.08.2017

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IT-as-a-Service

The Advantages—and Challenges—of a Next-Gen IT Consumption Model

The coming rise of cloud services models—Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)—in recent years has been well documented. As an example, Statista, an online market research and statistics company, recently predicted that spending on public cloud IaaS would grow from $38 billion in 2016 to $173B in 2026. Gartner, meanwhile, projects 37 percent SaaS […]

03.16.2017