When It Comes To AI Spend Management, CIOs Are Not Alone
CIODIVE, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
FinOps teams are tackling the difficult nature of AI spend to help tech chiefs get costs under control, analysts said during Flexera's FinOps Forward 2026 event.
CIOs are looking for ways to manage AI's costs and proliferation - and they're not alone.
Nearly all enterprise FinOps teams, which emerged as a cloud management discipline, now manage some aspect of AI spending, with outcomes and ROI increasingly replacing cost savings and optimization as a measurement of success, according to Jay Litkey, SVP of cloud and FinOps at software company Flexera.