Companies Struggle with Rising Software Upgrade Costs, Consuming 28% of IT Budgets

Enterprise software costs threaten AI investment, innovation as firms spend 28% of budgets on unwanted changes: Report

10/20/2026

Large enterprises may face growing constraints on innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) investments as vendor-driven software upgrades, migrations and licensing changes consume an average of...

Technology Org

Vendor Upgrades Eat 28% of Software Budgets

10/20/2026

An Origina survey of 2,000+ US and UK firms finds 28% of software budgets go to vendor-driven upgrades they would not have chosen.

The Straits Times

Software upgrades eat nearly a third of companies’ IT budgets, survey finds

10/20/2026

Software upgrades eat nearly a third of IT budgets, survey finds.

The Stack

Upgrade or power play? 28% of enterprise software budgets go on changes firms would not have chosen

10/20/2026

"How... do we distinguish between the legitimate costs of maintaining enterprise software and those that result from an imbalance of power?"

TechRadar

Companies are spending nearly a third of IT budgets on software upgrades

10/20/2026

Legacy tech has become something of a hot topic in recent years with AI, but while hardware and data foundations have been core to the discussion around artificial intelligence, a new Origina...