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Post-CAPEX era: Sopra Steria Next calls for tighter control of IT spending
Original title, in French: “Ère post-CAPEX : Sopra Steria Next plaide pour un pilotage à bride resserrée des dépenses IT”
- Publication
- IT for Business (France)
- Author
- Laurent Delattre
- Published on
- 12 October 2026 · read in the page structured data · updated on 12 October 2026
Summary
Drawing on Sopra Steria Next's CIO Compass 2026, the article describes companies entering a "post-CAPEX era" in which cloud, SaaS and above all AI make IT spending vary with usage, down to the per-token cost of agents. Mathieu Meirhaeghe, Partner at Sopra Steria Next, explains that FinOps must become near-real-time financial telemetry rather than a monthly analysis of invoices, with rolling forecasts and tracking at the level of the employee, the API call or the thousand prompts. The report cites the case of a large insurer that repatriated workloads after a cloud migration that exceeded its budget by a factor of 2.5, reducing its infrastructure costs by 65% with a ROI in fourteen months, and notes that cloud overspends averaged 23% in 2023.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
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2.5 x
Multiple of actual cost relative to the planned budget for a large insurer's cloud migration
case of a large insurer, cloud migration
« le cas d’un grand assureur ayant rapatrié une partie de ses workloads après une migration cloud dont les coûts avaient atteint 2,5 fois le budget prévu »
Source: CIO Compass 2026, Sopra Steria Next
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65 %
Reduction in infrastructure costs after repatriating workloads to a private cloud
case of a large insurer
« ce retour ciblé vers un cloud privé aurait réduit d’environ 65 % les coûts d’infrastructure associés »
Source: CIO Compass 2026, Sopra Steria Next
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14 months
Payback period for repatriating workloads to a private cloud
case of a large insurer
« avec un retour sur investissement en quatorze mois »
Source: CIO Compass 2026, Sopra Steria Next
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23 %
Average cloud spending overrun relative to forecasts in 2023
companies facing cloud overspends, 2023
« les entreprises confrontées à des dérapages cloud ont enregistré en 2023 des dépassements moyens de 23 % par rapport à leurs prévisions »
Source: CIO Compass 2026, Sopra Steria Next
Classification
- Country
- Worldwide scope
- Company size
- Large companies
- Industries
- All industries, or industry not specified · Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments
- Companies
- Sopra Steria Next (study author)
- Keywords
- finops, it governance, agentic ai, cost per token, cloud budget, cio
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to IT for Business and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.