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Analysis · 12 October 2026

# 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.

[Read the article on IT for Business →](https://www.itforbusiness.fr/finops-ere-post-capex-pilotage-depenses-it-108393)

## Figures cited

-   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
    
-   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
    
-   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
    
-   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.