AI is rewriting the enterprise software business model

Enterprise software pricing is shifting from fixed user licenses to consumption-based models (tokens, API calls, inference), forcing CFOs and CIOs to align on data governance and access controls—a move vendors call 'tollgating' that changes cost structures unpredictably.

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