{"id":1039324,"date":"2026-09-29T07:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039324"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:29:15","slug":"ai-costs-rise-firms-focus-on-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/ai-costs-rise-firms-focus-on-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"AI costs rise, firms focus on returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As AI agents move from experimentation to wider deployment across enterprise workflows, companies are increasingly focusing on whether the technology can deliver measurable returns, rather than simply demonstrating its ability to automate tasks. <\/p>\n<p>The shift comes as enterprises that initially ran isolated AI pilots and experiments seek to embed AI more deeply into core business processes such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other workflows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As AI agents move from experimentation to wider deployment across enterprise workflows, companies are increasingly focusing on whether the technology can deliver measurable returns, rather than simply demonstrating its ability to automate tasks. The shift comes as enterprises that initially ran isolated AI pilots and experiments seek to embed AI more deeply into core business processes such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other workflows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039348,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039324\/revisions\/1039348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}