Strategic Focus: How AI Changes Enterprise Software Business Cases

Executive Summary

This report is designed to help senior enterprise executives and budget-holders sponsoring enterprise software AI procurements to build a defensible, robust and comprehensive internal business case. Across the entire enterprise software landscape, vendors are integrating AI features or moving to AI-first strategies. The embedding of AI materially changes the business case for organizations, specifically the risk profile of investment, financial planning and long-term quantifiable benefits. This insights provided are grounded in Verdantix analysis and market research:

• Conversations with corporate AI leaders and technology buyers as part of the Verdantix AI Council, including findings in the Vantage AI Council: April 2026 Key Takeaways.

• The Market Insight: Rethinking SaaS Pricing Models In An AI Age report, supporting senior strategy, product and commercial leaders at enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors as they reassess pricing strategy. 

This report synthesizes relevant Verdantix research to identify how traditional software business cases are changing in the face of AI capabilities. Readers will receive actionable best practices across business case planning and governance, execution and post-procurement.