Business Insider/Julie Bort
These are the most powerful people in enterprise tech this year.
The world will spend nearly $4 trillion dollars on technology this year, alone, with the vast majority (over $3 trillion) spent by companies on business tech, Gartner predicts.
When that much money is involved, it always creates one thing: power.
This is a list of the most powerful people in that multi-trillion dollar industry, many of them multi-millionaires, or even billionaires, in their own right.
Some are powerful because they run the biggest, baddest enterprise tech companies around. Others are powerful because they are changing the status quo, upending the business models or technologies of those powerful companies.
Others are the powerful people behind the well-known stars of this industry.