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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO Business Intelligence

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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Spooky, Scary Tales of Vendor Management

SecureWorld News

Five little vendors access your data. The first one said, "For this company, vendor management doesn't seem to matta." The fourth one said, "Regulation requires vendor control." In honor of Halloween, it seems appropriate to address one of the scariest issues facing organizations today: vendor or supplier management.

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Maturity means, on one hand, that users have not only gained experience with individual dedicated cloud services, but in many cases are now also modernizing and outsourcing core applications. More than half, however, are committed to a cloud-first approach, or the preferred use of cloud services over on-premises hosted applications.

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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

Fountainhead

Implication: change management, goal changes, departmental funding changes. in larger organizations) are specialized around applications, servers, networking, backup, etc. However, in the future many of these functions will either become more automated and/or combine with (be embedded within) other service management functions.

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What to do when your IT provider vanishes

CIO Business Intelligence

In one case, it was a supplier of an application that managed a crucial activity with hospitals, which maintained support until we managed to migrate to another platform. The importance of good planning This work prior to any debacle is essential when it comes to managing it with greater success.

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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

CIO Business Intelligence

“We experienced the impact of one of our SaaS providers, OpCon, not having a solid DR [disaster recovery] plan during the MS Azure Central Region outage,” says Gary Jeter, CTO of TruStone Financial. Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes.

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CIOs still grapple with what gen AI can do for the enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

Patrick Thompson, former CIO and digital transformation officer at Albemarle Albemarle But in a few short months, generative AI is beginning to take traditional AI to another level for applications like predictive maintenance. The first challenge is the lack of skills both in-house and among vendors that sell traditional applications.