Network World

MAY 2, 2017

82% of survey respondents “strongly agree” or “agree” with the statement: "My organization is actively building a security architecture that integrates multiple individual product." This is likely part of a SOAPA (security operations and analytics platform architecture) project. Why the focus on integration and architecture?

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Network World

MAY 23, 2024

“The primary challenges include maintaining a holistic view of security controls, meeting regulatory standards across varied cloud platforms, securing data across multiple providers to prevent unauthorized access or accidental loss, and managing the architectural and operational complexity of utilizing multiple providers,” he explains.

Network 475

Network Cloud Tools Government 475

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

Contracts, audits, and SBOMs Beyond protecting enterprise architecture from dangerous updates, and dangerous software in general, there are other steps companies can take to safeguard their software supply chain, starting with selecting the vendor and signing the contract.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

“It’s often the data in these silos [that needs] to be integrated between multiple sites, multiple systems, especially in the [real-time] world that we live in today versus the more batch-oriented architecture of a decade ago.” APIs, Application Integration, Cloud Computing, IT Strategy, SaaS, Vendor Management

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Vendor Management Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 340

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

A lot of companies that did outsourcing have found themselves in a situation where they have a lot of vendor managers versus technologists. Understanding price sensitivity, elasticity, and the price pack architecture, is driving new levels of performance. That has been super powerful.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

Solutions architect Solutions architects are responsible for building, developing, and implementing systems architecture within an organization, ensuring that they meet business or customer needs. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it.

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Engineering Devops Architecture Budget 290

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2024

At the same time, it’s been possible to avoid excessive dependencies by building up or strengthening internal vendor management capacities. More than ever, their expertise and resources are being consulted when developing a roadmap, as well as planning and implementing a transformation process.

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Cloud Study Survey Applications 358

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

data, security, development, architecture) as well. To maintain the cloud-like experience for users, security must be embedded throughout the cloud-native software development and cloud architecture,” says Upchurch. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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Strategy Cloud Applications Agile 363

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

Skills such as software engineering, architecture, cloud, and program management are highly sought after as more companies explore creating both internal and external applications and solutions. Here are the 10 IT roles that have earned the biggest bumps in pay for 2023, according to salary data from Dice.

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Project Management Devops Engineering Systems Administration 350

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

Product leaders define the opportunity and problem statement, while delivery leaders establish the solution’s architecture, execution plan, and support model. Examples include: User experience specialists provide team brand, design, information architecture, and style guides.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

Three years ago, Gartner coined the term Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to describe an architecture that combines software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) with a portfolio of cloud-based security tools —including secure web gateway (SWG) cloud access security brokers (CASB), and zero-trust network access (ZTNA).

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Security WAN Policies Applications 246

Forrester IT

APRIL 3, 2025

In todays era of volatility, technology leaders will need to do more with even less. This means dusting off the cost-cutting playbook to seek out additional optimization opportunities without sacrificing your AI ambitions. Here are a few cost-cutting measures to focus on in the near term.

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Vendor Management Change Management Architecture Trends 195

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This very thin technology layer was probably one of the best things we did architecturally because it allows us to experiment with a certain model, and then switch things out if another provider has something better suited to what we’re trying to do.” This was critical across both projects.

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Real Estate Engineering Examples CTO 289

Forrester IT

AUGUST 13, 2020

Cisco Systems stock fell over 11% today after it delivered its latest quarterly earnings yesterday. Cisco beat street estimates, but it fell based on a 9% YoY decrease in revenue and a weak outlook for coming quarters. Our research indicates a coming drought in infrastructure tech spending, so the next few quarters – likely to […].

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Research System Vendor Management Change Management 488

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While I expected this exercise to confirm that consolidation is real, I was pleasantly surprised with the degree to which the CIO Tech Talk Community confirmed it – and how they are taking steps to realign their procurement and vendor management strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

The certification includes a three-day boot camp that covers topics such as technical leadership, managing hybrid and virtual IT teams, creating innovative IT solutions, IT funding and cost management, vendor management, and client services.

Project Management 328

Project Management Agile SCRUM Security 328

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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Change Management Healthcare Survey Groups 361

Forrester IT

MAY 28, 2019

Early last week, Ajit Pai, the Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced his approval of the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. This will result in a third mega-carrier in the US mobile wireless market, which is a good move for consumers like you and me. I am glad this deal will now […].

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Given the current rate of client conversion, fewer than 50% of SAP ECC customers will have completed their transformation to S/4 by 2027. Furthermore, about 13,000 ECC customers are on EHPs 0–5, with support only up to 2025 and calling for an even more urgent decision on the future of their ERP. Moreover, 90% of […]

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SAP How To Vendor Management Architecture 416

Forrester IT

MAY 10, 2022

Everything-eventually-becomes-a-service which Microsoft demonstrates by launching its own version of managed detection & response. We discuss what CISOs need to know, how it will impact the market, and what to look for next.

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Microsoft Vendor Management Architecture Trends 397

TM Forum

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The champions are the CSPs Axiata Enterprise, Dialog, Robi and Smart, which are each providing support for developing the solution architecture. Examples of proposed enterprise use cases include a video analytics or a content distribution platform bundled with 5G network slicing; and white-label SaaS services such as loyalty management.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Enterprise Insurance Network 130

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI vendor management Only the biggest companies are going to build or manage their own AI models, and even those will rely on vendors to provide most of the AI they use. Data warehouses then evolved into data lakes, and then data fabrics and other enterprise-wide data architectures.

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Enterprise Enterprise Trends Open Source 325

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

CIO, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Management, IT Leadership, Relationship Building, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers “Discover where you’re currently spending to make sure you can explain all line items, improve spending where immediate action can be taken, and monitor for continued improvement,” says McKee.

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Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO Budget 312

Forrester IT

JUNE 12, 2024

Forrester Analyst Key Takeaways from SAP Sapphire Orlando 2024

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SAP Vendor Management B2B Research 300

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

When assessing vendors, Rich Products looks at their technology, architecture, business value, and pragmatic perspective. We look at the vendor’s maturity and if they have proven success in the right focus areas for our business,” he says. “But the reality is many of these companies are still in the early stages.

Fractional CTO 328

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Training Enterprise 328

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Last year, as many CIOs ramped up for their first round of Scope 3 reporting, gen AI found its way into virtually every office. Sometimes it came in through the front door, but in most cases, it seeped in quietly, as knowledge workers experimented with it to write documents and email without necessarily admitting they were doing so.

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Energy Training Guidelines Report 272

Forrester IT

APRIL 22, 2021

Earth Day 2021: A small change makes a big difference Ahead of Earth Day 2021, I recently watched the excellent David Attenborough documentary “The Year Earth Changed”. The most encouraging message is that even a small change in our habits can make a big difference to our planet. Within the first weeks of lockdown, with […].

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Vendor Management Architecture Strategy Trends 293

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2023

What is difficult is seeing what fits the specific logic of your particular industry, and what fits the architecture and what can scale.” Artificial Intelligence, CIO, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers “Inventing new innovative things in a lab environment isn’t that difficult.

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Analysis Artificial Intelligence Airlines Vendor Management 130

Forrester IT

JULY 13, 2021

I believe that GLaDOS (the evil AI from the Portal video game franchise) may have been trying to make a point about the state of security with her song “Still Alive.” The fictional, artificially super intelligent computer system from Portal once sang, “…But there’s no sense crying over every mistake.

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Tools Video Security System 284

Forrester IT

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Buyer demand for greater value from insights and technology such as RPA, data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics are forcing both classical BPO and omnichannel BPO vendors to retool themselves into insights-driven BPO's.

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Data Vendor Management Artificial Intelligence Big Data 284

Forrester IT

APRIL 10, 2023

Plan Now for Major Changes to Oracle Java Licensing Costs Oracle has again changed licensing rules for its widely used Java product. On Jan 23, 2023, the company introduced a new license metric, the SE Universal Subscription. It offers all the benefits of the legacy Java SE subscription, plus universal use rights (desktop, server, and […]

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Licensing Oracle Company Vendor Management 195

Forrester IT

DECEMBER 18, 2022

2023 will be a challenging yet exciting year for Indian enterprises. On one hand they will face global economic headwinds yet on the other they will see a better domestic demand. They must face these challenges head-on and focus on re-innovating their IT core to be able compete globally. Indian companies must get out of […].

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Enterprise Enterprise Company Vendor Management 195

Forrester IT

MAY 17, 2022

These new solutions offer a vehicle for closer, more intentional relationships with the vendor's partners. This blog explores the top four benefits, as heard from the CRM vendors we spoke with. More and more enterprises are opting for industry CRM solutions over its horizontal counterpart.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has 20 years’ experience in IT strategy, architecture, implementation, and governance, and is a qualified Chartered Accountant with a certification in contemporary business analytics practices from IIM Kolkata. Previously, he was head of IT at PNB Housing Finance Ltd., Nitin Mittal joins Zee Entertainment Enterprises.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Banking 246

Future of CIO

MARCH 12, 2014

It will mean that the enterprise view, customer contact, GRC and vendor management are the most important elements of an IT organization. In this regard, digital IT should gain more strength as an innovation engine and governance champion. IT organizations need to focus on value and capability building.

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Strategy Vendor Management Cloud .Net 45

Future of CIO

AUGUST 10, 2014

Business Management- Projects, Innovation, Demand c. Sourcing, Vendor Management, and Control d. Data, Process, Architecture, etc f. This should give a clear idea about the maturity of IT function (Sourcing Unit, Order Taker, Solution Provider, Innovation Partner) - A CXO survey could help at this stage. (3)

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Government Resources Enterprise Enterprise 49

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In an era marked by heightened environmental, social and governance (ESG) scrutiny and rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, the integration of actionable sustainable principles in enterprise architecture (EA) is indispensable. For those working within or alongside EA, these concepts are well-established pillars of the discipline.

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Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Energy 306