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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO Business Intelligence

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security.

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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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Product-based IT: 6 key steps for making the switch

CIO Business Intelligence

Product management is crucial for businesses looking to drive innovation and leverage technology as a differentiator, shared Roman Dumiak, executive-in-residence at the DePaul University Innovation Development Lab, at a recent Coffee With Digital Trailblazers event I hosted on the topic.

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Were 80 to 85% in the cloud and for us, the job is proactively tracking this spend, then educating developers and data teams on how to use cloud capabilities in a cost-effective manner, he says. But his organization developed its own model, says Mohammad. Plus, many enterprises were doing FinOps well before the term was coined.

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Vendor management for telecoms networks

Spearline Testing

For such networks, vendor management is a crucial aspect of maintaining successful operations. Vendor management. Many have developed very impressive methodologies to leverage the Spearline platform and objectively measure carrier performance. Spearline puts the power into the hands of their customers.

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Your CEO has little idea who IT is or what IT does

CIO Business Intelligence

Executives need to understand and hopefully have a respected relationship with the following IT dramatis personae : IT operations director, development director, CISO, project management office (PMO) director, enterprise architecture director, governance and compliance Director, vendor management director, and innovation director.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Weve developed our software such that the LLM open source or proprietary can be swapped in or out via configuration. Kong, which surveyed developers about their API use, found a similar balance, with OpenAI at 27%, Llama at 8%, and Mistral at 4%. It doesnt help when model developers invent new licenses all the time.