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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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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

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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. This requires us to also educate product managers on an ongoing basis to keep costs top of mind, he says.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, consultants get continuing education to stay abreast of new laws, or reach out to colleagues who are already experts in them. The rise of agentic assistants In addition to agents replacing software components, well also see the rise of agentic assistants, adds Malhotra. Take for example that task of keeping up with regulations.

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6 ways to streamline IT vendor onboarding

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Onboarding a vendor can also take a while if their technology doesn’t integrate. Education has standards for some forms of integration, such as data integration, which can streamline the process, according to UCSD’s Kellen. “If It just requires good planning on the company’s part to prepare the vendor for what you’re doing.”.

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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

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Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes. We also plan on expanding our ERM [enterprise risk management] evaluations to include a more comprehensive SaaS vendor’s DR to determine which platforms we need to ensure have a mitigation strategy.”

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

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Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one. We feel strongly that anything generated by AI needs to have a human review, and many of the vendors are building it that way,” she says.

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Why Ruby Life CISO George Al Koura puts people first

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I actually don’t have a formal STEM education,” he says. “I What’s interesting is I had no formal education or training on threat intelligence, and I was learning security operations in the cyber role on the fly at the time. C-Suite, CIO, IT Leadership, Relationship Building, Vendor Management

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