Forrester IT

JANUARY 13, 2020

How can enterprise buyers gauge if their vendor partner has a robust internal strategy and thus […]. These questions are as fundamental for every organization as it is for every individual personally. Trusting a company is even more critical from a buyer perspective.

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Strategy Enterprise Enterprise Company 293

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

FinOps finally became ubiquitous across the enterprise landscape last year with 75% of Forbes Global 2000 companies now all-in, according to IDC. Were moving FinOps practices into larger scopes of vendors, says Jennifer Hays, SVP and head of engineering excellence and accessibility at Fidelity Investments.

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Cloud Tools Engineering Financial 300

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization. Generative AI is also poised to dramatically speed up the whole process, says Rajib Gupta, senior director advisor in Gartner’s IT sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

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Strategy Agile Applications Software 351

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

AI is being used in other ways in the enterprise as well, to do things like improve the efficiency of the supply chain, facilitate customer interactions, and help employees perform office tasks. The first challenge is the lack of skills both in-house and among vendors that sell traditional applications.

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Enterprise Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Training 328

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gen AI is that amplification and the world’s reaction to it is like enterprises and society reacting to the introduction of a foreign body. “We

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Enterprise Enterprise Trends Open Source 325

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

Dan Roberts: What can you tell us about your mission for Digital Technology Solutions, and the strategy thats laying the foundation for transformation at Kimberly-Clark? Part of our DTS strategy has involved realignment, with about 200 members of my central team re-focusing to be more aligned with the business functions.

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Strategy Tools Data Programming 279

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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Vendor Management Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 340

Network World

MAY 23, 2024

Multicloud network management poses significant challenges, primarily due to the inherent complexity and scale of handling diverse cloud environments, Wasim observes. Organizations adopting multicloud strategies often grapple with managing different technologies, architectures, and vendors across various cloud providers,” he explains.

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Network Cloud Tools Government 477

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2024

What happens when a supplier goes under The disappearance of a company that supplies technological assets to your enterprise can present huge challenges, especially if it has supplied a significant part of the infrastructure. So too are robust vendor management practices.

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Business Continuity Vendor Management 306

Forrester IT

OCTOBER 20, 2020

My colleague Joe Stanhope and I have previously written about how The Future Of Enterprise Marketing Technology hinges on marketing alignment with customer experience (CX) strategies. But brands must Align Strategy And Technology To Deliver Next-Gen Personalization, and […].

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Strategy Enterprise Enterprise Vendor Management 274

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

If the CrowdStrike outage underscored anything for CIOs, it’s that modern enterprises are dependent on a growing number of interconnected systems, any one of which can cripple business operations beyond CIOs’ control. Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes.

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Backup Disaster Recovery Business Continuity CTO Hire 325

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is a technology leader hired on a temporary or part-time basis, explains Peter Kirkwood, corporate strategy leader at management consulting and strategy advisory firm Zinnov. It’s not uncommon for a middle-market enterprise to operate without a CIO, Hartman says. What does a fractional CIO do?

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How To Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 304

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. Last June, for example, Dun & Bradstreet launched D&B.AI

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Resources Vendor Management 312

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That means we need to draw off the car, and feed into the car, lots of data from our enterprise,” he says, so at the intersection of product engineering and enterprise IT, “you’ve got an acute level of synergy in terms of cloud, software engineering standards, integration, and APIs.” It’s been a great success,” says Battle.

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Artificial Intelligence Engineering Business Transformation Software Development 320

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

Cybersecurity strategies for years have been grounded in protecting the perimeter of the corporate network. No company has the luxury of containing the enterprise IT environment within its four walls anymore. Transitioning to a full SASE environment is a long process for large enterprises. By Paul Gillin.

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Security WAN Policies Applications 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2024

It emerged that there are major gaps in cloud cost management and optimization (CCMO) strategies, resulting in exceeded budgets and an overall loss cloud spend control. Overspend in cloud deployment Money wasted on an untargeted cloud strategy has serious consequences to the enterprise.

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Cloud Budget Architecture Survey 328

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. For example, strategy building skills enable IT teams to unlock new business opportunities.

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Change Management Healthcare Survey Groups 361

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

But whether you’re on the management track or have your eye on an IT management career, any one of these 20 IT management certifications should help give you a leg up in the industry. This certification will show you’re capable of dealing with any security threats, and well-versed on the requirements for IT governance.

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Project Management Agile SCRUM Security 328

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. But it’s a long-game strategy: That cycle can take 10 years to play out, he says.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Software 334

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2023

Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.” This tends to be driven by a position-based negotiation strategy.”

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Vendor Management Groups Agile Examples 290

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

With technology now a pervasive enabler of all aspects of the business, CIOs have the end-to-end visibility and cross-functional insights that other executives lack, not to mention oversight of key enterprise assets such as data and analytics. “We

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Hotels Real Estate Financial Business Transformation 364

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The global standard at lightning speed Based in Dublin, Ireland, Accenture specializes in digital, cloud, and security technology strategies, consulting, and operations, serving more than 40 industries in more than 120 countries. The lengthy process slowed feedback on solution design, as well as delivery times on changes.

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SAP Meeting Vendor Management System 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

FinOps is part of the equation, but from a CIO perspective, you need a top-down view that starts with the strategy before you talk about the components of it,” McMasters says. For CIOs, that means building strong relationships with the C-suite and business unit managers so they can plan for and optimize cloud spend, says McMasters.

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Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO Budget 312

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Chandegara has over 20 years’ experience in managing IT and communication systems. He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. February 2022. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Banking 246

Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

NVIDIA just announced it plans to acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank Group for $40B. The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and thus, Intel and AMD). The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie in […].

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Data Center Architecture Intel Groups 510

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

Forrester IT

MAY 17, 2022

More and more enterprises are opting for industry CRM solutions over its horizontal counterpart. 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.

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Industry Enterprise Enterprise 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

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What’s going to happen, then, if that point solution is acquired by another vendor — perhaps not your preferred supplier — and integrated into its stack? We’ve already seen what happened when HPE bought hyperconverged infrastructure vendor SimpliVity back in January 2017. Mergers and Acquisitions, Risk Management, Vendor Management.

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IBM Vmware Dell Vendor Management 130

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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Wireless Mobile Unified Communications LAN 398

The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 16, 2021

You can start pulling ideas out of those conversations and shaping the strategy from one meeting to the next. With your roadmap and strategy already on the intranet, your committee will be able to start prioritizing projects right away. You can use the synergy targets as an opportunity to develop a vendor management capability in IT.

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Meeting Strategy Vendor Management Government 130

SecureWorld News

MAY 3, 2023

CISA urges organizations to incorporate the Covered List into their supply chain risk management efforts," CISA notes. Here are some comments on the alert from cybersecurity vendor experts. Contractual agreements with vendors should address security requirements and hold them accountable for their supply chain security.

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Vendor Management Open Source Security Network 98

Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

This is do-more-with-less in enterprise technology. Jackson, NJVC Vice President and General Manager, Cloud. Services is a leading voice in federal and commercial cloud strategy. brokerage with (vendor management and integration included) marks the. integrator with expertise across the enterprise.

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Cloud Budget Applications Tools 182

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

Future of CIO

APRIL 9, 2013

High Mature IT to Engage Business If the information is the enterprise’s lifeblood, technology is like business’s neural system, and then, centralized IT is like the enterprise body’s heart or brain, it’s hard to imagine it’s less important, as IT now touches every corner of the business.

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Government Enterprise Enterprise Vendor Management 56

Future of CIO

MARCH 12, 2014

Digital IT should add more strategic advantage : IT can either make or break a company, IT strategy now becomes an integral component of business strategy, as more often than not, technology is the driver for business innovation. In this regard, digital IT should gain more strength as an innovation engine and governance champion.

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Strategy Vendor Management Cloud .Net 45

Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

It will mean that the enterprise view, customer contact, GRC and vendor management are the most important elements of an IT organization. Transparency can help IT leaders tell a story of the journey from current state to future state, of improvements, of accomplishments, of enablement with business strategies, etc.

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Enterprise Enterprise Vendor Management Strategy 40