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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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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

In a damning audit report , Grant Thornton has exposed how the project implementation turned into a cautionary tale of project mismanagement, highlighting critical failures in governance, technical oversight, and vendor management that continue to impact the councils core operations.

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Thinking of moving off VMware? Gartner tallies cost of large-scale VMware migration

Network World

A project to migrate from VMwares server virtualization platform could require between seven and 10 full-time equivalents for one month and up to six FTEs for nine months, the firm estimates in its report, Quick Answer: Estimating a Large-Scale VMware Migration. Related coverage Broadcom distrust drives sales for VMware competition Aug.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

Before that, though, ServiceNow announced its AI Agents offering in September, with the first use cases for customer service management and IT service management, available in November. In a report released in early January, Accenture predicts that AI agents will replace people as the primary users of most enterprise systems by 2030.

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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. With reports of all call failures and poor audio quality alerts being recorded, it becomes easy to keep track of such information and have it readily available when necessary. Why Spearline?

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Program managers in agile organizations yield timeline responsibilities to product managers collaborating with agile teams. Program managers can then have more time to focus on vendor management, financial planning, and executive-level communications.