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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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Forrester 2019 Enterprise BI Platform Waves ™ Research Update

Forrester IT

As the BI market and the technology continue to evolve, so does our research. This year we emphasized New market segmentation by Vendor-Managed vs. Client-Managed platforms, which roughly equated to on-premise vs. cloud based platforms, but not quite. Since […].

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

Network World

New data from research firm Gartner might give IT leaders pause, however, as analysts detail the long, costly, and risky road ahead for enterprise organizations considering a large-scale VMware migration.

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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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How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI

CIO Business Intelligence

A successful agentic AI strategy starts with a clear definition of what the AI agents are meant to achieve, says Prashant Kelker, chief strategy officer and a partner at global technology research and IT advisory firm ISG. Its essential to align the AIs objectives with the broader business goals. Agentic AI needs a mission.

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Troubled Times Test Traditional Tech Titans

Forrester IT

Our research indicates a coming drought in infrastructure tech spending, so the next few quarters – likely to […]. 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.

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How AI is empowering tech leaders — and transforming procurement

CIO Business Intelligence

From streamlining workflows to uncovering actionable insights, these advancements are reshaping software sourcing and vendor management. Learn more about IDCs research for technology leaders OR subscribe today to receive industry-leading research directly to your inbox.

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