CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Then in November, the company revealed its Azure AI Agent Service, a fully-managed service that lets enterprises build, deploy and scale agents quickly. Major enterprise software vendors are also getting into the agent game. Weve developed our own agentic AI for code management, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre.

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Forrester IT

MAY 5, 2020

For companies looking for short-term cost reductions during the economic slowdown, negotiating lower prices on software contracts with vendors can provide much-needed relief.

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Forrester IT

JULY 14, 2020

As I work on updating Forrester’s tech market forecasts for the US and the world, I have been struck by the disconnect between how I see the software market outlook and how vendors and investors see it. In my forecast work on the tech market over the past two decades, I have found a generally […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2025

Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation. Open source: This is an expanding offering in the industry and enterprise architecture stack beyond software, with huge potential.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2024

If software vendors have their way, the answer is likely to involve more artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Strategy, Microsoft, Predictive Analytics, Retail Industry, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

Sometimes, though, it sneaks in through the back door as a result of ad-hoc individual or departmental initiatives — or even through the front door, bundled by the vendors of enterprise applications already in widespread use. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Generative AI, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

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Forrester IT

APRIL 22, 2021

I cite several examples, both from large SVM software suite vendors and from […]. It explains why AI was relatively slow to reach the procurement function, and also what changed to belatedly power a wave of innovation.

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Forrester IT

JULY 29, 2019

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. Forrester has just published 2019 refresh of out Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) Platforms Waves ™. Since […].

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

A challenge for some enterprise adopters, however, is a lack of control, as some SASE technologies rely on a vendor managing data in the cloud. The network security vendor unveiled a sovereign SASE technology that it says will provide organizations with more control than a typical SASE deployment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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. Prioritize user engagement, time to value, and retention.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 23, 2024

After a challenging 2024, two themes will dominate the enterprise software market in 2025: trust and value. Learn more in our 2025 predictions for enterprise software.

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Network World

APRIL 15, 2025

Enterprise network infrastructures have evolved significantly alongside the rise of cloud computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and AI. Singtel addresses this through the Multi-Vendor Managed Services (MVMS) as part of the Singtel CUB portfolio.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

Large software vendors are used to solving the integration problems that enterprises deal with on a daily basis, says Lee McClendon, chief digital and technology officer at software testing company Tricentis. All the major software vendors are putting it into their products, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Weve developed our software such that the LLM open source or proprietary can be swapped in or out via configuration. Llama 3 has a proven use case for providing an understanding of software and how it correlates with other lines of code, he says. For example, he says, Metas Llama is very large, which impacts inference time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As a CIO, its likely that this year, your IT team is moving quickly from evaluating and deploying discrete third-party AI software packages, to integrating custom AI agents throughout your client-facing and internal business applications for even further automation and productivity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 11, 2025

The IT department uses Asana AI Studio for vendor management, to support help-desk requests, and to ensure its meeting software and compliance management requirements. Customer service: A target agentic AI use case One area that might be ideal for agentic AI is customer service.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

We couldnt find a tool to manage that, so we wrote code to integrate AWS billing with our financial systems, Khrimian says, adding that the team continues to build all of its reporting dashboards and forecasting tools. And a few vendors have early releases.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

Skills such as software engineering, architecture, cloud, and program management are highly sought after as more companies explore creating both internal and external applications and solutions. Relevant skills for DevOps Engineers include automation, software development, system administration skills, and cloud computing.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Five little vendors access your data. The first one said, "For this company, vendor management doesn't seem to matta." The fourth one said, "Regulation requires vendor control." In honor of Halloween, it seems appropriate to address one of the scariest issues facing organizations today: vendor or supplier management.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2024

Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one. For many companies, an employee’s main interaction with gen AI will come through the enterprise and productivity software they’re already using. Dana-Farber was no exception.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2024

But according to IT and business managers, the modernization of application platforms is still anything but a sure-fire success when it comes to transforming workloads into the cloud. Old legacy applications and proprietary software silos are still seen as major obstacles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

It’s a role that typically requires at least a bachelor’s degree in information technology, software engineering, computer science, or a related field. Relevant skills include Java, JavaScript, organizational and leadership skills, technical knowledge, project management, and architecture design.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 14, 2023

In 2023, the tech sector is seeing shrinking growth, pressure on profits, and price hikes. Understandably, there are a lot of questions around what these price changes mean, and how contract negotiations should be approached amidst this uncertainty.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Rising software costs create headaches Another example is Ameritas Life Insurance, which has operations in the US, but the current 3.7% With the move to software and platform as a service offerings, infrastructure has now shrunk to less than 10% of his overall budget. They weren’t communicating enough and it cost them a lot,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2022

These techniques are usually lower cost than RESTful APIs that are popular with classic ERP vendors. Getting vendors to adopt the most modern techniques and (using) standards streamlines the onboarding process,” he said. It just requires good planning on the company’s part to prepare the vendor for what you’re doing.”.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 15, 2021

More precisely, it gained 80% of VMware, making the software dynamo a mostly autonomous company in the Dell Technologies family of companies. When Dell Technologies completed it acquisition of EMC in 2016, it gained a sweetheart of an asset: VMware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As a result, software supply chains and vendor risk management are becoming ever more vital (and frequent) conversations in the C-suite today, as companies seek to reduce their exposure to outages and the business continuity issues of key vendors their businesses depend on.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

From streamlining workflows to uncovering actionable insights, these advancements are reshaping software sourcing and vendor management. AI everywhere: Transforming procurement Weve entered the era of AI everywhere, where generative AI (GenAI) technologies are transforming the way businesses operate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

But guided by the framework, and the platform-first principle in particular, IT went straight for selecting two new modern platforms and adopting their processes, knowing that software came with good processes and that IT in partnership with the business units could tweak workflows where necessary.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

Cloud cost visibility, cost insights, cost governance, defining a cloud baseline infrastructure and vendor management are essential components of a comprehensive cloud financial management strategy. This article was made possible by our partnership with the IASA Chief Architect Forum.

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Forrester IT

MAY 19, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, the majority of global software decision-makers were dissatisfied with their existing Human Capital Management (HCM) products and were evaluating other products. With COVID-19, this dissatisfaction is now acute and digital workforce transformation has accelerated.

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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 is particularly important for as-a-service contract renewals.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Supplier Value Management platforms is a critical enterprise software category enabling enterprises to implement their source-to-pay processes. Enterprises seeking a system of record for all supplier spend and supplier information are busy unbundling ERP and other “procurement” tools such as Excel, and embracing SVM platforms.

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Network World

MAY 23, 2024

“The main characteristics of a multicloud network management platform should include unified management, automation, standardization, visibility and monitoring, security, vendor management, training and skills development, and continuous optimization.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

Nearly all new software functionality is now deployed as a service (SaaS) that people access from a multitude of locations and devices. The approach also speeds time-to-market, since vendors can deliver – and users can implement – individual components faster, and thereby realize more immediate results. “A

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Yet, Accenture had a dependable, long-term partner in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software pioneer SAP, first adopting the company’s solutions in 2004. The lengthy process slowed feedback on solution design, as well as delivery times on changes.

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