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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO Business Intelligence

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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Forrester 2019 Enterprise BI Platform Waves ™ Research Update

Forrester IT

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

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

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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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

Recent research found that application modernization took an average of 16 months. And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. It’s important to recognize that motion is not always progress.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience. Businesses are looking for tech pros with highly specialized skills, as they embrace digital transformation and increasingly rely on technology for core business.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

This may include who owns the workload; its dependencies on other applications; who authored it or what vendors are involved; security, governance, compliance, and data requirements; and special integration or location requirements. Importantly, you should also indicate the goal for the workload (e.g.,

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CIOs still grapple with what gen AI can do for the enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

Patrick Thompson, former CIO and digital transformation officer at Albemarle Albemarle But in a few short months, generative AI is beginning to take traditional AI to another level for applications like predictive maintenance. The first challenge is the lack of skills both in-house and among vendors that sell traditional applications.