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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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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Today, he says, they operate more accurately.

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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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Forrester 2019 Enterprise BI Platform Waves ™ Research Update

Forrester IT

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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Introducing The Forrester Wave: Cloud HCM Suites, 2020

Forrester IT

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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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. Relevant skills for DevOps Engineers include automation, software development, system administration skills, and cloud computing.