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Spooky, Scary Tales of Vendor Management

SecureWorld News

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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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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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

To do this well, IT leaders should uncover the key objectives of each stakeholder, tie those objectives back to enterprise business goals, and align everyone on common goals through top-down discussions and mandates, says Mukesh Ranjan, vice president in the IT services team at Everest Group. Are we taking advantage of cloud-native benefits?

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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. Overspending is easy to do,” says Chris McMasters, CIO at the City of Corona, California.

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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.

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Building enterprise use cases with 5G open RAN

TM Forum

The participants are exploring a new collaborative approach where multiple vendors, CSPs, and other third parties could work together to roll out a 5G open radio access network (RAN) and develop multiple enterprise use cases. Marketplace framework: Marketplace federation, billing/cost management, entitlements, and cloud provisioning.

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How CIOs reinterpret their role through AI

CIO Business Intelligence

The fact that the site or application is technically performing adequately isn’t enough because despite the good performance of the site, sales or the result of a promotion aren’t as expected,” says Deligia. The vendor provides the platforms to manage the web channel and applications, as well as the developers,” says Ridulfo.

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