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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. Allen says.

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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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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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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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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

CIO Business Intelligence

While GPT4DFCI isn’t allowed to be used for clinical purposes, as the governance committee has stipulated, it’s been reviewed by the privacy and information security teams for safety and efficacy. So people can only use GPT4DFCI for results they can personally verify, and must watch out for biased or incomplete information.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

But creating an inventory of existing workloads with key information about each one makes it much easier to make decisions on the cloud journey. This may become its own separate project, but it’s important during cloud strategy development to define what information should be collected about each workload, says Smith.

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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. As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased.