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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

West Monroe’s Tanowitz agrees, saying, “There’s cloud spend where immature governance approaches have resulted in excess consumption that can be reduced when a holistic cloud architecture approach is taken.” As Gartner’s Buchanan says, “The challenge isn’t cost management, but realizing value from cost.”

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What is product lifecycle management? Organizing the development process

CIO Business Intelligence

It has quality management, change management, requirements management, BOM management, and project management features. It boasts an open architecture to make it easy to integrate with other enterprise systems, including IoT. PTC Windchill.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft has bought Minit, a developer of process mining software, to help its customers optimize business processes across the enterprise, on and off Microsoft Power Platform. IT asset management platform Lansweeper has acquired UMAknow, the developer of Cloudockit. NTT Data adds Vectorform to service portfolio.