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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the many vendors whose cloud applications make up the new tech backbone for most enterprises today, in conjunction with customized in-house apps and niche offerings across public clouds. “It It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

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. There are companies out there who think they should be writing everything because their definition of what is differentiating is so broad,” he says.

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3 lessons that CIOs learned in 2018

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Organization-wide, staff must be educated on security risks and resulting policies surrounding BYOD, printing, third-party software, remote workers, legacy equipment, vendor management, social engineering, outdated-training and security policies, and public or poorly protected WiFi. Of course not! How did we reach this point?

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What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

CIO Business Intelligence

While there is little doubt that companies have been cutting back on expenses generally in response to economic uncertainty, startups in particular have been feeling the pain of contracting budgets and reluctant investors. 10X in 10 Years – can this continue?

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