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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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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO Business Intelligence

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. Benefits of vendor management. Left unmanaged, vendor partnerships can quickly fall behind.

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Forrester 2019 Enterprise BI Platform Waves ™ Research Update

Forrester IT

Forrester has just published 2019 refresh of out Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) Platforms Waves ™. 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.

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Software vendors offer AI sales boost for retail at NRF show

CIO Business Intelligence

If software vendors have their way, the answer is likely to involve more artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Strategy, Microsoft, Predictive Analytics, Retail Industry, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

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JLR revs up AI and intelligent automation initiatives

CIO Business Intelligence

“That means we need to draw off the car, and feed into the car, lots of data from our enterprise,” he says, so at the intersection of product engineering and enterprise IT, “you’ve got an acute level of synergy in terms of cloud, software engineering standards, integration, and APIs.” It’s been a great success,” says Battle.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Businesses are looking for tech pros with highly specialized skills, as they embrace digital transformation and increasingly rely on technology for core business. Key skills for the role include resource allocation, risk and change management, quality assurance, communication, and leadership and team building.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

But guided by the framework, and the platform-first principle in particular, IT went straight for selecting two new modern platforms and adopting their processes, knowing that software came with good processes and that IT in partnership with the business units could tweak workflows where necessary.

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