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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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TIBCO’s Acquisition Of Information Builders Signals More BI Market Consolidation

Forrester IT

The business intelligence (BI) vendor consolidation trend that started earlier in 2019 continues. It was one of the first vendors to offer reporting and analytics on mainframes! Today, TIBCO announced its intent to acquire Information Builders, Inc. IBI) — one of the oldest players in the market.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We APIs, Application Integration, Cloud Computing, IT Strategy, SaaS, Vendor Management

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO Business Intelligence

Double down on vendor management. To manage these relationships, IT organizations need robust vendor management processes , says West Monroe’s Wright. Here, metrics and governance are especially important — as is addressing issues with either promptly.

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Travelex leverages cloud-based customer data platform to boost retention

CIO Business Intelligence

CIO, Data Management, Data Quality, ICT Partners, IT Leadership, Travel and Hospitality Industry, Vendor Management “So much so that we’re now extending the project to other territories.”

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