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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. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. It’s come down to earth — sometimes with an unexpected thud onto the wrong side of a company’s balance sheet. Why are we really going to cloud?

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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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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Travelex leverages cloud-based customer data platform to boost retention

CIO Business Intelligence

Acknowledging the potential this trend offers for a foreign exchange company like Travelex, Hans van der Waal, the company’s global IT director, is constantly looking for more strategic ways to unlock the power of data to service their travel card customers. But to make the most of cloud, the right skills are needed.

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JLR revs up AI and intelligent automation initiatives

CIO Business Intelligence

Battle joined JLR as group chief digital and information officer in February 2022, after a long career managing IT for a succession of oil companies. Generative AI has already made its entry into the company, with some software development teams using it in various parts of their coding schema and methodology, he says.