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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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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.

Cloud 105
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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. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Clouds Transformation: The Softer Side. CIO roles will shift to governance & vendor management (perhaps even modeling supply-chain management). cloud architect) will become the norm. Cloud Computing. (55). Fountainhead.

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Never miss a payday again

Dataconomy

AI and ML manage to touch our business life with AP automation systems. This transformational tool has gained significant traction across industries, promising streamlined processes, enhanced accuracy, and unparalleled control over financial operations.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

trillion in 2021, according to financial market data provider Refinitiv. NetApps has agreed to buy Instaclustr, a service provider supporting open-source database, pipeline, and workflow applications in the cloud. NetApp buys Fylamynt for cloud ops automation. billion for Activision Blizzard, dwarfing the $28.3

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Nutanix acquisition rumors highlight need for managing vendor risk

CIO Business Intelligence

After all, many of the software vendors you rely on for point solutions likely offer cross-platform or multiplatform products, linking into your chosen ERP and its main competitors, for example, or to your preferred hyperscaler, as well as other cloud services and components of your IT estate.

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