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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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Forrester 2019 Enterprise BI Platform Waves ™ Research Update

Forrester IT

As the BI market and the technology continue to evolve, so does our research. 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. Since […].

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Is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ready for Use in Your Multicloud Strategy?

Tech Republic Cloud

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is playing a larger role in the cloud platform services market for IaaS+PaaS solutions. Sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders should use this research to support cloud leaders as they decide which platform is best for their workloads.

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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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Travelex leverages cloud-based customer data platform to boost retention

CIO Business Intelligence

billion, according to Allied Market Research. To do so, they developed a cloud-based customer data platform (CDP) that allows them to bring in and analyze third-party data and combine it with their own data so they can flag unused balances. But to make the most of cloud, the right skills are needed. billion to $492.80

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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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Troubled Times Test Traditional Tech Titans

Forrester IT

Our research indicates a coming drought in infrastructure tech spending, so the next few quarters – likely to […]. Cisco Systems stock fell over 11% today after it delivered its latest quarterly earnings yesterday. Cisco beat street estimates, but it fell based on a 9% YoY decrease in revenue and a weak outlook for coming quarters.

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