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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

CIO Business Intelligence

Facing the possibility of an economic recession, one of the world’s leading professional services companies felt the urgency to improve its grasp on spend management – the practice of fully understanding and managing supplier relations and company purchasing. With 738,000 employees and $3.8 With 738,000 employees and $3.8

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CIO profile: Cyient’s Pallavi Katiyar on why it’s important to bet on people

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Over the past 22 years, Katiyar has worked in different domains, technologies, and industries, and that has opened up a lot of avenues for her, from coding and product design to running large RFPs and SAP implementations. In this interview with CIO India, Katiyar talks about her management philosophy, and how she has directed her career.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies that do well have turned modernization into a process instead of an event. Create a framework to guide decisions Michael Bradshaw, who has held the CIO position at Kyndryl since the IT service management company spun off from IBM in 2021, developed a framework around five core guiding principles to facilitate key IT decisions.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

McKee, tech founder and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies, acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe. With SAP, the biggest cost component is database and memory,” Wiedenbeck says, so he took a hard look at each. “By And you have to partner with your vendors.”

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What enterprise software vendors are doing with generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

It can connect the data to a variety of LLMs, open source, or proprietary, the company said. One feature of its Commerce GPT almost ready to go is a tool to fill in missing catalog data called Dynamic Product Descriptions, which will be available from July, the company said.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. He will also plan and implement the company’s IT and digital strategy.

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Never miss a payday again

Dataconomy

It’s time to shelve unused data Vendor management is another important aspect of AP automation. Many solutions include vendor management capabilities that enable organizations to maintain accurate and up-to-date records of their vendors. This helps speed up the approval process and reduces bottlenecks.

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