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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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Cognitio’s Roger Hockenberry Cited in BizTechReports

CTOvision

RH: Actually it is a benchmark – 24 elements divided into four categories – a basic e-map that we’ve based on some metrics we create so we can show comparison values. If you go into some enterprises, they will spend an inordinate amount of money on identity management or a PKI certificate or data loss protection.