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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Contractors and vendors should be treated like your car insurance,” says Pratt. Audit all contracts IT organizations almost always pay for more than the business actually needs for hardware, software, and networking. When it is renewal time, make sure to scrutinize and shop around.”

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft has bought Minit, a developer of process mining software, to help its customers optimize business processes across the enterprise, on and off Microsoft Power Platform. NTT Data adds Vectorform to service portfolio. Lansweeper acquires UMAknow. IT asset management platform Lansweeper has acquired UMAknow, the developer of Cloudockit.