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Spooky, Scary Tales of Vendor Management

SecureWorld News

Five little vendors access your data. The first one said, "For this company, vendor management doesn't seem to matta." The fourth one said, "Regulation requires vendor control." In honor of Halloween, it seems appropriate to address one of the scariest issues facing organizations today: vendor or supplier management.

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Vendor management and looking beyond SMB firewalls, anti-virus, and data backups

IT Toolbox

From servers to PBXs and everything in between, his company sells, installs, and manages entire network environments for its customers. Companies like my colleague’s are the backbone of the enormously large group of businesses

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NVIDIA Arms Itself To Terminate Intel’s Processor Dominance

Forrester IT

NVIDIA just announced it plans to acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank Group for $40B. The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and thus, Intel and AMD). The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie in […].

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Rationalize and integrate For many IT leaders, mergers and decentralization on top of cloud migration strategies are significant contributors to SaaS management headaches, resulting in increased complexity and redundancies that can be challenging to uncover.

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Travelex leverages cloud-based customer data platform to boost retention

CIO Business Intelligence

To measure the impact of their efforts, Travelex established a small control group to whom they initially didn’t send the card balance related alerts, even though they fit the profile of the type of customers they’re trying to target. From the data, we see these messages have made a tremendous impact,” he says. “So

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The CIO’s guide to smarter vendor negotiation: 10 tips

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders may find that prices are going up without an accompanying increase in benefits, with technology providers — less dependent on any one industry or geography — taking a harder line on deals, says Achint Arora, a partner in the pricing assurance practice at Everest Group. The group of stakeholders keeps growing.”

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Agile Procurement In Government Is Not An Oxymoron

Forrester IT

In my early research on Agile procurement in government (and Agile procurement in general), almost all of those conversations quickly devolved into what groups were doing Agile software development. In any conversation focused on Agile, it takes some time to figure out what each party means when they use the term.

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