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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO Business Intelligence

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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Building enterprise use cases with 5G open RAN

TM Forum

The first two phases of the catalyst addressed how a CSP could leverage existing business support system (BSS) assets to offer digital services and share those software components via a software marketplace. Marketplace framework: Marketplace federation, billing/cost management, entitlements, and cloud provisioning.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Rising software costs create headaches Another example is Ameritas Life Insurance, which has operations in the US, but the current 3.7% With the move to software and platform as a service offerings, infrastructure has now shrunk to less than 10% of his overall budget. I sign three-year deals, but then I’m facing big price hikes.”

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO Business Intelligence

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Previously, he led the design, planning, implementation and delivery of IT managed services, cloud and security services, data centre and disaster recovery services at NTT. He has also worked with Reliance Communications, Global Tele-Systems, Mahindra Consulting, and Microtech Software and Consultants. November 2021.

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7 challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2020

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

The way organizations approach the aftermath of data being corrupted will likely change too, as insurance companies will begin to take an active role, not just in the recovery of data, but in the decision making when it comes to whether or not to pay the ransom demand. Connecting decentralized software. Does it have an open API?

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson. Perforce Software buys Puppet.