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6 best practices for better vendor management

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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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How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI

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The firm says some agentic AI applications, in some industries and for some use cases, could see actual adoption into existing workflows this year. The IT department uses Asana AI Studio for vendor management, to support help-desk requests, and to ensure its meeting software and compliance management requirements.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

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It prevents vendor lock-in, gives a lever for strong negotiation, enables business flexibility in strategy execution owing to complicated architecture or regional limitations in terms of security and legal compliance if and when they rise and promotes portability from an application architecture perspective.

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

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tagging, component/application mapping, key metric collection) and tools incorporated to ensure data can be reported on sufficiently and efficiently without creating an industry in itself! Observer-optimiser: Continuous monitoring, review and refinement is essential.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

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Agents will begin replacing services Software has evolved from big, monolithic systems running on mainframes, to desktop apps, to distributed, service-based architectures, web applications, and mobile apps. And its top of mind for many as they look at their application portfolio, specifically as it relates to cloud and AI capabilities.

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO

Maturity means, on one hand, that users have not only gained experience with individual dedicated cloud services, but in many cases are now also modernizing and outsourcing core applications. More than half, however, are committed to a cloud-first approach, or the preferred use of cloud services over on-premises hosted applications.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.