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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

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

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Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation. enterprise architects help ensure that technology investments are optimized to deliver value without exceeding budget capex and opex constraints.

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Seek solutions now to remedy surging cloud costs

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The complexity within IT infrastructures is increasing, as is the pressure on IT budgets to use available funds as smartly and efficiently as possible. Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. Limitations of CCMO tools There’s a lot of room for improvement in cloud cost management.

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

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Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We It used to be that you had 15 to 30 key vendor partners, and now it’s more than 100,” he says. It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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Download our cloud cost management enterprise buyer’s guide

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Cloud cost management tools are an answer. Budgeting, Cloud Management, Enterprise Buyer’s Guides, IT Management, Vendor Management Developer teams are learning that the pennies add up, sometimes faster than expected, and it’s time for some discipline.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

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Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget. Program analyst/manager Working closely with project managers, program analysts and managers oversee programs and projects within an organization to ensure they’re on track and on budget.