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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO

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. Data protection and privacy: Ensuring compliance with data regulations like GDPR and CCPA.

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Your CEO has little idea who IT is or what IT does

CIO

Executives need to understand and hopefully have a respected relationship with the following IT dramatis personae : IT operations director, development director, CISO, project management office (PMO) director, enterprise architecture director, governance and compliance Director, vendor management director, and innovation director.

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Grand Bank's Success Story: Enhancing Vendor Management with Ivanti's External Attack Surface Management Solution

Ivanti

Forrester highlights that EASM is crucial for thorough due diligence, especially during mergers and acquisitions, where uncovering hidden vendor assets is vital for assessing risk. It offers an automated, comprehensive vendor management approach that continuously monitors vendors' attack surfaces, assesses and mitigates risks.

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How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI

CIO

In addition, can the business afford an agentic AI failure in a process, in terms of performance and compliance? 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. Feaver asks.

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Bubba AI, Inc. is launching Comp AI to help 100,000 startups get SOC 2 compliant by 2032

CIO

With the growing importance of security compliance for startups, more companies are seeking to achieve and maintain compliance with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001 & GDPR. The company is positioning itself to address the compliance needs of organizations ranging from early-stage startups to established enterprises.

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Workday to acquire external workforce management startup VNDLY for $510M

TechCrunch

“VNDLY is at the forefront of the vendor management industry with an innovative and intuitive approach. The powerful combination of our technologies and talent will help customers better manage their evolving workforce dynamics, helping them keep pace with today’s changing world of work,” Schlampp said in a statement.