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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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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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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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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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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.

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Mitigating cyber risks: the essential role of collaboration for Middle East organizations

CIO

The panelists identified three high-risk functions that organizations in the Middle East must prioritize—credential management, vendor management, and patch management. These areas, often neglected or poorly managed, can expose businesses to serious vulnerabilities.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO

It allows us to provide services in areas that arent covered, and check boxes on the security, privacy, and compliance side. Plus, some regions have data residency and other restrictive requirements. So we augment with open source, he says. Right now, the company is using the French-built Mistral open source model.