CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While I expected this exercise to confirm that consolidation is real, I was pleasantly surprised with the degree to which the CIO Tech Talk Community confirmed it – and how they are taking steps to realign their procurement and vendor management strategies. Of course, some startups will also shutdown. What’s next?

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one. Next, the institute will create training courses on prompt engineering techniques and the ethics of using gen AI.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Setting the course: The importance of clear goals when evaluating data and analytics enablement platforms Improving credit decisioning for financial institutions Say you’re a bank looking to leverage the tremendous growth in small business through lending. Thankfully, the challenges are being met, and companies are now offering options.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2024

As a result, some companies are even considering reversing course, and bringing workloads from the cloud back to their own on-premises data centers. The increasing complexity of heterogeneous IT landscapes and resulting higher costs are causing problems for many organizations.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Options that come forward immediately in most organizations include outsourcing everything, squeezing vendors, renegotiating contracts and of course, reducing head count. For example, outsourcing everything typically does not reduce costs in my experience as the time managing the outsourced environment can be quite costly. .

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Over the course of this year, CIOs have spent time studying the Data Act, the European digital regulatory framework composed of a set of laws united by the aim to encourage innovation in European companies, and to open up new markets. Theres also the question of data retention.

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CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

Enterprises were up in arms when people discovered the fine print this summer and Zoom quickly reversed course. Model training Vendors training their models on customer data isn’t the only training-related risk of generative AI. CIO, Data Privacy, Generative AI, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

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CIO

JUNE 12, 2023

Of course, he says, it’s interesting to try something experimental, but investing requires greater commitment to the business case. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers “But I usually say it’s better to get those who know something in a field to become interested.

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Trigent

JUNE 27, 2022

The intent of a QA process is mainly to bring down the defects between builds over the course of a project. The right process would focus on integration aspects as well to bridge these gaps. Testing Quality.

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Jeremiah Grossman

MAY 17, 2016

Ask the vendors for customer references during the evaluation process, which is something all customers should do as a matter of course. Ask the vendor for their competitor’s pricing, and how they compare with it. Among other things, VARs make vendor management much easier for customers.

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Capgemini

MAY 24, 2023

ADM services refer to the outsourcing of different IT areas, for example, infra services, security management, application services, etc. Prior to SAP RISE, these services were normally provided by specialized vendors that held expertise in these areas.

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CodeSignal

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Last month, the company’s hiring manager requested your firm’s assistance in filling an open position for a full stack developer. Over the course of the engagement, your recruiters have recommended fifteen coders, but the hiring manager has only interviewed five candidates (and rejected the other ten).

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Tenable

AUGUST 18, 2023

Working with CISA’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative ( JCDC ), a group of public- and private-sector collaborators participated in the creation of the “Remote Monitoring and Management Cyber Defense Plan,” which was released this week.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2018

Aside from the fact that this serves the interests of a multitude of non-tech corporate functions such as human resources, vendor management and finance, it also provides a great deal of comfort to the individual. Of course, working this way is a question of both skill and will.

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Honeycomb

JUNE 16, 2023

Whether we went the third-party route or built our own thing, that’s more vendor management and/or infrastructure overhead. You might be thinking, “Well of course an observability company has good observability for their feature, but what about me?” turbo’s limit. It doesn’t take much effort!

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Of course, that's true only as far as the contract is concerned: in the event of a project failure, even if the buyer can claw back money from the supplier, the buying business is denied the working software it wanted at the time it wanted it. Body shopping is a big business: the margins are thin, but the volumes more than make up for it.

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Prisma Clud

OCTOBER 9, 2024

AWS Ground Truth Private Workforce: This manual data-labeling feature enables SageMaker users to create a "labeling workforce" (group of workers either vendor-managed or chosen by the customer to label datasets) associated with a Cognito User Pool. The user pool registers users under it when inviting workers to the workforce.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

They cannot chart a future course based on a wide-eyed search for external growth: “There’s an attractive, adjacent market. In a messy, incoherent world, those companies that can look through a capabilities lens set a straighter and more sustainable course and avoid costly missteps. Let’s go after it.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

And sometimes pulling the plug is the best course forward. Of course, employee retention efforts can help here, as can knowing the most common reasons top talent leaves. Vendor management best practices can also help in the event of outside dependencies changing. Like a sixth sense.

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Kentik

MAY 17, 2021

And the cloud vendors’ management interfaces don’t make it easy to do simple things like figuring out traffic paths or visualizing traffic going over a VPN. Some aren’t fluent with cloud terminology or haven’t been exposed to cloud consoles and APIs. In short, running cloud networks is slowing network teams down.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2025

People will inevitably change over the course of your relationship with a supplier, says George Nellist, director and CIO at Ascend Agency. After all, with ITs high turnover rate , personnel changes are inevitable in any supplier partnership.

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CIO

APRIL 3, 2025

Of course, ICT is part of this planning group as well, but has a strategic rather than a technical role. This will help to bring concrete proposals to IT on products to select and implement. Foracchia says that AUSL Reggio Emilia has a strategic planning group made up of non-IT people with a business mandate that defines the ICT strategy.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Democratize — and take care of your users The transition to cloud offerings means yielding some control to external vendors, but security, of course, remains paramount, says Porter. Robust vendor management, risk analysis, and a proactive security culture are essential when going through a third party, he says.

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