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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 today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

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Observer-optimiser: Continuous monitoring, review and refinement is essential. Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation. compromising quality, structure, integrity, goals).

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Shame-free down rounds, checkout flow tune-up, SaaS tsunami

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Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. If you’re trying to recalibrate online sales, this TC+ guest post contains formulas for calculating lost lifetime value (LTV) due to churn on a monthly and annual basis. Dominic-Madori Davis: Diligence? Well, why not? Are we doing it?

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

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The good news is all major cloud providers frameworks do the same thing: Operational excellence Security Cost optimization Reliability Performance efficiency Sustainability The framework helps in implementing the financial controls (FinOps) that we will discuss separately, management of workloads (BaseOps) and security controls (SecOps).

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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.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

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“But we’re not sanctioning it or encouraging it yet across the board as a way to code faster. Instead, GPT4DFCI, based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo and hosted within the institute’s private cloud on Azure so no data is leaked back to OpenAI, is more of an improved search engine to help people better understand something.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management. 1. IT management It’s no surprise that IT executive positions earn some of the highest average salaries, with Dice reporting an average yearly salary of $164,814 in 2022 — an 8.4%