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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

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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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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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

If a cost/benefit analysis shows that agentic AI will provide whats missing in current processes, and deliver a return on investment (ROI), then a company should move ahead with the necessary resources, including money, people, and time.

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

TechCrunch

Workday announced this afternoon that it intends to acquire VNDLY , a Mason, OH startup that helps companies manage external workforce personnel for $510 million. “VNDLY is at the forefront of the vendor management industry with an innovative and intuitive approach.

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

CIO

First, cloud provisioning through automation is better in AWS CloudFormation and Azure Azure Resource Manager compared to the other cloud providers. You get a subscription and begin deploying resources. Having said that, there are a couple of standouts I would like to point out. How difficult can it be, after all?

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

In its statement, the ACM urged the US government to provide the CSRB with the necessary resources it needs to take on this investigation. That would have been nice but instead, the Department of Homeland Security just disbanded it, citing misuse of resources. The AI Safety and Security Board was also disbanded.