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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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12 AI predictions for 2025

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The fields of customer service, marketing, and customer development are going to see massive adoption, he says. He expects the same to happen in all areas of software development, starting with user requirements research through project management and all the way to testing and quality assurance.

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Managing the many we’s of IT

CIO

Currently the general sentiment regarding key big-name vendors is less than positive. A software developer lamented, These days, when I use [product X] from [vendor alpha] I just dont feel like theyre on my side. Whether we like it or not, we in IT, as perceived by our stakeholders, includes our vendors.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO

Key skills for the role include resource allocation, risk and change management, quality assurance, communication, and leadership and team building. Relevant skills for DevOps Engineers include automation, software development, system administration skills, and cloud computing.

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JLR revs up AI and intelligent automation initiatives

CIO

Generative AI has already made its entry into the company, with some software development teams using it in various parts of their coding schema and methodology, he says. “TCS and lots of other Tata organizations are already pushing the boundaries in many of these areas,” he says, so he’s looking at collaborations there.

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Empowering Engineering Excellence: Achieving a 26% Reduction in On-call Pages at Amperity with Modern Observability for Logs

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Being on the leading-edge of software development requires quality observability insights, and the company wanted a new partner that could support their engineering charter for continual improvement and growth. The challenge?

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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“It might cost us $1,000 per day per developer to outsource,” he says. And then there’s the extra complexity and costs associated with managing remote teams. When you outsource your software development team, they’re no longer your team,” he adds. And you have to partner with your vendors.”