TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Pete Schlampp, chief strategy officer at Workday, says as the face of work changes, companies need a way to manage contractors and VNDLY gives them that. “VNDLY is at the forefront of the vendor management industry with an innovative and intuitive approach.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2024

García’s response to these challenges includes some of the basic actions when there’s disruption to the supply of IT resources: looking for an alternative as quickly as possible, and maintaining a supplier strategy that’s not limited to a single company. So too are robust vendor management practices.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Arwa Kaddoura has worked for nearly 20 years in cloud GTM strategies and scaling startups and large enterprises. Enablement includes everything from access to additional resources, volume discounts and navigating security, to vendor management, procurement and understanding product roadmaps. Arwa Kaddoura. Contributor.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

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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CIO

JULY 26, 2024

The decisive factors are responsibility for the transformation, mostly locating centrally the downstream management of the new IT operating models, and the inclusion of important departments such as legal, compliance and risk management. Around 13% of users say they’ll pursue a rigid cloud-only strategy in the future.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Management changes unfold at your vendor or company If a key company or vendor manager leaves who initially was highly supportive of your project, it’s time to see whether that project support will stay intact. In the vendor area, management changes happen most often when companies merge or are acquired.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Alongside providing banking services, he says Prospa offers invoicing tools, inventory management, employee and vendor management, an e-commerce store, and payroll features. Prospa plans to use its new capital to double down and expand with acquisition strategies to get more customers. startup-focused financial product.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience. Companies need qualified CTOs, CIOs, vice presidents, and directors who are focused on developing and overseeing the business’ overall technology strategy and goals.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Startups that don’t use a vendor management framework to oversee their tech stack are flying in a dense fog: There’s no easy way to know how much they’re spending each month or on what. But who owns your checkout flow? Surviving the SaaS tsunami: Optimize your tech stack to reduce risk and free up cash flow.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance. Double down on vendor management. IT Skills, IT Strategy, Outsourcing

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. For example, strategy building skills enable IT teams to unlock new business opportunities.

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Coalfire

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Every regulated industry includes a requirement for managing third-party risk. Some industries are further along the path and have more mature processes than others. However, there are tried and true methodologies and standards established by those early movers that we can utilize across other regulated industries.

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is a technology leader hired on a temporary or part-time basis, explains Peter Kirkwood, corporate strategy leader at management consulting and strategy advisory firm Zinnov. A fractional CIO develops and leads the execution of a company’s IT strategy,” he states. What does a fractional CIO do?

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CIO

JULY 11, 2024

It emerged that there are major gaps in cloud cost management and optimization (CCMO) strategies, resulting in exceeded budgets and an overall loss cloud spend control. Overspend in cloud deployment Money wasted on an untargeted cloud strategy has serious consequences to the enterprise.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.” This tends to be driven by a position-based negotiation strategy.”

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Mike Rawson, CIO of citizenM, is also emphasizing green IT as part of the global hotel chain’s IT strategy. By integrating sustainability into our core business strategy, we’re not only reducing our environmental impact but also creating long-term value for our stakeholders.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes. We also plan on expanding our ERM [enterprise risk management] evaluations to include a more comprehensive SaaS vendor’s DR to determine which platforms we need to ensure have a mitigation strategy.”

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Newgen Software

JUNE 8, 2020

Be it procurement, vendor management, finance and accounting, or even human resources, every essential business unit stands to benefit from ERP. The post Successful ERP Implementation Needs a Well-planned Strategy! Related posts: Cornerstones of successful long-term Record Management Strategy.

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

The CIO typically ranks the highest in an IT department, responsible for managing the organization’s IT strategy, resources, operations, and overall goals. Meanwhile, the CTO focuses on technology research and development efforts, often working closely with the CIO to develop a strong IT strategy.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Danielle Phaneuf, partner, Cloud & Digital Strategy at PwC, says that inflation will probably be the leading threat to business for at least the next six months — an assertion 40% of CEOs agreed with in PwC’s 2023 CEO Survey. But it’s a long-game strategy: That cycle can take 10 years to play out, he says. Here’s how.

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CIO

AUGUST 22, 2023

As such, organizations must evolve their digital strategies with market changes, such as the shift to remote work in 2020, the evolution to hyperautomation in 2022, and how generative AI will now require CIOs to overhaul their roadmaps. “You Agile PMOs take on these responsibilities and reduce the frictions that slow teams down.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Strategy, Microsoft, Predictive Analytics, Retail Industry, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

When Strickland joined Wyndham in 2017, he served as a traditional CIO, but he soon expanded his portfolio with vendor management, selling the argument that because IT constituted the bulk of the spend, it made sense to centralize under one organization and management.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The global standard at lightning speed Based in Dublin, Ireland, Accenture specializes in digital, cloud, and security technology strategies, consulting, and operations, serving more than 40 industries in more than 120 countries.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Leadership, IT Skills, IT Strategy, Predictive Analytics, Supply Chain, Vendor Management It’ll help consolidate, optimize, and integrate industries, which will result in new industry performance benchmarks that raise the bar and create greater shareholder value.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Sourcing and Partnerships – revisiting and improving the sourcing strategy is critical for minimising the total cost of ownership while maximising the value of the investment. One of the key steps in achieving all of the above will be vendor consolidation, and there will be a strong trend towards this in the year ahead.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones. “Indian vendors were just not able to compete in any of these levers — product, marketing, channel, etc.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

FinOps is part of the equation, but from a CIO perspective, you need a top-down view that starts with the strategy before you talk about the components of it,” McMasters says. For CIOs, that means building strong relationships with the C-suite and business unit managers so they can plan for and optimize cloud spend, says McMasters.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

The certification covers business frameworks, IT frameworks, software, database management, information systems, corporate IT strategy, corporate governance, risk, finance, and management of technology personnel. GAQM offers an e-course that takes 30 to 35 hours on average to complete that you can take prior to taking the exam.

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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.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 22, 2020

With a cybersecurity landscape dominated by fragmented security vendors and tools, businesses struggle to protect themselves. I t takes a collaborative approach across cybersecurity vendors, managed security service providers (MSSP) and organizations to take up the global cyber threat challenge.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Tenants can select data from the data sources they have access to, choose the right chunking strategy for their application, use the shared generative AI FMs for converting the data into embeddings, and store the embeddings in their vector store.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 10, 2020

Our wider Studio Engineering Organization has built more than 30 apps that help content progress from pitch (aka screenplay) to playback: ranging from script content acquisition, deal negotiations and vendor management to scheduling, streamlining production workflows, and so on.

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Datavail

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With the right optimization strategies, you can maximize PostgreSQL’s value while controlling costs. Effective vendor management and support models drive down services spending. With the optimal optimization strategy tailored to your environment, you can control costs while maximizing PostgreSQL’s value.

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 7, 2020

Despite a wide range of cybersecurity strategies and investment levels, we’ve found that most enterprise security programs have lots of room for improvement to better prevent, identify, investigate and mitigate threats with speed and confidence. Governance: How are we going to manage what we are doing?

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Ivanti

APRIL 15, 2021

However, in this case, patching is not a temporary band-aid, but rather a proactive planned strategy. Patch management is more than just repairing and updating IT software. It remediates vulnerabilities and manages risk. Patching is a subset of risk-based prioritization, and software life-cycle management.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What to ask The question CIOs need to ask themselves is not who will buy Nutanix, but what to do if a key vendor is acquired or otherwise changes direction — a fundamental facet of any vendor management plan. “If If your software vendor is independent then the immediate question is: Is the company buying this one that I’m using?

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