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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

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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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How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI

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The IT department uses Asana AI Studio for vendor management, to support help-desk requests, and to ensure its meeting software and compliance management requirements. ISG is using agentic AI for some components of its ISG Tango tool.

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

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Second, from a cloud security perspective, Azure has a comprehensive cloud security tool that comes as a package and can seamlessly be integrated with its services, thus enhancing the cloud security posture without the need to buy an external tool. Investment in training and change management is critical to the success.

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SaaS startup Stimulus closes oversubscribed $2.5 million seed round

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Tiffanie Stanard launched the company in 2017 with a focus on the supply chain, creating a product that provided establishments with the tools and data to choose, compare and form relationships with product suppliers and vendors. Stanard established the company after her own experiences as a buyer and vendor manager.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

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Many of the worlds leading technology companies are headquartered here, and many of them make their tools available here, he says. And that will bring with it a completely new stack of tools and development processes. If youre not using the proper tools, thats your first indication you arent the right person for the job.

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Bubba AI, Inc. is launching Comp AI to help 100,000 startups get SOC 2 compliant by 2032

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Carhart recognized a significant gap in the market for affordable, flexible compliance automation tools that could serve the needs of a wide range of companies. The Value of Open Source Compliance Solutions Bubba AI was founded in late 2024 by Lewis Carhart.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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When possible, Akamai avoids using tools that require agents, though there are areas, including cybersecurity, where theyre necessary and the benefits outweigh the risks. After the CrowdStrike incident, Akamai began reviewing all its vendor agreements to make sure the contracts had all the necessary protections in place.