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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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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

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The main commercial model, from OpenAI, was quicker and easier to deploy and more accurate right out of the box, but the open source alternatives offered security, flexibility, lower costs, and, with additional training, even better accuracy. Another benefit is that with open source, Emburse can do additional model training.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

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Plus, they can be more easily trained on a companys own data, so Upwork is starting to embrace this shift, training its own small language models on more than 20 years of interactions and behaviors on its platform.

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

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Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation. They encourage seamless communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization and in some cases playing mediator.

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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. Then it is best to build an AI agent that can be cross-trained for this cross-functional expertise and knowledge, Iragavarapu says.

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

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Investment in training and change management is critical to the success. The CoE in this phase has to proactively engage ALL stakeholders, making them aware of the change in the mode of operation and guiding the team through training, coffee chats, and CoE sessions during this period of transformation.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

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The governance group developed a training program for employees who wanted to use gen AI, and created privacy and security policies. We have it open and available, and people need to sign up to use it after going through some required training,” she says. And training an LLM from scratch was too cost prohibitive.