CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

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. Customer service: A target agentic AI use case One area that might be ideal for agentic AI is customer service.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“VNDLY is at the forefront of the vendor management industry with an innovative and intuitive approach. The powerful combination of our technologies and talent will help customers better manage their evolving workforce dynamics, helping them keep pace with today’s changing world of work,” Schlampp said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Enablement includes everything from access to additional resources, volume discounts and navigating security, to vendor management, procurement and understanding product roadmaps. All this has less to do with selling and more to do with giving customers a well-managed buying process.

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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

At the same time, it’s been possible to avoid excessive dependencies by building up or strengthening internal vendor management capacities. More than ever, their expertise and resources are being consulted when developing a roadmap, as well as planning and implementing a transformation process.

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The importance of good planning This work prior to any debacle is essential when it comes to managing it with greater success. So too are robust vendor management practices. “There’s always the possibility of entering into discussions directly with the main provider of the contracted technological services,” says del Poyo.

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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. .” Over the call, CEO Obasi is quick to dispel that notion. “Banking is just a little part of what we do.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The company recently added vendor management tooling , and is now adding reimbursing capabilities so that employees can be paid back for expenses not made on the startup’s cards. Ramp is dropping new code with its funding news, underscoring the point. Which of the three has the best software stack?

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CIO

JULY 1, 2024

“That vendor is looking after the long-term interests of the organization, and not just looking to get the next contract.” Anthony Moisant, CIO and chief security officer at Indeed, a job matching and hiring platform, brings that perspective to his vendor management practices. “In

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Travel and expense management company Emburse saw multiple opportunities where it could benefit from gen AI. It could be used to improve the experience for individual users, for example, with smarter analysis of receipts, or help corporate clients by spotting instances of fraud.

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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. Surviving the SaaS tsunami: Optimize your tech stack to reduce risk and free up cash flow.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one. But the institute was able to focus its resources on other applications, such as research and operations. These are areas where AI can deliver high return on investment with comparatively lower risk, adds Umeton.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

Double down on vendor management. To manage these relationships, IT organizations need robust vendor management processes , says West Monroe’s Wright. Here, metrics and governance are especially important — as is addressing issues with either promptly.

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CIO

MAY 15, 2024

Cloud cost management tools are an answer. Budgeting, Cloud Management, Enterprise Buyer’s Guides, IT Management, Vendor Management Developer teams are learning that the pennies add up, sometimes faster than expected, and it’s time for some discipline.

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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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David Walsh

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The Pluralsight library is massive; you can learn about programming languages, products from specific vendors, management skills, and more. Since I had a good time with the JavaScript content, I moved on to learn about Python and Go. I was blown away.

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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.”

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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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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

JUNE 8, 2023

Relevant skills for the role include a technical background in IT and a strong working knowledge of IT infrastructure, databases, networks, hardware, and software, along with knowledge of data analytics, change management, vendor management, and leadership and team management skills.

Systems Administration 210

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As it faced its latest challenge, Accenture chose SAP Fieldglass , a vendor management system for services procurement and external workforce organization, to provide reporting and analytics.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Self-service Can the platform and data be used on-prem and is self-service, avoiding vendor-managed services and costs? Can it readily adapt to constantly changing regulations? Does it allow you to quickly revisit models as needed? Can it enable a genuinely end-to-end, DIY data and analytics solution?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Leadership, IT Skills, IT Strategy, Predictive Analytics, Supply Chain, Vendor Management Companies that don’t embrace generative AI will become obsolete.”

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

Generative AI is also poised to dramatically speed up the whole process, says Rajib Gupta, senior director advisor in Gartner’s IT sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Lenovo research shows that 92 per cent of CIOs believe that their vendors play a valuable role in their company’s overall success. However, having too many vendors can result in incompatibilities, confusion, and time lost in vendor management.

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

Both roles require a knowledge of cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services, as well as experience with ITSM , I&O, governance , automation, and vendor management. Program analyst/manager A program analyst or manager is tasked with developing and overseeing IT projects to ensure that they stay on task and on budget.

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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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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

APRIL 18, 2023

Some enterprises turn to a fractional CIO to supply knowledge and expertise in one or more fundamental leadership areas, such as operations management, maintenance, strategic planning, risk, compliance/governance, vendor management, and other essential matters, Trzeciak notes. What services do fractional CIOs provide?

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CIO

AUGUST 22, 2023

When working with teams, they should simplify vendor management and reporting, including financial and other KPIs. CIOs can tap PMOs to communicate compliance requirements, drive learning objectives, and promote hiring practices that meet diversity objectives. Digital transformation isn’t dead — it’s becoming table stakes.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

C-Suite, CIO, IT Leadership, Relationship Building, Vendor Management Once you build a pool of known, hopefully trusted talent already waiting for the opportunity to work directly with you, it’s just a matter of making sure the opportunity is right for them and working together to achieve that.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Generative AI, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers Watson isn’t itself a generative AI tool, but SAP sees its natural language processing capabilities as a first step on the way to use generative AI more widely.

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Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

An architect for an in-shop product engineering department requires different capabilities and attitudes compared to an architect that has to work with vendors and ensure successful integration. The latter architect needs to be stronger in vendor management and the corresponding negotiation. Do I need an architect?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

And you have to partner with your vendors.” Budgeting, CIO, Digital Transformation, IT Leadership, IT Skills, Outsourcing, SaaS, Salaries, Software Development, Vendor Management “Decide if you’re willing to take on risk to adapt to price spikes,” he says.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

An architect for an in-shop product engineering department requires different capabilities and attitudes compared to an architect that has to work with vendors and ensure successful integration. The latter architect needs to be stronger in vendor management and the corresponding negotiation. Do I need an architect?

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