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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

There’s absolutely an overarching trend we’re witnessing of organizations entering into more strategic partnership agreements to ensure access to critical talent and expertise,” says Greg Sarafin, global alliance and ecosystem leader at EY. D ue diligence pays off. Build trust and transparency.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

Solutions architect Solutions architects are responsible for building, developing, and implementing systems architecture within an organization, ensuring that they meet business or customer needs. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. Value-stream teams have been given more autonomy and possibilities to select, purchase and integrate hardware and software. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. Value-stream teams have been given more autonomy and possibilities to select, purchase and integrate hardware and software. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives.

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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

CIO

Facing the possibility of an economic recession, one of the world’s leading professional services companies felt the urgency to improve its grasp on spend management – the practice of fully understanding and managing supplier relations and company purchasing. With 738,000 employees and $3.8 Digital Transformation