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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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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

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Travelex leverages cloud-based customer data platform to boost retention

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To do so, they developed a cloud-based customer data platform (CDP) that allows them to bring in and analyze third-party data and combine it with their own data so they can flag unused balances. The decision to host the platform in the cloud, in particular on AWS, was a question of efficiency, he says.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

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For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud. Relevant skills include Java, JavaScript, organizational and leadership skills, technical knowledge, project management, and architecture design.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

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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. The demand for project managers has grown, with salaries for this role increasing by 15.6% percent since 2021, according to Dice.

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JLR revs up AI and intelligent automation initiatives

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“That means we need to draw off the car, and feed into the car, lots of data from our enterprise,” he says, so at the intersection of product engineering and enterprise IT, “you’ve got an acute level of synergy in terms of cloud, software engineering standards, integration, and APIs.” It’s an incredible proposition for any tech professional.”