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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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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

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IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance. Many of the new skills are in rare supply, as are team leaders experienced in this new development paradigm.”

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

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The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management. 1. IT management It’s no surprise that IT executive positions earn some of the highest average salaries, with Dice reporting an average yearly salary of $164,814 in 2022 — an 8.4%

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

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Now, as it conceptualized a new platform to effectively manage services spend, it was forced to change its deployment system. 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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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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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. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Do we have the right talent in place?

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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To gain that insight he monitors ongoing usage and meets weekly or biweekly with internal business leaders — and with Microsoft, the city’s primary cloud service provider, to review current and future needs. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. Then there’s housekeeping.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

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Already this year, there are numerous smaller M&A deals, as enterprise software providers buy their way into new markets or acquire new capabilities rather than develop them in house. Perforce Software, a privately held provider of software development tools, has agreed to buy the infrastructure automation software platform Puppet.