CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is typically an experienced IT leader who is external to the enterprise yet acts as an accountable leader and extension of the executive team, says Dave Hartman, president of IT management consulting firm Hartman Executive Advisors. “A What types of organizations hire fractional CIOs?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. 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. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Arwa Kaddoura has worked for nearly 20 years in cloud GTM strategies and scaling startups and large enterprises. Enablement includes everything from access to additional resources, volume discounts and navigating security, to vendor management, procurement and understanding product roadmaps. Arwa Kaddoura. Contributor.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

That’s not hyperbole: TEKsystems’ 2024 State of Digital Transformation report found that 53% of organizations classified as digital leaders are confident that their digital investments will meet expected ROIs. But as a CIO, I don’t need an IT organization that’s writing apps. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

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

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Rising prices have imposed tough challenges on IT budgets, operations and staffing, especially for global organizations with operations in countries where inflation has been running high, such as Poland (10%), India (8%) or Turkey (50%). IT organizations can save substantial amounts on SaaS contracts by lowering service levels, CIOs say.

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Software asset management tools are specialized software applications designed to help organizations manage and optimize their software assets throughout their lifecycle. This helps organizations avoid legal and financial risks associated with non-compliance.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. Equally telling is another statistic from that research: Just 35% of these enterprises have achieved their digital goals or are on track to do so.

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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.” If what you’re looking for isn’t in the contract, it won’t happen.

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Newgen Software

OCTOBER 20, 2023

But, before we dive into the details, let’s understand what a self-service vendor portal is and the transformative possibilities it offers. Understanding with a Use Case Think of your enterprise as a busy restaurant. The Self-service Vendor Portal Advantage: Why You Should Implement One?

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 6, 2022

CIO blog post : “Digital transformation is a foundational change in how an organization delivers value to its customers.”. Wikipedia : “ Digital transformation (DX ) is the adoption of digital technology by an organization.”. Redundancy is often a culprit in organizations. Strategies to maximize impact.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 22, 2020

It is not simple to prevent intruders from penetrating an organization. With a cybersecurity landscape dominated by fragmented security vendors and tools, businesses struggle to protect themselves. Collaborative Partnerships with MSSPs Lead the Way to More Secure Organizations. Nobody can stop sophisticated cyber threats alone.

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Saviynt

APRIL 2, 2019

However, as enterprises seek to create the modern IT architectures and move workloads to the cloud, they need also incorporate Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendors to help create ecosystems that enable their business needs.

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Ivanti

AUGUST 4, 2021

In an average month, an organization may spend 40 hours or more per SaaS vendor managing usage, overall spend, and contract renewals. Preparing a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement true-up can take two months and consume up to 120 hours of productive time. That is to say, they’re paying for it, but they aren’t using it.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Defining the position of the lead security person in an enterprise can be a challenging and sometimes confusing task. Regardless of titles or functional position, the lead role in a security organization is expected to wear many hats and solve a myriad of strategic, operational and tactical problems. Vendor management.

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 7, 2020

Despite a wide range of cybersecurity strategies and investment levels, we’ve found that most enterprise security programs have lots of room for improvement to better prevent, identify, investigate and mitigate threats with speed and confidence. Questions that must be answered: What other functions of the business impact security operations?

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Trigent

JUNE 27, 2022

The ‘right’ metrics to evaluate QA effectiveness depend on your organization. We enable organizations to adopt digital processes and customer engagement models to achieve outstanding results and end-user experience. If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. Test coverage. Ensure the QA effectiveness and application performance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

“China-based vendors managed to get quality devices, high specifications and the latest technology at affordable prices with huge marketing and channel spends,” Singh said. “Indian vendors were just not able to compete in any of these levers — product, marketing, channel, etc.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 22, 2019

The serverless craze is in full swing, and shows no signs of stopping—since December 2017 alone, the technology has grown 22% , and Gartner reports that by 2020, more than 20% of global enterprises will be deploying serverless. Among the vendors to watch are Istio, HashiCorps, and Linkerd. Cloud-native infrastructure.

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Capgemini

MAY 24, 2023

This is a subscription-based service, comprising multiple SAP components that join to form an Intelligent Enterprise with the primary purpose of enabling companies to take full advantage of the power of the Cloud within their core systems. SAP RISE (also called RISE with SAP) was launched in 2021.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

The following is an excerpt: When it comes to cybersecurity, what you don’t know about the nature and sophistication of threats can hurt your organization badly. Cognitio co-founder and CEO Roger Hockenberry was featured in a special BizTechReports piece which focused on Cognitio''s capabilities in cyber threat reduction.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Tenable found that, as of October 1, 2022: 72% of organizations remain vulnerable to Log4Shell. Nearly one third of North American organizations have fully remediated Log4j (28%), followed by Europe, Middle East and Africa (27%), Asia-Pacific (25%) and Latin America (21%). What is patch management?" (TechTarget).

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

With a career path that wound through R&D, product development, advanced supply chain, and technology, Praveen Jonnala is well positioned to lead a global IT organization as well as take the reins of operations and other core business functions.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 31, 2019

SOC 2 compliance is a component of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA)’s Service Organization Control reporting platform. These reports outline our policies for organizational oversight, vendor management, internal corporate governance and risk management processes, and regulatory oversight. What is SOC 2?

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2018

Organizations of autonomous teams require a different set of behaviors than organizations that are run like a machine. They are unencumbered by hierarchy, expected to communicate with anybody in the organization they need. They are unencumbered by hierarchy, expected to communicate with anybody in the organization they need.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. As a company, managing your supply chain, organizing shipments and coordinating your efforts with other companies takes a lot of planning and effort. Get Better At Returns.

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Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

A wide array of cloud-based infrastructure and business systems is currently in use at most organizations, including virtual machines and containers as well as customer relationship management (CRM) and human resources management systems. But, cloud findings are hardly the only source.

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ParkMyCloud

MAY 29, 2019

As more and more enterprises drive value from container platforms, infrastructure-as-code solutions, software-defined networking, storage, continuous integration/delivery, and AI, they need people and skills on board with ever more niche expertise and deep technological understanding. Here at ParkMyCloud, we talk to a lot of Cloud Architects!

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Trigent

JULY 27, 2021

Not surprisingly, then, enterprises are now focusing on strengthening cybersecurity. The rise in digital interactions and remote work arrangements has compelled enterprises to find a way to curtail cyber attacks. As traditional security models evolve, enterprises will now rely on cybersecurity mesh to ensure complete security.

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KitelyTech

MARCH 11, 2022

Unfortunately, the proliferation of SaaS applications across many enterprises has led to some issues. Most of them were developed out of a need to manage spending. Such optimization tools allow organizations to better manage and proportion the amount of money spent on SaaS across the entire business.

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Kaseya

JUNE 29, 2021

It is often a non-revenue generating function of an organization that runs in the background, such as workforce management, payroll, IT management, etc. But more often than not, when we talk about managed services, we usually mean managed IT services. It costs them their reputation and the trust of their customers.

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Tenable

AUGUST 18, 2023

1 – CIS: Yes, Virginia, you can have solid cyber hygiene without breaking the bank When tasked with beefing up their cybersecurity foundation, organizations often struggle with basic questions. The 36-page document outlines how organizations can adopt the CIS’ first tier of safeguards – known as IG1 – contained within the 18 CIS Controls.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 16, 2021

The entire IT organization will want to know more about you, so your bio has to make a good impression. A key part of your administrative work is to make sure your vendors and partners are aware of your new role. You can use the synergy targets as an opportunity to develop a vendor management capability in IT.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Cloud native empowers digital transformation by leaving undifferentiated IT infrastructure to the providers and freeing organizations to focus on building and running apps that deliver competitive advantage, connect their workforces or serve their customers. Increasingly, organizations are becoming intentionally multicloud.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Organizations that are clear-minded about where and how they participate in a market spend less on those capabilities that are not competitively differentiating. These organizations move in lockstep, because everyone understands what’s important. Third, there is the simple efficiency argument. They execute faster and with more force.

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