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

CIO

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 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

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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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Many organizations are due to revisit their cloud strategies, as their businesses have changed and vendor offerings have matured,” says Brian Alletto, technology director at digital services consultancy West Monroe. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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Beyond Transactions: Nurturing Vendor Relationships with the Power of Self-service Portal

Newgen Software

Think of your Accounts Payable (AP) department as the behind-the-scenes kitchen team, working diligently to manage orders, payments, and relationships with these suppliers. A self-service vendor portal can greatly enhance the level of service provided by AP departments to vendors.

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9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If your job or business relies on systems engineering and operations, be sure to keep an eye on the following trends in the months ahead. This practice incorporates machine learning in order to make sense of data and keep engineers informed about both patterns and problems so they can address them swiftly. Kubernetes.