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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Optimizing cloud investments requires close collaboration with the rest of the business to understand current and future needs, building effective FinOps teams, partnering with providers, and ongoing monitoring of key performance metrics. 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

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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5 ways to measure and improve your QA Effectiveness; is your vendor up to the mark?

Trigent

The benefits of QA testing in software are widely accepted. The performance of software development can be measured by the difficulty and amount of code committed in a given sprint. Measuring the effectiveness of QA is harder when its success is measured by the lack of problems in software application deployment to production.

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IT Leaders’ Top 5 Outsourcing Headaches

Seerene

Companies increasingly rely on software to run their business, yet it often requires expertise and specialization that is outside their wheelhouse. They find it’s faster and less risky to pull in providers who know how to implement and manage the systems at scale. Measuring outsourcing value.

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Fleet Management Software: Key Functions, Solutions, and Innovations

Altexsoft

In this article, we’ll describe the fleet management software (FMS), its core modules and functions, overview the major FMS providers, ending up with what is currently trending in this industry. What is fleet management software? Fleet management information workflow, Source: Exeros Technologies. proper routing).