vendor management
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IT continues to "outsource" to cloud, managed service, and other providers. As a result, IT (and the organization as a whole) becomes more reliant on these vendors, and vendor management becomes increasingly necessary to manage the relationships and manage the risks. Implementing a vendor management initiative is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity.
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Book NowHow do you manage SaaS apps and vendors, AND keep data secure and confidential?
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Manage SaaS applications and vendors without compromising security, and retain an excellent user experience.
Manage SaaS applications and vendors without compromising security, and retain an excellent user experience.. Businesses of all sizes are actively adopting web-based, hosted applications provided by Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors such as Salesforce.com, WebEx, and Google.
Do you have information on SOA and ESB, including vendors and best practices?
Knowledge Base: Applications
The reality is that although SOA (and related technologies) have been around for a number of years, the adoption rate is still fairly small. The reason for that is that it simply doesn't make sense for many businesses.
Look at a few of the vendors in the space: IBIS-RBE, Intellicorp LiveCompare, Panaya, and SAP-Solution Manager. IBIS/RBE offers services that generally analyze the current production environment. Unlike the definition above (testing change impact), the services here are focused more on performance of the current system as it is currently used.
What are some of the best practices for implementing restaurant POS, and how about viable vendors?
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A helpful discussion and resources covering restaurant POS vendors and best practices.
Maitre’D. Offers solid a product, and likely one of the better known vendors for the industry. POS Systems Ltd. Considered a “one-stop-shop” for all things POS. POS Nation. Specializes in easy-to-use, fully customizable POS systems. WiCloud.
Do you have any information related to Meaningful Use legislation?
Knowledge Base: Data & Business Intelligence
Reporting and Administration as related to Meaningful Use
The PSC Info Group, a Valley Forge, Pa.-based vendor has solutions for hospitals, physician groups, clinical labs, managed care providers, and others. They have been involved with healthcare solutions for over 25 years and are members of many healthcare-related groups.
When looking at app PM methodologies, what considerations should I make?
Knowledge Base: Applications
When we begin to look at project methodologies, best practices for running projects, many businesses are turning to Agile or Agile-like methods in order to find success with the deliverables.
Many of the vendors showcased in Vendor Landscape: Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Vendor Landscape: Mid-Market Project Portfolio Management will have tools and advice on their sites related to projects that will be helpful.
What are some advantages and disadvantages if I am currently considering Application Development Outsourcing?
Knowledge Base: Applications
The advantages and disadvantages of application development outsourcing.
A vendor who believes that the customer is always right tries to implement the project as the customer wants it, which finally leads to a total mess. To avoid this kind of situation, try to find out as much as you can about IT development outsourcing from your contacts and… from articles like this.
Do you have an overview of the requirements management market?
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Requirements Management Solutions are essentially a very focused subsection of the more complete ALM suite of tools. A truly comprehensive approach to traceability would archive, index, and link everything.
Vendor Landscape: Application Lifecycle Management - ALM solutions are not solely about managing requirements, tasks, or dealing with bugs over the course of a project. ALM solutions are in fact the completestory. The reality in business (and elsewhere) is simply that every significant software development project includes many different people.
Do you have any details about online proctoring?
Knowledge Base: Data & Business Intelligence
There are essentially two different forms of Online Proctoring: remote live proctoring and remote web proctoring. Determine what the vendors are currently offering and what works best for your organization.
The vendor is located in Edmonton, Canada. The proctoring solution specifically can provide physical test centers with certified proctors or they offer what they call a virtual proctoring service.
As a professional services firm, how do I manage my development environment from an organizational and methodological perspective?
Knowledge Base: Applications
Learn how to manage application development to focus on consistency and following standard tools, environments, and techniques.
Can you estimate usage for performance testing applications?
Knowledge Base: Applications
This FAQ will give advice around creating real-world production scenarios and the considerations that must be taken to come up with an accurate calculation.
What are the pros and cons of fat and thin architectures, and will thin replace fat in the future?
Knowledge Base: Applications
The future of thin client architecture and an overview of the pros and cons for fat vs. thin architectures.
There are many other pluses and minuses for each approach, although as you have seen and stated, the trend across many businesses regardless of industry, isa move towards thin client systems, primarily because thin client systems can support on-demand and other Internet-based applications with relatively little administrative or technical support.
What do we need to know to move to SharePoint 2013?
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SharePoint 2013 (or SharePoint 15 depending on your viewpoint) is in beta and as of this writing, no official release date has been announced. However, it has been suggested that general availability is currently slated for "early 2013."
Bottom line, if you have developers working through business processes using SharePoint as a development platform, then by all means make sure they have access to the beta, let them kick it around for a while, build your processes, etc. Eventually they will advise the business when it is time to roll it out.
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