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 NowVendor Management Skills: A Critical Skill Set You Should Include in Every Interview
Tech Note: Vendor Management
Vendor management skills are essential to ensure the successful execution of your IT strategy. The ability to objectively navigate, negotiate, perform conflict resolution, and effectively execute analytical evaluation will be required at every level in IT.
Vendor management skills are essential to ensure the successful execution of your IT strategy. The ability to objectively navigate, negotiate, perform conflict resolution, and effectively execute analytical evaluation will be required at every level in IT. Increasingly, the current trend is for companies to spend more on vendors than employees.
Can a Vendor Management Initiative Influence Organizational Performance?
Tech Note: Vendor Management
Can a vendor management initiative influence organizational performance? The concise answer to this question is yes. However, this influence doesn’t occur overnight.
Your vendor management initiative must progress through four levels of influence from tactical to strategic to achieve organizational impact. Exploring Info-Tech’s Four Levels of Vendor Management Performance will guide you through your vendor management initiative’s maturation of organizational influence.
Select Tactical SaaS Vendors That Are Built to Last
Tech Note: Vendor Management
Technology buyers and IT asset managers are frequently directed to procure and support new SaaS solutions from an increasing array of small to medium-sized vendors. These vendors often lack the cachet and solid track record of their mega-vendor peers' financial and technical performance. How...
These vendors often lack the cachet and solid track record of their mega-vendor peers' financial and technical performance.
Welcome to SAP’s Connected Enterprise
Tech Note: Vendor Management
SAP seeks to turn the tables on Salesforce.com by setting the ambitious goal of taking over the number one spot in the CRM enterprise software space. At its recent Sapphire conference, SAP outlined a new data architecture strategy to be marketed under the SAP HANA Data Management Suite, which...
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Does Your Strategic Vendor Consider You a Strategic Customer?
Tech Note: Vendor Management
Whether you are using Info-Tech’s Commodity, Operational, Strategic, Tactical (C.O.S.T.) model to classify your vendors or you arbitrarily label high spend/critical vendors as strategic, it begs the question: “Does your vendor truly view you as a strategic customer?”
Vendor Management. Negotiations strategy vendor management strategic vendors.
OneTrust Launches Vendorpedia, a Combined Security and Privacy Third-Party Risk Exchange
Tech Note: Security
At the 2019 RSA Conference, OneTrust announced Vendorpedia, billed as the only security and privacy third-party risk exchange. However, it will need to increase its vendor coverage quickly to create a true value proposition.
However, it will need to increase its vendor coverage quickly to create a true value proposition.
Is Your Vendor Really Your Partner?
Tech Note: Vendor Management
Is there anything wrong with referring to your third-party relationships as partners? The debate by customers has been going on for decades with great passion in both camps: Yes, it’s okay vs. No, it’s not!
Provide Ample Time to Evaluate RFP Proposals Effectively
Tech Note: Vendor Management
Evaluating vendor proposals is one of the most critical aspects of the RFP process, secondary only to negotiations. The ironic thing is that we've seen too many clients try to abbreviate this activity, take short cuts, or even avoid it altogether. Providing ample time for your team to review...
Vendor Management. Request for Proposal RFP Request for Quote RFQ Request for Bid RFB Vendor Management Sourcing Procurement Evaluation Vendor Evaluation.
ServiceNow’s New York Release Brings a Price Increase in Disguise
Tech Note: Vendor Management
ServiceNow has mastered the art of implementing subtle license changes and price adjustments with each major release of its software, resulting in regular price increases for its customers. This has occurred with the London, Madrid, and, most recently, New York releases.
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Explore Your Options for Managing Chromebooks
Tech Note: Infrastructure & Operations
Google gives enterprise IT departments different Chrome OS management approaches. Pilot each; don’t just use the most familiar one to you.
As of June 28, 2019, these vendors are: Cisco Meraki Citrix XenMobile IBM MaaS360 ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus VMware AirWatch Chromebooks can be managed with both one of the above and with the Google Admin Console simultaneously. This knowledgebase article explains how conflicting policies are resolved.
Software Winners In a Post-Pandemic World – Atlassian Is a Refreshing Value Play
Tech Note: Vendor Management
COVID-19 has forced software companies and their suppliers to refocus efforts around prioritizing systems and workflows that are nearly 100% digital in nature. As a result, Info-Tech has observed the quick emergence of six market themes that are highly relevant post COVID-19. This note series...
Remote Work/Workflow Planning (Cure)At its core, Atlassian is a project management tool, initially designed for developers to manage project planning, design, and execution.
Beware of Free Software Licensing Help From Software Vendors
Tech Note: Vendor Management
Software vendors’ offers of licensing help or free SAM engagements may not be what they seem to be. Responding immediately out of fear or haste, without adequate preparation can leave you vulnerable to a large shortfall payment.
Choose the Right ALM Solutions to Manage Product Delivery
Tech Note: Applications
Use your application lifecycle management (ALM) tools to manage the complexity of today’s frequent deployment cycles and ensure alignment and traceability with business objectives.
Use your application lifecycle management (ALM) tools to manage the complexity of today’s frequent deployment cycles and ensure alignment and traceability with business objectives.
No Surprise: New Survey Confirms That Most Organizations Are Ineffective at Third-Party Risk Management
Tech Note: Security
A new report published by the Ponemon Institute confirms that organizations are spending an increasing amount on third-party risk management, but are failing to realize much value for their efforts. Risk prioritization may be the solution.
A new report published by the Ponemon Institute confirms that organizations are spending an increasing amount on third-party risk management, but are failing to realize much value for their efforts.
Justify Your Approach to Structuring Your ALM Environment
Tech Note: Applications
Teams want an open and integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) environment. Teams are now empowered to adopt the tools they need to address complexities and frequent changes while ensuring end-to-end artifact traceability. ALM integration hubs provide out-of-the-box connections when...
Review the ALM SoftwareReviews Category Reports to assist in your vendor selection and our Implement a Proactive and Consistent Vendor Selection Process blueprint for more information about procurement best practices (including RFP templates).Select the tools that are needed to supplement the gaps of your selected ALM solutions.
When It Comes to Contract Clauses, Equal Is Not Always Equitable
Tech Note: Vendor Management
Many contract reviewers and negotiators often assume that terms and conditions applicable to both parties must be identical or mirror each other. Nothing could be further from reality.
This will help you set the appropriate termination notice period for the vendor to provide.Keep the customer’s termination notice period short (no more than 30 days) to preserve flexibility.Use a contract management system to track termination notice obligations.Want to learn about the contract lifecycle management market space?
Prepare Now for Your ServiceNow Renewal
Tech Note: Vendor Management
ServiceNow’s growth and product diversification clearly indicates the areas in which it needs its customers to engage, grow, and expand. To obtain the best possible renewal pricing and terms, ServiceNow customers must understand what is important to ServiceNow first.
If you have executives who are willing to meaningfully engage in product demos, roadmap previews, and other senior leadership activities such as the Knowledge conference, this will reflect positively on your deal.Extended term commitments.There are many organizations with upcoming renewals set to renew for a one-year subscription term.
Project Zero Extends Its Vulnerability Disclosure Agreement to 90 Days, Changes to Follow
Tech Note: Security
Project Zero is changing its vulnerability disclosure policy to give software developers more time to patch vulnerabilities. The policy is now shifted to a stringent 90-day policy.
Business Continuity Management: What You Will and WON’T Get From a BCM Tool
Tech Note: Infrastructure & Operations
Understand what you can get from a BCM tool, and then evaluate based on your specific requirements. Due to the maturity of the market, many products will check your boxes, so your evaluation will often come down to usability and cost.
For assistance with vendor evaluation, schedule a call with an Info-Tech analyst, and leverage our BCM Tool RFP Selection Criteria template. You will typically find multiple vendors that meet your requirements (again, due to the maturity of the market). At that point, it becomes a usability and cost decision.
Puzzle Solving for Hybrid-Cloud, Multi-Cloud, and Containers in a Virtual World
Tech Note: Infrastructure & Operations
With the advent of containers in the emerging technology space and accompanying market excitement, there is much confusion over how to manage applications in legacy virtualized environments. Compound this with the ever-increasing number of converged and hyper-converged offerings, and CIOs may...
Vendors offering cloud technology have ramped up their marketing and sales machines and bring an entourage of sales and product specialists.
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