Effective vendor management allows organizations to control costs, drive service excellence and mitigate risks to maximize value from their vendors throughout the contract. Strategic IT leaders can ...

Enterprise application vendors like SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Siebel, are on a collision course with infrastructure vendors like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and BEA. Application vendors are offering ...

Effective application inventory management is a cornerstone for businesses aiming to maintain robust security, ensure compliance, and optimize operational workflows. Keeping track of all the software ...

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Managing external partners has become a critical part of doing business today. As companies expand and rely more on outsourcing, the risks tied to outside vendors grow larger. Businesses can face ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ETWO), a leading network-based provider of a cloud-based, mission-critical, end-to-end supply chain management platform, has been ...

More traditional management vendors are looking to add traffic analysis components to their monitoring tools, touting the benefits of knowing application flows and digging into packet-level details.

When customers are not happy with a vendor, 91% of the time they decide not to work with that organization again. IT vendors and suppliers should take note, as they can play a key role in the growth ...

Vendor management is the process of controlling costs, driving service excellence and mitigating risks to gain increased value from vendors throughout the deal life cycle. This strategy is crucial in ...

In June 2023, the MOVEit supply chain attack served as a harsh reminder of the vulnerabilities in our software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecosystem. Third-party risk management (TPRM) in today's world of ...

Vendor Management Appreciation Day Awards The holiday, coined by PaymentWorks, celebrated and elevated the indispensable contributions of vendor management staff across all organization types and ...