The moment your company starts using more than one vendor, you begin to make a realization: Managing them, their needs, and your relationships takes serious coordination. At first, you may try using ...

Yet the greatest vulnerability lies not only with third-party vendors but also with the organizations that fail to fortify their own defenses and partnerships. Organizations themselves must rethink ...

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Commentary - As 60-70% of an enterprise’s IT budget is spent on hardware, software, and external vendor services, maximizing the value derived from IT vendors is key to delivering efficient IT ...

Firms have never had more choice when it comes to buying software and services. So broad is the spread of services available via major cloud platforms that businesses increasingly find themselves ...

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 ...

Service-level agreements and key performance indicators are the most common ways to measure a vendor’s performance. While these types of metrics are highly quantitative, they’re fundamentally flawed ...

Selecting the right vendors and properly managing vendor relationships can help protect your company from damages and long-term losses. As more work is outsourced to specialized vendors, companies ...

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Security vendor Tripwire develops technology to take on security event and log management, while Ipswitch’s network management division WhatsUp Gold acquires Dorian Software to address customer ...