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Vendor Management

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Vendor management refers to the selection, monitoring, and relationship management of external suppliers. Effective vendor management optimizes supplier performance and value.

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Private Cloud27%

How do you think CIOs, CTOs should work with some of the younger companies to mature their solutions in parallel to making sure that they're not compromising, especially with the breaches, their stakeholders and company integrity?

Oracle has announced that, effective January 2019, Java SE 8 public updates will no longer be available for Business, Commercial or Production use without a commercial license. How does this affect you? How you plan to engage Java SE8 going forward and what other vendors are you considering?

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We've had an explosion of SaaS and 'shadow IT'. What is the future of SaaS management? What is important when considering a vendor here?

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What's a greater concern for returning to the office? Comment how you are prioritizing...

Human Factors (fears, mental health, physical spacing)85%

Technical / IT Factors (on-premise tools, pivoting back away from remote)14%

What tools are you using to juggle your multi vendor relationships?

My firm is preparing to implement a formal vendor management program. I'm kind of interested in following others' lead here. Are you doing this internally or externally? How much are you spending (FTE doing this could be a proxy)? How many high risk vendors do you have that need to be proactively managed? And finally, are you in a regulated industry?

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Are you working with Oracle Java SE licenses for your enterprise usage? Have you performed a risk analysis to determine the pro/con of not buying the Java Subscription? (reference article https://www.aspera.com/en/blog/oracle-will-charge-for-java-starting-in-2019)

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With evergrowing use of SaaS applications in an enterprise, I am curious to hear how IT Leaders are managing the consumption of SaaS licenses? I am noticing a few kinds of waste:
1. Users have license allocated to them but they don't use it. (shelfware)
2. User left the company but the license wasn't de-provisioned
3. The user has a need but at a very less frequency which means not a real need for a dedicated license.

Are leaders on this forum using some SaaS licensing management product or doing home grown coding to manage it?

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What are you most looking for from vendors that pitch you?

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If you have had a negative experience with a vendor (without naming the vendor), what did you learn from it?

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How do I combat Cloud vendor lock-in fear?

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What tools are you using to juggle your multi vendor relationships?

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What is your primary deciding factor in adopting enterprise search?

TCO18%

Pricing25%

Integrations20%

Alignment with Cloud Provider8%

Security10%

Alignment with Existing IT Skills5%

Product / Feature Set8%

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