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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO Business Intelligence

“Proactive and collaborative partnerships are built successfully if both sides avoid the trappings of a purely transactional relationship,” says Anja Allen, principal in the technology consulting practice at EY Consulting. “If This deepens and elevates your relationship into a strategic partnership and can lead to innovative solutions.”

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Transforming IT for digital success

CIO Business Intelligence

Many aspire to do better, though, with 43% of the transformers seeking to improve their performance. One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. Become truly customer-centric Attention to customers pays off.

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What is a project management office (PMO)? The key to standardizing project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Debra Chin, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and program manager/consultant with ROC Implementation & Management Group (ROCIMG), describes the PMO more succinctly, saying, “It’s a centralized point that helps manage projects.” An enterprise PMO can operate as a controlling, supportive, or directive PMO.

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Goodbye Oracle Discoverer, Hello Next-Generation Reporting

Jet Global

Using OBIEE as Discoverer’s replacement is intended to help unlock the power of your information with robust reporting, ad hoc query and analysis, OLAP, dashboard, and scorecard functionality that offers the end user an experience that comes with visualization, collaboration, alert capabilities, and more. But does OBIEE stack up?