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Technology, and especially artificial intelligence (AI), is changing the way business gets done. In virtually every market worldwide, automation, business intelligence, and new systems are ...

There are hundreds of enterprise tools in the marketplace to manage the many different facets in an organization: project management, client relationship management, internal/external business ...

The State of Trust Report by Vanta, which surveyed IT and business leaders in the U.S., U.K., and Australia in July 2025, found that nearly half (46%) of all respondents experienced a data breach from ...

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 ...

Increase buying power, identifying cost-savings and influencing the strategic vendor performance all sound like practical outcomes of establishing a vendor-management office (VMO). Then why is it that ...

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 ...

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Vendor relationship management is critical ...

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 ...

Outsourcing the management of outsourcers has been a controversial approach in the past, but the increased demands of IT service management may be too much for some IT groups to handle themselves.

In the pharmaceutical industry, a vendor refers to an external entity or supplier that provides goods, materials, services, or specialized expertise to pharmaceutical companies. These vendors play a ...