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Dealing with a steady stream of pitches from IT vendors can begin to feel like a waste of time after awhile. However, avoiding these pitches altogether can mean losing out on important opportunities, Read more...

You might uphold the best information security practices around, but your data is only as safe as your weakest link, and that link could be a third party. Partners and suppliers that have access to Read more...

In an effort to improve products and services from vendors, Ken Piddington, CIO of Global Partners LP, came up with a creative program that turns vendors into partners. The Strategic Partner Program Read more...

The ERP market has seen a lot of mergers and acquisitions activity recently, and while the shake-up may not have had a direct impact on you, it likely will down the road. To maximize your own Read more...

If you find your relationship with technology vendors to be an ongoing exercise in frustration and annoyance, consider yourself typical. The sales and marketing practices of vendors are rife with Read more...

Over the past 10 years, enterprises widely rejected being locked into a single vendor's offerings, as open source and web-based architectures created more options for purchasing best of breed. While Read more...

As more IT functions are provided by outside sources, suppliers take on a growing role in the enterprise. However, the relationships between vendors and customers still come with frustrations, and Read more...

If you are like most CIOs, you've seen a project or two crash and burn, and you've seen good reasons to blame the vendors. But, if you are like most CIOs, you tend not to blame them out loud. CIO Read more...

Whatever you do, don't choose a vendor based on price alone. That's just one piece of advice offered by three CIOs at a roundtable held by market research firm Forrester. Price is a reasonable Read more...

While the role of CIO is of chief importance in many companies, some companies are actually eliminating it, citing a desire to roll the tasks into another business unit and other strategic and Read more...