Vendor monitoring and management to lower risks Analytics vendors offer a free or low-cost named-user licensing that enables them to sell their products directly to business analysts. But if not properly monitored, this practice can potentially aggravate the trend to bypass traditional software procurement processes and make the analytics program even more difficult.

Most of the times, organizations face difficulty when they have to decide which licensing model would be more cost-effective for them, in the present scenario as well as in the…

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Application Rationalization: 3 steps to success Contrary to what anyone might say, application rationalization is an intense and long-term transformation of business capabilities. It requires strong governance and clearly assigned responsibilities. We look at the steps to successfully implement application rationalization.

Application rationalization is the process of analyzing the applications being used by your enterprise to determine the presence of overlapping functionalities, unused applications and sunsetting technologies in order to improve…

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Importance of adaptive sourcing strategies Innovation is one of the most popular subjects today in business and technology. It is expected that about 70% of all businesses will modify their sourcing strategies in the near future so that costs can be lowered and overall quality and flexibility can be increased.

Data and analytics leaders must become enablers of the expansion of analytics throughout the organization. Instead of trying to stop land-and-expand strategies, and in turn hinder the natural progression of…

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Why do you need SCA technology? It has been predicted by Gartner that about 30% of enterprises will adopt SCA technology by 2018 to secure their software supply chain against known vulnerabilities. We talk about the technology and try to understand the reasons behind this prediction.

Companies around the world are using open source libraries for application development. But these third party libraries can contain hidden vulnerabilities which may not be easily detectable and are further…

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What is context aware business computing? Context awareness is a property of mobile devices which is complementary to location awareness. Location, as we know, may determine how some processes around a contributing device operate. Context, on the other hand, may be applied more flexibly with mobile users, especially with smart phones. We here look at some of its business use cases.

Originating from ubiquitous computing, which sought to deal with linking changes in the environment with static computer systems, context computing is also applied to contextual application design and business process…

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