3 challenges with vendor management on the cloud that you cannot overlook An organization’s IT landscape has become more like a web, with multiple vendors involved in the IT-enabled delivery of business solutions. Vendors are proving to be critical for enterprises to meet increasing customer demands.

With an increase of outsourcing duties in cloud computing, vendors are also taking on increasingly fundamental roles in enterprise operations. As the scope, scale and complexity of vendor relationships and…

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7 reasons you should move vendor management to the cloud Organizations across the world are seeking for opportunities to create an efficient and increased collaboration across buyer and supplier groups by implementing cloud solution.

IT leaders for procurement and sourcing applications are turning towards cloud service delivery for evaluating new solutions. Cloud solutions have seen a steady growth as enterprises today require scalability, agility,…

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Are you spending too much on IaaS? (Part 1 of 2) IaaS is a rapidly growing methodology in cloud technology. It is a self-service model for accessing, monitoring and managing remote data center infrastructure. Instead of buying hardware, organizations and enterprises can purchase IaaS, which is based on consumption. With IaaS, users can gain instant productivity and increased capacity. Even though IaaS provides several benefits, businesses have little visibility into or control over their cloud solutions’ true cost.

As organizations are making more use of public cloud IaaS, it must have the ability to monitor, manage and optimize the use of IaaS services in a cost-effective manner. Business…

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3 steps to move Procure-To-Pay to the cloud computing The main objective of a Procure-To-Pay software system is to automate processes by introducing efficiency controls. For example, to enforce buying controls, the Procure-To-Pay software may cross-reference purchasing budgets. This will ensure the budget’s compliance with pre-defined buying limits.

A requisition that is within pre-defined limits will get programmatically routed for approval. Once it gets approved, a purchase order is immediately sent to the correct supplier by email. A…

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Devising a long-term cloud strategy with independent scaling Organizations and enterprises today are showing great interest in cloud. Companies are moving their social and line-of-business applications to SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS environments. This means that there will be greater demand from enterprises over time to migrate database and analytic workloads to the cloud. This is the reason that enterprises and organizations now are seeking new cloud-based approaches to accommodate their growing requirements.

One such approach is called Independent scaling. Independent scaling is also called as separation of storage and computing resources. It has enabled data and analytics leaders to solve scalability and…

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