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IDG Connect interviewed 421 senior staff working for companies headquartered in the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Switzerland and Norway. The majority (69%) of organisations represented employ over 5,000 people, with 39 percent employing in excess of 10,000 staff. See what their respondents had to say about this by downloading their full report.

IDG Connect conducted a survey on behalf of Rimini Street to find out future strategies and current concerns of more than 400 senior IT executives and CIOs across Europe. The survey was conducted to understand the role that ERP applications will play in the future and how their role may change as businesses strive for a more digital operating environment.  Download to read more...

The expectation is that by 2020 over half of a company’s infrastructure will be outside the company’s own data center, and for a good reason. The cloud is making it much easier to perform business activities. Employees have direct access to the capacity and services that they need to innovate in a targeted way. 

In the past, the world of procurement was a fairly straightforward one. Licenses were purchased and costs for the coming period were clear. Cloud services are provided on a subscription or pay-per-use basis, however. How is control exercised in such a context?

To make license recognition easier, Arla Foods also opted for Snow Software’s Recognition Service. This takes the legwork out of recognizing and understanding which software applications have been installed across the 70 dairies, recognizing applications from more than 60,000 software publishers and starting the moment audit data is imported from the inventory solution into Snow License Manager.

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Roadmap to Best Practices of IT Integrated Procurement Talking to many CIOs, CFOs and CPOs on IT Integrated Procurement and the pain points are always the same--- “Show me how to consolidate, streamline, cut costs, reduce risk and optimize.  Increase efficiency and make the processes that are used, better and simpler.  Ultimately, how can I optimize IT spend and get the greatest value from all areas of IT and IT Procurement?”  Optimizing spend is realized through both people and processes---- vendor management, contract and asset management, controlling Tail Spend and leveraging supplier diversity. Placing greater emphasis on value of assets, as in total cost of ownership, including value in relationships and creating partnerships.  This White Paper will explore these pain points through key questions and provide a basic Best Practices Roadmap on IT Integrated Procurement and driving value via people and processes.