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The CIO Agenda: Ready for Change

By Dean Alms, John Barnes, Dan Barth, Brian Day, Craig Guarente, David Rowe

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Every CIO wants to deliver value to the business, with infrastructure and applications moving to the cloud, improved user experiences, and security that scales across their hybrid environments. Yet, limited resources, constrained budgets and risk of upsetting the status-quo can get in the way. These assets address why CIOs should think about risk differently, how to move IT funding around to make the greatest impact, and why 3rd party support is on the CIO’s agenda.

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Take Back Control of Your Oracle Relationship

Regardless of your desired direction with Oracle, whether moving toward or moving away, every company that uses Oracle must understand their Oracle license entitlements and software usage.

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3 Optimization Strategies of Successful CIOs

With the amount of innovation and disruptive new solution offers hitting the market every quarter, the pressure has never been greater on CIOs to take the reins of leadership in guiding their companies through digital transformation.

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The Future (And Reality) Of Autonomous Enterprise Software

Autonomous enterprise software is a near-certainty for the future, but how close is it to reality today?

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The Future of Computing Is Bigger Than the Cloud

To fit well into this new era, traditional software will have to take on some of the positive characteristics of cloud software.

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Biggest Obstacle to Innovation, IT Leaders Say: "Keeping the Lights On"

Nearly 90% of those surveyed agreed their organizations ought to be spending more on innovation, and 77% said a major obstacle is “spending too much keeping the lights on.”

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5 Ways To Fund Innovation On A Budget

Those who don’t try to create the future, particularly with emerging digital technologies, risk being left in the dust by those who do. That’s why it’s vitally important to carve out resources to explore, experiment and ask big...

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How Database Administrators Can Keep (or Improve) Their Jobs in the Cloud Era

Database administrators are always in demand, especially as the amount of data that businesses collect is increasing.

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Five Steps for Bringing About Change in IT

Developing more cost-effective support models for legacy applications can help free up necessary resources.

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Taking Control of Your Software Licenses in the Cloud Era

Traditional enterprise software licensing has been great for entrepreneurs and investors. For enterprises, not so much—until now.

05/14/18

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It’s Time to Tackle the Legacy Support Challenge — Podcast Episode 6

Welcome to the Liberate2Innovate podcast series, brought to you by IDG and sponsored by Rimini Street. These podcasts feature leading industry experts in conversation with IDG’s Tom Schmidt on a variety of topics imperative to IT...

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How to Survive a Nasty Software Vendor Audit

When software vendor auditors push too far, enterprise technology leaders must be prepared to push back.

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Take an Artful Approach to Attracting and Retaining Talent

You’ve committed to digital transformation, now you just have to figure out how to hire and retain the top IT talent needed to pull it off.

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Four Best Practices to Reduce the Pain of an Oracle License Audit

How does an organization implement a license compliance strategy that will successfully mitigate the risk of compliance findings in future vendor audits? Here are some best practices to reduce risk.

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Protecting Your Data in Enterprise Cloud Computing Agreements

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Funding Digital Transformation

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