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Manage Your Software and Providers or Waste Money Unnecessarily

Posted by Robert Kugel on 19 September 2011

I was reminded by a recent piece in InformationWeek about the need to manage the mounting cost of software more carefully that this issue never seems to become old news. I have read variations of it in IT trade publications for two decades now, reminding me of the quip attributed to Mark Twain: Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it. (Like many of Twain’s “quotes,” he wasn’t the author of this one either.) I believe that at the heart of this issue is a...

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Topics: assets, Office of Finance, Portfolio Management, contract management, Business Performance Management (BPM), Financial Performance Management (FPM), Software