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Consolidate Your Software Spend Data For Better IT Budget Planning

Smart Data Collective

There are a number of benefits associated with thorough and accurate software stack expenditure planning, including good communication between the CEO and CIO about business priorities and streamlined procurement processes. This requires planning your IT budget more carefully in order to demonstrate RoI and value add.

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Generative AI for procurement lets you eliminate the mundane, elevate the strategic, and get ready for the future

Timo Elliott

I recently got the chance to do an AI overview session for a group of procurement specialists, so here are some thoughts on some of the topics we touched upon. First, procurement is hard! Artificial intelligence for procurement isn’t new. Now is a great time to rethink procurement processes in light of artificial intelligence.

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90% Of Saas Buyers Overpay for AI-Driven Services

Smart Data Collective

Rising prices make it more important than ever for AI software buyers to track down the best value plans for their organization. However, the main challenge that company IT, finance and procurement teams face when purchasing SaaS is the lack of pricing transparency. One of their biggest struggles is finding a good price.

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What is Data Pipeline? A Detailed Explanation

Smart Data Collective

A set of steps and activities that includes procuring data from different sources, storing and transforming it and eventually delivering it to a given destination. Data Pipeline Architecture Planning. Data pipeline architecture planning is extremely important in connecting multiple sources of data and targets. Processing.

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Becoming an Intelligent, Sustainable Enterprise with SAP

Timo Elliott

With SAP, Roche used the predictive planning capabilities offered by the SAP Analytics Cloud solution, and implemented S/4HANA, allowing years of historical data to be leveraged to enable more accurate and harmonized forecasting in a matter of hours rather than weeks. They were also to reduce their supplier onboarding times by over 40%.

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How Machine Learning And Contract Management Go Together

Smart Data Collective

Have a plan for how your business should be handling contracts. Machine learning can help you understand the scope of your existing contracts and develop a plan to organize them better. While we’re planning, setting up a standard process can help a bit with streamlining. a more streamlined processes. less spent time.

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Sustainable procurement in government

Clarasys

Sustainable procurement offers a huge opportunity to affect change through working with suppliers and partners. Individual government programmes know that they must consider the environment when launching and procuring, but often don’t know where to start or what resources they might need to contribute to the net-zero ambition.