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Vendor Consolidation: An Opportunity to View IT Through a Single Pane of Glass

Overview IT managers have traditionally avoided becoming "Too involved" with a single vendor, preferring to spread their IT investments among several vendors in order to maintain vendor independence. Reducing the number of vendors necessary to conduct effective IT operations offers the benefits of simplifying both IT infrastructure and the processes needed for IT to do business. Tight linkages with a single vendor will result in CAPEX improvements, while OPEX reductions will derive from simplified technology management and from streamlining the business processes associated with vendor management.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Enterprise Management Associates	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Business Management

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