Businesses choose to outsource in order to reduce operational costs and to focus on core business tasks. According to Think Progress Economy, a 2009 Strategic Outsourcing Conference poll showed that ...

Supplier quality management is a critical business practice for companies that increasingly outsource business processes to strategic partners and have increased reliance on vendor products and ...

SaaS brings with it a unique set of challenges for those responsible for security. Barmak Meftah, senior vice president at Fortify Software, says the most important shift is looking at your software ...

As demand within the financial services and wealth management industry increases and client expectations continue to evolve, C-level executives and advisors have turned to third-party service ...

When software vendor auditors push too far, enterprise technology leaders must be prepared to push back. In an extreme case, the food company Mars (best known for Snickers and M&M’s candies) filed a ...

Over the past few months, Microsoft Corp. and other software vendors have become less aggressive about threatening customers with audits to gauge whether they’re complying with their license contracts ...

There is an ongoing trend in the pharmaceutical industry to outsource activities to external vendors. When such outsourcing affects GMDP-activities, and is therefore related to EU Good Manufacturing ...