Adidas Heads to the Cloud to Control IT Spending

Adidas Latin America decided to implement cloud-based procurement software to improve internal compliance and consolidate spending management. The company is a regional subsidiary of theAdidas Group sporting goods empire, which includes brands such as Adidas, Reebok and Rockport. Procurement at $1.4 billion Adidas Latin America was complex--involving different currencies and languages--and disjointed. Some countries had developed...

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Nine security controls to look for in cloud contracts

To help ease the concerns of cloud security, which Gartner says is still a chief inhibitor to enterprise public cloud adoption, buyers are looking to contracts and service-level agreements to mitigate their risks. But Gartner cloud security analyst Jay Heiser says SLAs are still "weak" and "unsatisfying" in terms of addressing security, business continuity and assessment of security controls. RELATED: Gartner's state...

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