THE ORIGINA BLOG

How Sainsbury’s Revitalized Their Chain of IT Suppliers

How Sainsbury’s Revitalized Their Chain of IT Suppliers

Learn how Sainsbury’s achieved $10 million (and counting) in supplier cost reduction. Best practices, insights, and talking points for all businesses.

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The Year of the Healthy Skeptic: A New Way of Thinking for IT Leaders

The Year of the Healthy Skeptic: A New Way of Thinking for IT Leaders

An in-depth look at Empower 2023 thought-provoking roundtables, interviews and bright ideas curated for IT, procurement, and software asset management professionals.

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CVE-2023-23477: IBM WebSphere Vulnerability Information and Remediation Advice

CVE-2023-23477: IBM WebSphere Vulnerability Information and Remediation Advice

A new, potentially high-severity IBM® Websphere vulnerability has been published and is ready to give your business another headache. Harden your perimeter with advice from our cybersecurity team.

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Rethinking Patch-First Approach: Effective Strategies for Securing Your Business Technology

Rethinking Patch-First Approach: Effective Strategies for Securing Your Business Technology

Software security patches can’t consider your unique business and technology context. When securing your software estate, a fuller view of security and performance is necessary. Learn more about a multi-layer approach that does more than tick a box.

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Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM (And Other Too-Safe Thinking)

Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM (And Other Too-Safe Thinking)

The business technology landscape looks nothing like it did in the ‘80s or ‘90s. Why do we continue to place our trust in untrue “truisms” from those eras that land companies in bad spots?

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Becoming a Healthy Skeptic

Becoming a Healthy Skeptic

Discover ways to evaluate and optimize your digital agenda to ensure you are getting the most out of your current technology. 

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Legacy Applications Benefit From Continuous Modernization, Maintenance

Legacy Applications Benefit From Continuous Modernization, Maintenance

According to Gartner, implementing continuous modernization with more mature software applications can minimize cost, risk, and downtime.

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Skills Gap Hits IT Departments

Skills Gap Hits IT Departments

By 2030, more than 85 million jobs could go unfilled because there aren’t enough skilled people to take them, including many legacy software support positions. Who will maintain your systems?

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Who’s got the skills to maintain your mainframe software?

Who’s got the skills to maintain your mainframe software?

Organizations reliant upon mainframes for critical business operations are facing a lack of skilled technical support resources within their in-house team and at major software vendors, which can create downtime emergencies.

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How IT Vendors Restrict Their Clients’ Freedom of Choice

How IT Vendors Restrict Their Clients’ Freedom of Choice

The freedom to choose your vendor relationships, solutions and services is critical to ensuring that you receive valuable services at a fair market price.

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Co-op Partners with Origina to Accelerate their Digital Transformation

Co-op Partners with Origina to Accelerate their Digital Transformation

We are pleased to announce a new partnership with Co-op, one of the world’s largest consumer co-operatives with interests across food, funerals, insurance and legal services, who have selected Origina to help with the management of their on-premise IBM® software estate.

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IBM MQ End of Support Dates in 2021: What You Need to Know