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Business IT users condemn Broadcom's market behaviour and call on European Commission for appropriate action
Thursday 28 March 2024 Today, CIO Platform Netherlands and its three European sister associations sent a joint letter to the European Commission following possible market-distorting behaviour by Broadcom since its acquisition of VMware. full storyFair principle 11: The scope, execution and intended outcome of an audit shall be clearly defined in the contract.
Monday 03 October 2022 Business users associations Beltug, Voice, Cigref and CIO Platform Nederland call for a balanced cloud market: 11 fair principles to unleash Europe’s digital potential. Fair principle 9 calls for commercial models to not be changed unilaterally and be adhering to an active ‘opt-in’ principle. full storyFair Principle 10: Commercial models and offerings shall be consistent and reasonable, not combining different models for the benefit of the vendor’s revenue
Tuesday 27 September 2022 Business users associations Beltug, Voice, Cigref and CIO Platform Nederland call for a balanced cloud market: 11 fair principles to unleash Europe’s digital potential. Fair principle 9 calls for commercial models to not be changed unilaterally and be adhering to an active ‘opt-in’ principle. full storyFair Principle 9: Commercial models shall not be changed unilaterally and adhere to an active ‘opt-in’ principle.
Thursday 15 September 2022 Business users associations Beltug, Voice, Cigref and CIO Platform Nederland call for a balanced cloud market: 11 fair principles to unleash Europe’s digital potential. Fair principle 9 calls for commercial models to not be changed unilaterally and be adhering to an active ‘opt-in’ principle. full storyFair Principle 8: Service levels and product specifications shall be explicitly listed and take the context of the customer into account
Thursday 08 September 2022 Business users associations Beltug, Voice, Cigref and CIO Platform Nederland call for a balanced cloud market: 11 fair principles to unleash Europe’s digital potential. Fair principle 8 calls for service levels and product specifications to being explicitly listed and taking the context of the customer into account. full storyFair Principle 7: Contractual terms shall allow customers to use progressive or innovative technologies and deployment models.
Tuesday 23 August 2022 Business users associations Beltug, Voice, Cigref and CIO Platform Nederland call for a balanced cloud market: 11 fair principles to unleash Europe’s digital potential. Fair principle 7 calls for that the contractual conditions should enable customers to make use of advanced or innovative technologies and usage models. full storyFair Principle 6: Contractual terms for licensing and subscriptions shall be free from geographic and entity restrictions.
Wednesday 10 August 2022 Business users associations Beltug, Voice, Cigref and CIO Platform Nederland call for a balanced cloud market: 11 fair principles to unleash Europe’s digital potential. Fair principle 6 calls for contractual terms for licensing and subscriptions to be free from geographic and entity restrictions. full storyFair Principle 5: Contractual terms shall not restrict or discriminate for customer’s choice of cloud provider, outsourcing partner or hardware platform
Thursday 28 July 2022 Business users associations Beltug, Voice, Cigref and CIO Platform Nederland call for a balanced cloud market: 11 fair principles to unleash Europe’s digital potential. Fair principle 5 calls for contractual terms to not restrict or discriminate for customer’s choice of cloud provider, outsourcing partner or hardware platform. full storyFair Principle 4: Contractual terms and conditions shall be clear and unambiguous. They shall not be unilaterally changeable.
Thursday 14 July 2022 Business users associations Beltug, Voice, Cigref and CIO Platform Nederland call for a balanced cloud market: 11 fair principles to unleash Europe’s digital potential. Fair principle 4 states contractual terms and conditions shall be clear, unambiguous and not unilaterally changeable. full storyFair Principle 3: Customers shall remain in control of their own data and all the data uploaded or processed by the service/solution.
Thursday 30 June 2022 Business users associations Beltug, Voice, Cigref and CIO Platform Nederland call for a balanced cloud market: 11 fair principles to unleash Europe’s digital potential. Fair principle 3 calls for customers to remain in control of their own data and all the data uploaded or processed by the service/solution. full storyFair Principle 2: Vendors must not create a technical or commercial lock-in
Thursday 23 June 2022 Business users associations Beltug, Voice, Cigref and CIO Platform Nederland call for a balanced cloud market: 11 fair principles to unleash Europe’s digital potential. Fair principle 2 calls for every vendor to avoid creating a technical or commercial lock-in. full storyFair Principle 1: Vendors shall fulfil existing regulatory obligations
Thursday 16 June 2022 Business users associations Beltug, Voice, Cigref and CIO Platform Nederland call for a balanced cloud market: 11 fair principles to unleash Europe’s digital potential. Fair principle 1 calls for every vendor to fulfil existing regulatory obligations. full storyCIOPN has four recommendations for informateurs in establishing the coalition agreement’s outline
Monday 18 October 2021 CIO Platform Nederland has sent a letter to the informateurs drawing their attention to the interests and issues of the business user. full storyCIO-associations demand: Microsoft, improve on sustainability and security!
Friday 08 October 2021 On October 8th, 2021, CIO Platform Nederland, Beltug, Cigref and Voice issued a joint press release. In it, we call on Microsoft to address the unnecessary environmental damage caused by its commercial policies and to take more responsibility for safe products, so that business users no longer have to pay the huge costs of its unsafe products. Microsoft is not alone in this, but as the market leader it has a particular responsibility. full storyLaunch guideline for successful cooperation
Tuesday 18 May 2021 In close cooperation between CIO Platform Nederland and NLdigital the ‘Guideline for successful cooperation’ has been launched. The guideline provides guidance towards more predictability and transparency in the relationship between providers and users of software. Download the guideline, implement it and make sure to let us know to what extent the guideline is (in)effective in practice. full storyArticle by FD about GDPR-compliance featuring CIO Platform Nederland finds national audience
Monday 12 April 2021 On April 5th, the Financieele Dagblad published an article with contributions from CIO Platform Nederland about the issues business users face concerning compliance with the GDPR. The article did not remain unnoticed, but also contained a few inaccuracies. Please find below both amendments and a reference to the parliamentary questions asked and other publications in the media based on the article. full storyMeeting with vice-president of the European Commission, Margarethe Vestager’s Cabinet
Monday 06 July 2020 On Wednesday morning July 1, Arthur Govaert and Ronald Verbeek, along with colleagues from Beltug, Cigref and Voice, spoke to mr. Werner Stengg and mr. Michele Piergiovanni from the cabinet of vice-president of the European Commission (EC), mrs. Margarethe Vestager. full storyCIO Platform Nederland in FD news ‘The stranglehold of the software giants’
Friday 11 October 2019 The Dutch business newspaper ‘Het Financieele Dagblad’ (FD) paid attention to a topic that is urgent to CIOs: the need for large software vendors to adapt and balance their behaviour towards customers. The article has now been translated by FD from Dutch into English. full storyUrgent letter CIO Platform Nederland to the DPA’s to test software together
Tuesday 24 September 2019 Today CIO Platform Nederland has sent a letter to the board of Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP, Dutch DPA) the Dutch Data Protection Authority. In it we call on AP to set up a program together with the other European DPA’s that should lead to better compliance of commonly used software products, services and the associated conditions with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). full storyResults Supplier Satisfaction Survey 2018 released
Thursday 29 November 2018 The results of the ‘EuroCIO Supplier Satisfaction Survey’ reveals a slowdown of cloud adoption and an increase of exit strategies and actions due to inflexible vendor licensing and pricing models. full storyNews from EuroCIO
Thursday 04 October 2018 EuroCIO Supplier Satisfaction Survey reveals weak points in vendor relationships, and need for more balanced, innovative partnerships. full storyGood commissioning is done together!
Tuesday 18 September 2018 With participants from the constituencies of the CIO Platform Nederland and Nederland ICT, we discussed how we can take steps towards effective collaboration. With the aim to improve the relationship between customers and contractors in ICT and to achieve successful projects. full storyCloud is still a challenge
Monday 16 October 2017 On October 12th, we organized an interesting themesession about Cloud Challenges, with attention for GDPR, a Cloud strategy and Cloud Management Portals. full storyConcrete Cloud results from the EU
Thursday 23 February 2017 On February 15th, the CIO Platform Nederland was attending the plenairy meeting of the European Commission Cloud Select Industry Group (C-SIG). full story