There are many ways IT buyers can reduce IT overspend – but none more effective than IT price benchmark analysis. What makes this tactic so effective? Why are more enterprises including it as part of their IT purchasing (and renewal) process?
Enterprises have been slow to migrate to SAP S/4HANA, but that’s changing. NPI provides tips on how to unlock savings and eliminate overspending risk as customers strategize and operationalize their conversion roadmaps.
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Enterprises have many options for contracting with Microsoft. In this guide, we explore commonly-used direct and indirect contractual vehicles for purchasing Microsoft’s enterprise solutions, what different agreements do and do not cover, and who sets pricing for each option.
As companies become increasingly comfortable with cloud environments, the cloud purchase itself presents new risks and challenges. If not carefully navigated, overspending threatens to neutralize the value of the benefits that have attracted companies to a cloud delivery model. The quality of each buyer’s sourcing and vendor management capabilities has a big impact on this evolving subcategory of IT spend.
Digital transformation is a reality, and for most companies, the stakes are high: leverage a broad mix of digital technologies to grow and transform the business, or risk obsolescence. This reality is reframing the way companies think about all aspects of IT, including sourcing. In the digital transformation era, optimized IT sourcing practices can deliver more value to the business than ever before.
One challenge enterprise IT buyers face is SaaS spend governance, and that’s evidenced by an increasing rate of wasteful spend on large SaaS estates. In this white paper, we explore what makes the SaaS licensing model so difficult to govern, how to optimize SaaS licensing. the value SaaS license optimization delivers to the business, and how to prioritize which SaaS estates to optimize (and how often).