Software license audit activity has steadily increased over the last decade. But there are troubling indicators that IT vendors will be targeting customers more heavily in the coming months. What’s behind this shift? What can companies do now to prepare?
When it comes to optimizing large software estates like Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce, what is IT procurement’s role? How can practitioners optimize licensing and cost across these complex, mega areas of spend? NPI and Procurement Foundry join IT procurement executives from American Airlines and ADM to discuss where practitioners can make a meaningful impact, tactics and best practices they can deploy, and in-the-trenches insights into common challenges and opportunities.
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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.
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).