Resources
Live and On-Demand Webinars
Advancing Procurement Excellence (APEX) through webinar-based training, education and roundtables.
Upcoming Live Webinars
We venture Inside the Mind of the Vendor to better understand IT vendors’ sales playbooks – how they recruit and train, and how they plan and execute on enterprise IT transactions.
In this session, attendees will learn how to respond to vendors’ systematic sales efforts so they only buy what they need, when they need it and at fair market value.
Multiple dates
In this webinar, we will discuss the current landscape of AI tools and where AI is making a meaningful impact on day-to-day IT procurement responsibilities.
We’ll discuss how to assess and influence vendors’ AI roadmaps to align with organizational needs, and the essential skills required for an AI-enhanced procurement environment.
Multiple dates
Software license audits are on the rise. Vendors are employing new, more aggressive, and more creative tactics to sniff out non-compliance.
In this session, we’ll cover what’s driving higher audit activity, which enterprise software vendors are auditing most frequently, factors that increase your organization’s audit risk, and software audit defense best practices.
Multiple dates
As SaaS spending increases, so does the risk of overspending – especially for large, complex estates like Salesforce, Microsoft 365, Workday, SuccessFactors and others. Join NPI as we explore the internal and external dynamics that make SaaS spend management difficult, and what IT buying teams can do to eliminate SaaS cost waste.
Multiple dates
Join NPI’s Microsoft licensing expert as we share recent changes to Microsoft licensing and what's currently motivating Microsoft sales and account teams. We’ll share how to avoid common pitfalls that lead to overspending and proven tactics to help customers rein in their enterprise Microsoft spend in 2025 and beyond.
Multiple dates
SAP customers are being pushed to RISE regardless of their technology roadmap and appetite for transitioning their environment to the cloud. In this session, we will address the multiple issues and challenges facing sourcing and IT executives, how to maintain efficiencies and optimization across the RISE Bill of Materials, and how to reduce cost and risk on the SAP RISE journey.
Multiple dates
On Demand Webinars
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