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The CIO’s guide to smarter vendor negotiation: 10 tips

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Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.” IT sourcing is a team sport,” says Peterson.

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Cloud Leaders Sound Off on Key Challenges

Tenable

A large majority of respondents (67%) have three or more identity and access management systems in place and there can be five different types of teams involved in managing these systems: IT operations (77%), security operations (61%), ID and access (53%), risk and compliance (36%), and governance (32%).