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

CIO

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 wide array of cloud-based infrastructure and business systems is currently in use at most organizations, including virtual machines and containers as well as customer relationship management (CRM) and human resources management systems. But, cloud findings are hardly the only source.