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Master Contract Review and Negotiation for Software Agreements
Optimize spend with significant cost savings and negotiate from a position of strength.
- Internal stakeholders usually have different – and often conflicting – needs and expectations that require careful facilitation and management.
- Vendors have well-honed negotiating strategies. Without understanding your own position and leverage points, it’s difficult to withstand their persuasive – and sometimes pushy – tactics.
- Software – and software licensing – is constantly changing, making it difficult to acquire and retain subject matter expertise.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Conservatively, it’s possible to save 5% of the overall IT budget through comprehensive software contract review.
- Focus on the terms and conditions, not just the price.
- Learning to negotiate is crucial.
Impact and Result
- Look at your contract holistically to find cost savings.
- Guide communication between vendors and your organization for the duration of contract negotiations.
- Redline the terms and conditions of your software contract.
- Prioritize crucial terms and conditions to negotiate.
Master Contract Review and Negotiation for Software Agreements Research & Tools
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read our concise Executive Brief to find out how to redline and negotiate your software agreement, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.
1. Gather requirements
Build and manage your stakeholder team, then document your business use case.
2. Redline contract
Redline your proposed software contract.
3. Negotiate contract
Create a thorough negotiation plan.
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What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Get the help you need in this 3-phase advisory process. You'll receive 6 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation 1: Gather requirements
- Call 1: Define business use case and build stakeholder team
- Call 2: Evaluate initial proposal
Guided Implementation 2: Redline contract
- Call 1: Review terms and conditions
- Call 2: Validate requirements and incorporate into redlined contract
Guided Implementation 3: Negotiate contract
- Call 1: Develop a negotiation strategy
- Call 2: Review final proposal
Authors
Scott Bickley
Laura Trabucco
Contributors
- Christiaan Murphy, Global Software Category Manager at CGI
- Jeffery I. Gordon, SVP, author of Software Licensing Handbook & Mortgage Lending Vendor Operations Manager at BT&T
- David W. Tollen, Attorney at Law & Founder at Sycamore Legal, P.C.
Related Content: Vendor Management
Search Code: 81689
Last Revised: September 16, 2016
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