Growing Need for IT Expenditure Control Fuels Demand for New Technology Procurement Best Practices
ATLANTA – September 6, 2005 – NPI, a leader in technology
value expertise, announced today that the company has passed the 100 customer mark.
Organizations such as Forbes, Marriott, Hitachi, Lands’ End, Atlas Van Lines, Rock-Tenn,
La Quinta Inn’s, Under Armour, Harcourt Education, Mercy Healthcare and more have driven millions
of dollars out of their IT spending with NPI. NPI offers a comprehensive set of tools and methodologies
for analyzing current IT investments and expertise to derive additional value from these investments,
while simultaneously cutting unnecessary costs. With NPI, CIOs gain visibility into current operating
expenditures, are ensured of paying low fair market prices and demonstrate sound financial governance.
"Many believe that competitively bidding their purchases ensures they always pay fair market pricing,” said Todd Wolff, a Managing Partner at NPI. “In reality, what drives the final price of a technology expenditure is complex and often misunderstood. NPI’s knowledge base and unique approach provides comparisons to identify potential cost savings and value gaps between current and proposed expenditures.”
NPI leads this emerging best practice and has been recognized with four Gartner Best Solution
awards, as well as the millions of dollars in savings delivered to clients.
“CIOs are under intense pressure to deliver more with less,” said Wolff. “The costs
savings organizations can realize with NPI delivers a significant and compelling competitive
advantage that cannot be overlooked.”
NPI is a privately-held company that provides assistance for its customers in implementing rigorous processes for making sound spend management decisions. Using a combination of market experts and proprietary methodologies, NPI provides assessments of a variety of traditionally difficult spend management categories – information technology, telecommunications and transportation – to ensure that expenditures and operating expenses are in-line with current market conditions. NPI leads this emerging best practice, offering procurement expertise, a fair market value database and experience from both sides of the table with quality and integrity. For more information, please visit www.npifinancial.com.
