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What You Need to Know About IT Contract Renewals and the Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Nov 17, 2022
If your IT contract renewals are tied to the Consumer Price Index, you could see significant price hikes....
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IBM Monthly License Charges Increasing More than Usual

Nov 16, 2022
Across the enterprise IT ecosystem, more and more vendors are passing on some of the burden of high...
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Is an Enterprise License Agreement Worth It?

Sep 30, 2022
Sales teams for enterprise IT vendors have always had to be creative in order to make quotas. Meanwhile,...
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Visiting Microsoft’s Executive Briefing Center? Read This First.

Sep 16, 2022
Large Microsoft enterprise customers are often invited to the Executive Briefing Center, and it is a visit well...
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Microsoft Limits Azure Instances – What Should You Do?

Aug 5, 2022
As supply chain issues persist across the IT world, shortages have started hitting a new area: cloud services....
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How Will Broadcom’s Acquisition of VMware Affect VMware Customers?

Jun 14, 2022
For the most part, NPI’s clients have good relationships with their IT vendors. Sure, some vendors are less...
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Salesforce Vendor Management: When to Start Working on Your Salesforce Renewal

Jun 6, 2022
NPI is often asked by clients, “How much time before the end date of our current Salesforce contract...
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Oracle Universal Credits Licensing and Pricing Basics for OCI

Jun 1, 2022
If you’re a customer of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, you’ve likely heard of Oracle’s Universal Credits subscription model....
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Why Does the Salesforce Renewal Negotiation Have to Be So Hard?

May 17, 2022
Here’s a comment we heard recently from a NPI client executive at a Fortune 500 Health and Life...
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Changes to LinkedIn Sales Navigator Pricing and Renewals

Mar 28, 2022
Whether you’re pondering a new purchase or have a renewal on the horizon, there are changes to LinkedIn...
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Microsoft Viva Insights – Has Microsoft Found the Balance Between Productivity and Privacy?

Mar 23, 2022
Late last year, Microsoft “rebranded” its Workplace Analytics product. The new product name is Microsoft Viva Insights and...
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Oracle’s Cerner Acquisition – What Does It Mean for Cerner Customers?

Mar 15, 2022
Late last December, as most folks settled into the holidays and a slow business news cycle, Oracle spiced...