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Microsoft’s Copilot Has a New Cost Driver. Here’s Why It Matters.

Aug 6, 2026
For years, buying Microsoft Copilot was relatively easy to understand. You bought licenses, assigned them to users, and...
Webinars

Welcome to the Era of Shadow AI. What Can Procurement Do About It?

AI is spreading across the enterprise faster than most organizations realize. Join us as we examine how AI...
Blog

Why The Best AI Discount Right Now Isn’t on a Price Sheet

Jul 30, 2026
The most useful AI pricing signal of 2026 isn’t in anyone’s rate card. It’s in frontier vendor competition....
Bulletin

The New Economics of Microsoft Copilot: Managing Seats and Consumption

Microsoft’s workplace AI pricing has officially split in two. Microsoft 365 Copilot remains a fixed per-user subscription, while...
Blog

Breaking the Single-Model Lock-In: What Microsoft Adding Claude to Copilot Teaches Us

Jul 22, 2026
Microsoft now runs three separate AI model providers inside its own flagship product: OpenAI, Anthropic, and its own...
Who Owns AI Costs
Webinars

Who Owns AI Costs? Why Procurement Must Lead the AI FinOps Conversation

Webinars

The Inference Economics Reckoning: Why Enterprise AI Costs Keep Rising as Token Prices Fall

How AI Tokenization Works
Insights

How AI Tokenization Works: Models, Costs, and the Hidden Economics of Token Consumption

Jun 30, 2026
Understanding AI tokenization is the foundation of effective enterprise AI cost management. As part of NPI’s Mastering AI Economics:...
Governing AI Token Spend
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Governing AI Token Spend: A Five-Layer Defense Framework

Jun 30, 2026
AI spending is rapidly shifting from predictable licensing to consumption-based pricing, creating new cost and governance challenges for...
Webinars

Mastering AI Economics

NPI's Mastering AI Economics webinar series helps procurement leaders understand AI cost models, strengthen vendor negotiations, and build...
Art of Procurement
Webinars

Managing the New Spend Frontier: AI Tokens in Procurement

AI is creating an entirely new category of enterprise spend, and most procurement organizations are still learning how...
Blog

How Open Source AI Is Shifting Power Back to the Buyer

Jun 2, 2026
If you’re in IT procurement, pay attention: open source AI is more than a developer trend.  For many,...