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How IT Vendors Restrict Their Clients’ Freedom of Choice

How IT Vendors Restrict Their Clients’ Freedom of Choice

The freedom to choose your vendor relationships, solutions and services is critical to ensuring that you receive valuable services at a fair market price.

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IT Vendor Relationships Might Be Slowing Your Company's Growth

IT Vendor Relationships Might Be Slowing Your Company's Growth

Are IT vendors limiting your potential? As plan out your company’s growth goals for the years ahead, your IT vendor relationship could become the single-biggest obstacle to achieving your desired results.

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Why It's Time to Switch to a Business-Led IT Model

Why It's Time to Switch to a Business-Led IT Model

Who's in charge of your IT strategy? If your business relies on legacy IT infrastructure to support its operations, it’s likely that your vendor is actually responsible for many of the decisions (and non-decisions) that your business has been forced to make about its IT infrastructure.

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IBM MQ End of Support Dates in 2021: What You Need to Know
IBM® Cognos End of Support Dates: What You Need to Know
Enterprise Software Negotiations: How to Maximize Your Leverage During Renewals
3 Tips on Using Software Renewal Negotiations to Plan Your Cloud Migration
IT Software Procurement: How to Lower Costs When Vendors Up Their Rates
Balancing Long-Term Value and Cost in Software Asset Management
How Evergreen IT Can Break the Cycle of Endless Software Updates
Affording Evergreen IT: The Benefits of Third-Party Service Management
A Peek Behind the Curtain at an IBM Software Contract

A Peek Behind the Curtain at an IBM Software Contract

IBM® software contracts lock businesses into long-term deals, but do they always have what's best in mind for the client?

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