Hi, I’m Joe, and I’m the IT procurement manager at a global advertising firm. When the IT team or end users want new hardware, software, or services from external vendors, they come to me. I acquire the solutions they need, and work with the various providers we procure those systems from. There was a time when doing my job was quite difficult. I had to use spreadsheets, Word documents, even post-it notes scattered across my [...]

According to Goldman Sachs, US companies spend more than $25 billion each year managing their business contracts.  And while all contracts are important, many experts will argue that IT contracts are, by far, the most critical, and must be tracked and administered in the most efficient and effective manner possible. IT contracts come in many forms.  There are software licenses, hardware leases, subscriptions to online services such as salesforce.com or SAManage, maintenance and service agreements, [...]