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Negotiate SaaS Agreements That Are Built to Last
Leverage your unique position and find substantial cost savings.
- Internal stakeholders usually have different – and often conflicting – needs and expectations that require careful facilitation and management.
- SaaS solutions bring forth a unique form of “switching costs” that can make a decision to migrate solutions financially, technically, and politically painful.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Conservatively, it’s possible to save 5% of the overall IT budget through comprehensive software and SaaS contract review.
- Focus on the terms and conditions, not just the price.
- Learning to negotiate is crucial.
Impact and Result
- Take control of your SaaS contract negotiations from the beginning.
- Look at your contract holistically to find cost savings.
- Guide communication between vendors and your organization for the duration of contract negotiations.
- Redline the terms and conditions of your SaaS contract.
- Prioritize crucial terms and conditions to negotiate.
Negotiate SaaS Agreements That Are Built to Last Research & Tools
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read our concise Executive Brief to find out how to redline and negotiate a SaaS agreement, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the different ways we can support you in completing this project.
1. Gather requirements
Build and manage the stakeholder team, and then document the business use case.
2. Redline contract
Redline the proposed SaaS contract.
3. Negotiate contract
Create a thorough negotiation plan.
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What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Get the help you need in this 3-phase advisory process. You'll receive 6 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation 1: Gather requirements
- Call 1: Create negotiation team
- Call 2: Write communication plan
- Call 3: Document use case
Guided Implementation 2: Redline contract
- Call 1: Review and redline general terms and conditions
- Call 2: Review and redline SaaS-specific terms and conditions
Guided Implementation 3: Negotiate contract
- Call 1: Negotiate contract
Authors
Scott Bickley
Laura Trabucco
Contributors
- Christiaan Murphy, Global Software Category Manager at CGI
- Jeffery I. Gordon, SVP, author of Software Licensing Handbook & Mortgage Lending Vendor Operations Manager at BT&T
- David W. Tollen, author of The Tech Contracts Handbook, Attorney & Founder at Sycamore Legal, P.C.
Related Content: Vendor Management
Search Code: 80182
Last Revised: September 15, 2016
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