How do I build consensus within my organization? Am I using the right vendors? What does the right deal look like? How can I contract for flexibility? How can I reduce costs and ensure return on my sourcing and procurement investments? With insight from Gartner, you'll be able to answer the questions critical to the success of your IT sourcing and procurement initiatives.

The Gartner IT Sourcing and Procurement Directors Membership Program includes all the benefits of a Gartner Research advisor seat including unlimited access to Gartner analysts. In addition, you have exclusive access to a Web portal with research focused on your key technical and operational issues. You will be able to identify emerging trends, best practices and new technologies.

Exclusive monthly telephone meetings on pressing, timely issues and trends. Network with other clients anonymously and hear about issues others are facing. Ask your most pressing questions. Get the answers you need.

Each month, we send you an e-newsletter that highlights the best Gartner thought leadership, gathered and summarized specifically for IT Sourcing and Procurement Directors. Get the perspective you need to devise winning strategies.

Customized alert profiles notify you immediately that relevant research is newly available.

Your membership includes complimentary admission to a Gartner theme event, providing you with an opportunity to network among your peers, learn from shared experiences and interact with the analysts both one-on-one and in group sessions.

Your membership includes your choice of one of the following five options for collaboration with Gartner analysts and consultants. Get the condensed and tactical advice you need, when you need it.

The Gartner Sourcing Readiness Workshop is a rapid, high-level review that determines whether your sourcing approach is complete, efficient and designed to develop the best deals.

The Gartner Sourcing Relationship Workshop assesses the co-management processes of your sourcing deal and develops an action plan for improving the relationship.

The Gartner Technology Acquisition Workshop equips you with an understanding of the dynamics of technology acquisition and prepares you to do so appropriately and successfully.

The Gartner IT Software or Hardware Procurement: Preparation and Negotiations Workshop provides an excellent opportunity for you to identify and seize opportunities that exist when negotiating acquisitions.

The Gartner Services Market Scan Workshop helps you assess IT services and optimize their evaluation and selection in the outsourcing market.

Gartner Decision Tools deliver software applications, services and methodologies that perform cost-of-ownership analysis and support vendor-selection projects. By understanding the total cost of ownership, organizations are able to reduce costs dramatically while improving operational efficiency. By using a structured, objective vendor-selection methodology, organizations overcome the challenges involved in complex technology decisions and make better, faster, more cost-effective vendor selections. Choose one option:

Select two of the following assessments:

• Contract Financial Assessment
  The Contract Financial Assessment provides a review of the key financial elements of a sourcing contract between the ESP and the service recipient. The assessment reviews the key areas of the contract that are of high impact due to the risk assignment, dollars spent and the necessary elements that pertain to ongoing management and measurement.
• Responsibility Assessment
  The Responsibility Assessment involves input from the service recipient and ESP. It requires both parties to review which entity is responsible for the various deliverables in the IT environment. The accompanying responsibility matrix provides a tool to define the current contracted and informally accepted areas of responsibility.
• Service-Level Assessment
  The Service-Level Assessment provides up to 10 service levels with the tools to address their overall structure, including exceptions, penalty and incentive, measurement, reporting process and reasonability elements.

• TCOŽ Manager
  Software allows you to analyze actual cost, personnel, workload and service-level data to derive actionable, real-world comparisons. This includes a sophisticated best-practices predictive modeling capability that delivers calculations of your actual TCO and normalized unit costs as well as comparisons to peers in the Gartner database.
• Vendor Selection
  Utilize software designed to comprehensively evaluate integrated software suites that encompass functionality, field service and support; project management, vendor services and support while providing guidance on executing scripted demonstrations and/or bid reviews.