Use These Critical IBM Resources to Optimize Software Negotiations and Mitigate Risk

Published: 08 July 2015

ID: G00274920

Analyst(s): Rob Schafer, Christopher Dixon, Jo Ann Rosenberger

Summary

While IBM provides several resources to procurement professionals to help optimize software deals, manage compliance, mitigate software audit risk and create competitive negotiation leverage, they're not always easy to find. This research shares and explains several critical IBM software resources.

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