September 2021
International 2022 Budget Planning: Like a Bad Hangover, Did You Wake Up and Wonder Where Your Money Was Spent?
Negotiating Cloud Infrastructure Agreements
Microsoft Price Increases and Term Changes
International 2022 Budget Planning: Like a Bad Hangover, Did You Wake Up and Wonder Where Your Money Was Spent?
Negotiating Cloud Infrastructure Agreements
Microsoft Price Increases and Term Changes
Cloud Lock-In: A Risk to be Avoided
Is 'Overspend' Culture Impeding Your Transformation Efforts?
12 for '21 Cloud Optimization Tips: Number Eight: Elastic IPs
Oracle's Latest Rebate/Credit Scheme That Will Ultimately Cost More
HCM/HRMS: UKG - Kronos and Ultimate Software Merger One Year Later - What You Should Know
Cyber Security: Punching Above Your Weight with MSP/MSSPs
Bloomberg: Top 5 Reasons Why the Bloomberg Empire Will Fall
Hidden Costs in Your IT Agreements: Beware the "I" Word
Our Top Cyber Security Firms for 2021
12 for '21 Cloud Savings Tips: #6 and #7
Financial Services Series: How Lemonade is Disrupting the Insurance Industry
Microsoft as Your Security Solutions Provider...Do You Really Want That?
eBook Guide to Savings Big with Cloud Cost Optimization
Oracle: A Culture of Fear at Oracle Infrastructure Unit?
12 for '21 Cloud Savings Tips
12 for '21 Cloud Tips #3: Demand Management
Top 4 Technology Review Platforms (Out of 100!)
Migrating Oracle Workloads to AWS or Oracle Cloud: Size Matters
Veeva Systems: Key Advice Before Your Next Deal is Signed
Top HCM HRMS Suppliers of 2021 - A Review
Can the Bloomberg Ghouls be Stopped?
Top 10 Suppliers to Watch for 2021
TMS (Treasury Management Systems) Landscape and Options
Cloud Optimization Series: 12 for '21
AWS Update and 2021 Market Forecast
IBM's Diminishing Role in the Enterprise
Time to Extract Value from VMware
Will SAP's Rise Be Your Downfall?
Oracle Audits the World
Microsoft: Opportunity in Chaos
12 for 21 Cloud Optimization Series: Shut it Off
Industry Megatrends 2021 eBook
SolarWinds Hack and What You Need to Know
Four Ways to Find Savings and Reduce Opex
AWS Outages are a Warning to Plan Ahead
Salesforce 2020: Updated eBook, 'An Inside Look at Salesforce
Free Pricing Benchmark Tools for Salesforce, VMWare, and AWS
Microsoft Security and Compliance Driving Consolidation (and cost)
Oracle Sales Silos and How They Can Work Against You
Cloud Resource Center
Cloud Benefits: Diminished or Eliminated Without Governance
Cloud Cost Optimization: Moving Mountains with Shovels
Microsoft Alert: SLAs and Outages
NET(net) Case Studies
Five Ways Your Cloud Gets Wasted
NET(net) Announces New Board of Advisors Appointment
Multicloud: A Definitive Guide
SAP: Time to go Back to School on Licensing Changes
Ways to Terminate Your IT Services Agreement
Beware Cloud Vendor Pricing Calculators
SAP Resources
Cisco in Focus: Time for Bold Action
Financial Services: Biggest Risk - Reputation Loss
Cisco Resources
Cloud Cost and Related Myths That Can Cost Millions
DaaS - Considering Desktop as a Service?
Beware Supplier Offers During Pandemic
Java: Like Being Free, But Oracle Instead
Look That Gift Horse in the Mouth
HCM Customers: Three Warning Signs to Look Out For from Your Provider
Rundown of COVID-19 Content
Free Software Offers for Business During Pandemic
Managing IT Spend in a Pandemic
4 Tips to Save with Microsoft
IBM's Ginny Rometty: Sinking Ship
SOC (Security Operations Center) Outsourcing
NET(net)'s Savings Cloud
Countdown of Oracle's Most Egregious Terms and Conditions: Part I - Audit Clause
Kill the AWS Zombies!
Oracle 2020 Series: Audit Outlook
C-Suite on the Move
Countdown of Oracle's Most Egregious Terms and Conditions: Part II - Auto Install
Financial Services: If You Read it in the Newspaper, It's Too Late
Multicloud Series Part III: Application Portability
C-Suite on the Move
Oracle's 12 Most Egregious Terms and Conditions Part 3
MultiCloud Series Part II: Pricing and Product Transparency
Supplier Profits and Fiscal Year End Tactics They Use Against You
Oracle's 12 Most Egregious Terms and Conditions #3
Multicloud Strategy Series: Part I
Funding Innovation by Unlocking Value from Current Spend
Oracle's 12 Most Egregious Terms and Conditions #5
Cisco Enterprise Agreements: Where's the Beef
Oracle Directors Give Go Ahead for Shareholder Lawsuit
Oracle's Most Egregious Terms and Conditions #6
Thrive Ultimatum Part II - Disruptive Technologies
How Deutsche Bank Plans to Cut Spending and Modernize Infrastructure
Supplier Market Update: Huawei
Oracle's Most Egregious Terms and Conditions: #7
SAP Confusing Licensing re: HANA
Executive Announcement for LATAM
Oracle Series: 12 Most Egregious Terms, #9
Microsoft Fiscal Year End
Oracle Series: 12 Most Egregious Terms, Number 11 and 12
Financial Services: A Journey to World Class IT Outsourcing
VMware Benchmark Tool
Blockchain Supplier Invoicing
Software License Dis-Entanglement in M&As
HCM Software: Breaking Down the Top 5
Software Audits: Top 10 Audit Crazy Suppliers 2019
Oracle Getting Sued Again
WIN(win) Updates and Enhancements
Digital Transformation for Financial Services: 'Winter is Coming'.
Oracle: So, you think you know SIA? Think again.
Forbes: Top 10 Strategic CIO Priorities for 2019
Thrive Ultimatum 2019: Thrive Ultimatum - The Digital You Must Do
NET(net) Year End Resource Guide:
Original 2018 Articles and Whitepapers
Video Series and Benchmarks
SAP at Year End: Pitfalls and Opportunities
Salesforce: Stronger (and more expensive) than ever.
Steven Zolman: The Thrive Ultimatum - The Digital You Must Do
Thrive Ultimatum Series Part I: The Digital You Must Do
NET(net) Client PRA Health Recognized by AHL Magazine
SAP Indirect Access Charge Legality Questioned in Germany
5 Q4 Sales Strategies Suppliers Use Against You
Defending Yourself from an Oracle Audit
Salesforce Dreamforce 2018
Microsoft Pricing Alert: Changes that take effect Oct 1, 2018
HCM 'Bewares': What to watch out for in sourcing HCM
ICYMI: NET(net) Named by CIOReview a Top Banking Tech Provider
CIOReview Names NET(net) 2018 Most Promising Service Provider
Microsoft Pricing Updates
AWS Escalating Consumption Costs
5 Ways You Lose Technology Deals
Negotiating Cloud Agreements
How CIOs Can Last Longer Than 4.3 Years
Financial Services: Enemies at the Gate
Whitepaper: Top 10 Ways to Defend Yourself from a Technology Supplier Audit
Hiring a CIO - What Companies Are Really Looking For
GDPR Opportunities
Oracle Fiscal Year End - What to do now?
Cloud Revenue Leaders
SAP Maintenance and Support for the Zombie Hordes
Oracle Audits Will Get Worse in 2018
CFO Take on How to Make the CIO/CFO Relationship Work
Optimizing IT Spend in Banks to Improve Efficiency and Fund Innovation
Can Oracle Compete in the Cloud Wars?
Video Series: Keeping Value in Your IT Investments
Financial Services Nightmare: The Mainframe That Ate My P&L
As Predicted on 2017: NET(net) and the Impact of Tax Reform on Offshore Banks
Salesforce 2018: Benchmark Tool
Microsoft: 4 Things You Need to Know
Lenta Partners with NET(net)
NET(net) Acquires Orange Procurement Consulting
New NET(net) Website Launch
Banking Crisis: Part II Tax Reformation and Offshore Banks
Performance Benchmark Reports
Greatest Threats to the Banking Industry: Part I
IT Security Spend: Not Secure
Oracle's Online Terms and Conditions
Corporate Offshore Cash: Lessons from Microsoft
SAP Resources
Eurozone Banking Chief - Trouble Ahead?
NET(net) 15 YEar Anniversary - Iceland
Infrastructure Spend - Significant Savings Replacing MPLS
Fortune: IBM - More Revenue Decline
ITAM SAP Group: Spurious Indirect Claims
Microsoft: Resources
Fortune: Cyber Attack Traced to Software
SAP Suing More Clients
Microsoft: Yes, you are paying too much
Fortune: Microsoft Ransomware – A Strategy?
An Open Letter from CEO, Kellsey Le
SAP and Oracle License Transfers: How can you beat free?
Salesforce Resources: Benchmark, Whitepaper, Articles and more..
The Salesforce Benchmark: Don’t Procrastinate – Know What You Should Be Paying
In the News: 2016 Election’s Tech Impact
Research: SAP Fiscal Year End, Video: FMI – Federated Market Intelligence That Drives Benchmarking
The Art of Successful Supplier Negotiations Part II
In the News: Technology Levels the Vendor Playing Field
Research: Salesforce Whitepaper Updated for 2016, Oracle Case Study
“Little Big Blue”, an IBM Article by Manager Magazin’ Quoting Steven Zolman, from NET(net)
Microsoft: What’s Free Today is Fee Tomorrow
Microsoft Product Knowledge Quiz
The Art of Successful Supplier Negotiations Part 1
In the News: How Will Potential Purchase of Twitter by Disney, Salesforce or Google Change It?
Video Series: Getting Value in IT
An Open Letter to CFOs: The First Step is Admitting You Have a Problem
In the News: Workday’s Earnings, Worry for SAP and Oracle
Video Series: The Importance of IT Market Knowledge
Oracle Cloud: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
Microsoft Market Alert: Changes to Licensing Terms
In the News: Oracle to Buy Netsuite for $9.3B
Video Series: Importance of Federated Market Intelligence
Top Questions to Ask Before You Take the Slow Road to SAP Hana
“Am I Paying Too Much?” Find Our on Oracle and SAP
5 Ways CIOs and IT Leaders Can Do More With Less
Video Series: The Technology Cartel, and Why You Overpay by 30-40%
Learn how you can Benchmark Oracle using NET(net)’s newly launched, FMI on Demand™
Premium Content: Oracle Indentured Servitude
Infrastructure’s New World Order
In The News: Can Oracle Customers Play Hardball and Win?
Top 5 Suppliers to Take Action With Now for Significant Value and Savings!
Infrastructure: The Market is Disrupting.. Know Your Opportunities and Risks
Market Alert: Salesforce.com ‘Lightening’ Pricing Change – Don’t Get Zapped!
In The News: CIO Reflects on “Trauma” of Oracle Re-licensing Deal
Oracle Audit Money Tree – Are You at Risk?
WIN(win) Version 3.0 Released
Whitepaper: Top 10 Ways to Defend Yourself from an Oracle Audit
Microsoft Case Study
Preparing for License Reviews
Microsoft SAM Reviews: Incmpentance or Deliberate Business Strategy?
Top 7 Ways You are Overpaying Microsoft
What does NET(net) do, and how do we do it?
Spotlight on the Subject Matter Expert: Michael Welsh
Whitepaper: Facing an Oracle Audit?
The State of CRM 2015
Benchmarking Your Salesforce Agreement
IBM CEO: Ginny Rometty, Ouster Imminent
Spotlight on the Subject Matter Expert: Scott Braden
Whitepaper: An Inside Look at Salesforce?
Technology Value at Year-End
Supplier Focus: SAP
Thought Leadership: Dell EMC Merger
NET(net) Announcements
Spotlight on the Subject Matter Expert
WIN(win) Supplier Portal
Top 10 Audit Crazy Suppliers
Audit Defense Armor
WIN(win) Supplier Portal
Management Announcements
Tame the Microsoft Gorilla, One Google at a Time
Don’t Overpay Microsoft
WIN(win) Platform Updates!
NET(net) Events and Speaking Engagements
7 Ways to Walk the Walk With Disruptive Technology
Salesforce Market Survey
Dexter Siglin, VP of Marketing and Business Development
NET(net)’s New Facebook Page
What’s Your Microsoft Licensing IQ
Punch Above Your Weight and Modernize Your Supply Chain
Our Top 5 BI Trends for 2015 – and Why You Should Care
Top 5 Ways Oracle Makes you see Red
Defend Yourself from an Oracle Audit
Build Sustainable Value with Microsoft
Introducing WIN(win) 2.0