Multi‑vendor AI strategies promised a new era of vendor competition and lower prices for enterprise software — but the early evidence shows the opposite: rising software bills, unpredictable budgets, and a shifting cost base that rewards cloud infrastructure owners more than application vendors...
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The UK government’s five‑year Strategic Partnership Arrangement 2024 (SPA24) with Microsoft has crystallised into one of the most consequential technology procurement decisions of the decade: roughly £1.9 billion a year in public‑sector software and services, approaching £9 billion across the...
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Microsoft is standardizing how it prices online services purchased through its volume licensing programs, expanding a single, consistent price across Price Levels A–D to all Online Services sold under Enterprise Agreement (EA) and Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA), with the change...
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