Technology
Software Buyers Discover They Own Too Many Tools
A decade of frictionless departmental purchasing produced portfolios nobody inventoried. The consolidation now underway is being run by procurement, not engineering.
Procurement
AI
Corporate Buyers Push for Standard Terms in AI Model Contracts
Procurement departments, tired of negotiating novel terms for every AI vendor, are converging on shared contract language for data handling, evaluation and exit.
AI
Model Deprecation Becomes an Enterprise Risk
Companies built production systems on models that vendors retire on their own schedule. The resulting migrations are unplanned, unbudgeted and increasingly frequent.