{"id":103,"date":"2012-08-13T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T11:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2012-08-29T16:52:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:52:29","slug":"require-contract-benchmark-for-lower-license-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Require contract benchmark for lower license cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most software vendors have a confidentiality clause in their boilerplate agreements that do not allow the buyers to share the commercial terms of the agreement. This practice reduces the ability to benchmark a contract to the few in your community that might verbally share their recent deals, or to calling on an expensive professional service that might not provide you with the details you are searching.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there is an out to this dilemma: Internet-based self-service benchmarks for software procurement, as provided by <a title=\"Light in the License Jungle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.license12.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">License12<\/a> since early summer 2012:<\/p>\n<p>Buyers or software asset managers are making use of a contract repository that can serve as a common base for everyone in the organization, to have all transactions at hand and to plot it to more than 2500 procurement datapoints. The benchmarks can be adjusted with respect to size, industry and region, to create a market insight on transaction or even on product levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most software vendors have a confidentiality clause in their boilerplate agreements that do not allow the buyers to share the commercial terms of the agreement. This practice reduces the ability to benchmark a contract to the few in your community that might verbally share their recent deals, or to calling on an expensive professional service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}