Teem, the leader in AI-native application rationalization, today announced a strategic partnership with NPI, the leader in IT price benchmarking. Together, the companies will deliver a first-of-its-kind asset that combines application rationalization insights with Fair Market Value (FMV) pricing benchmarks, arming procurement and IT leaders with unmatched leverage in vendor negotiations.
Addressing Two Intertwined Challenges
Large enterprises consistently face two major pain points in technology management:
- Supplier sprawl – a proliferation of redundant or overlapping applications across the organization.
- Aggressive vendor negotiations – particularly during renewals or when organizations are locked into high-cost providers.
These challenges are tightly intertwined. Without rationalizing suppliers, enterprises have limited options in negotiations. Without pricing intelligence, they risk overpaying even when alternatives exist.
Bringing Together Two Industry Leaders
- Teem enables large enterprises to prevent supplier sprawl and rationalize their existing tech spend through AI-driven application rationalization. By analyzing enterprise supplier portfolios, Teem identifies redundancy, overlap, and opportunities for consolidation.
- NPI equips hundreds of enterprises with deep market intelligence on IT pricing, empowering procurement teams to negotiate from a position of strength. Its Fair Market Value (FMV) reports are widely recognized as the industry benchmark for pricing accuracy.
The Combined Offering
Through this partnership, Teem’s application rationalization reports will be embedded directly into NPI’s FMV reports. Customers will receive a unified deliverable that not only identifies fair pricing for a supplier contract but also highlights redundant or overlapping applications that weaken negotiation leverage.
The outcome: procurement and IT teams can enter vendor discussions with both market-validated pricing and portfolio rationalization insights—two levers that together drive stronger savings and more strategic supplier decisions.
Unlocking New Leverage for Enterprise Procurement
This partnership is designed for enterprise procurement and IT teams dealing with:
- Renewals with aggressive price increases.
- Vendor lock-in that limits optionality.
- The need to demonstrate cost avoidance through consolidation.
By integrating rationalization into price benchmarking, Teem and NPI are helping enterprises move beyond transactional negotiations to strategic, portfolio-level decision making.