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# Teem Announces Strategic Partnership with NPI to Provide Application Rationalization-Powered Price Benchmarking Reports
- URL: https://blog.teem.finance/teem-announces-strategic-partnership-with-npi-to-provide-application-rationalization-powered-price-benchmarking-reports/
- Published: 2025-09-23T14:44:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-23T14:44:58.000Z
- Author: Ben Mappen

[Teem](https://www.teem.finance/?ref=blog.teem.finance), the leader in AI-native application rationalization, today announced a strategic partnership with [NPI](https://www.npifinancial.com/?ref=blog.teem.finance), 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**.