Gartner Expert

Dolores Ianni

VP, Advisory

Dolores Ianni is a VP Advisor in Gartner's Sourcing Procurement and Vendor Management group. For more than fifteen years, she has been focusing on Microsoft software negotiations helping clients to optimize costs and reduce risk. She also covers best practices in negotiating large hyper-scale contracts with Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform. This includes a detailed comparison across these private pricing agreements, their Marketplaces and how to negotiate to achieve for the best contract pricing and terms.

Ms. Ianni has more than 43 years within the IT industry. In her previous role at Gartner, Ms. Ianni was a Senior Research Content Specialist within the Infrastructure and Operations team, where she provided market analysis on hardware contracts, facilitated analyst inquiry and developed strategic relationships with our sourcing clients to ensure they received maximum value from our contract review services.

Previous experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Ianni was marketing IBM mainframes and storage upgrades at Phoenix Computer Associates for eight years. Before that, she served as a product manager for Kierulff/Arrow Electronics.

Professional background

Phoenix Computer Associates, Marketing Manager, 8 years

Kierulff/Arrow Electronics, Product Manager, 2 years

Areas of coverage
  • IT Contracts Negotiations

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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Negotiating large Microsoft Enterprise Agreements

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Negotiating substantial Microsoft Azure contracts

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Negotiating Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform licensing

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Negotiating substantial AWS cloud contracts

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Negotiating Google Cloud Platform agreements