Gartner Expert

Hannah Decker

Director Analyst, KI Leader

Hannah Decker is a Director Analyst in the IT Sourcing, Procurement and Vendor Management practice. Ms. Decker provides expert guidance to clients in the areas of licensing, pricing and contract negotiation strategies for SaaS and iPaaS contracts with a particular focus on Salesforce and MuleSoft. She helps clients achieve best-in-class, sustainable and flexible deals by offering best practice advice on critical terms and conditions to negotiate. She advises organizations on how to combat significant vendor price increases. She helps clients understand how to engage with and leverage hyperscaler Marketplaces from AWS, Google and Microsoft.

Recently, her research and advisory focus has been on how to negotiate consumption-, token- and credit-based pricing models for generative AI (genAI) and other capabilities and navigating the complexities of genAI pricing and contract terms.

Previous experience

Previously, Ms. Decker served as an IT Procurement Manager for the State of Florida where she was responsible for procuring hardware, software and staff augmentation services.

Professional background

Dulwich College Seoul, Procurement Manager, 4 years

State of Florida, Procurement Analyst, 2 years

Areas of coverage
  • IT Contracts Negotiations

  • IT Vendor Portfolio Management

  • IT Sourcing, Procurement and Vendor Management Operating Model

Education

MBA, Florida State University. USA.

M.A., Diplomatic Studies, University of Leicester, U.K.

B.A.(Hons), Applied Social Science, University of York, U.K.

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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Negotiation strategies, terms and conditions and pricing for Salesforce SaaS contracts

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Negotiation strategies, terms and conditions and pricing for Mulesoft contracts

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Negotiation strategies, terms and conditions for SaaS contracts

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Strategies around price increase mitigation (due to inflation, renewal increases) in SaaS contracts

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Negotiating consumption-, credit- or token-based pricing models with SaaS vendors (for genAI or other capabilities)