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Jaswant Kalay
VP Analyst, KI Leader
Jas Kalay is a Senior Director Analyst in Gartner's IT Procurement, Asset and Vendor Management team, focusing on supporting clients in maturing their IT procurement, asset and vendor management disciplines. Mr. Kalay focuses on conducting research on IT procurement, IT asset management and SAM tooling best practices, as well as software and SaaS negotiation tactics.
Mr. Kalay's coverage includes software license commercial terms & conditions contract review (any vendor that is not a specified vendor), SaaS license commercial terms & conditions contract review (any vendor that is not a specified vendor), software license maintenance renewal optimization, IT procurement negotiations, software RFI, RFQ and RFP Development and Review, IT procurement organization and operations, IT procurement practices, processes and metrics, IT procurement transformation, IT procurement strategy, IT procurement governance, IT procurement policies, SAM Strategy, SAM tooling and SAM Policy and Processes.
Previous experience
Prior to joining Gartner Mr. Kalay worked for large multinational organizations, gaining extensive experience in IT sourcing and procurement, software asset management and IT asset management, where he led the creation of IT procurement and software asset management programs.
Professional background
Informa , Procurement and Software Asset Manager, 2 years
Reckitt Benckiser , Global Procurement and Software Asset Manager , 2 years
Trainline, Senior Procurement Manager , 2 years
Areas of coverage
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Sourcing, Procurement and Vendor Management Leaders
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IT Contracts Negotiations
Education
BA (Hons) Business and Information Systems, Nottingham Trent University
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Transforming IT procurement to support business innovation
Evaluating and negotiating software contracts
IT Procurement, IT Asset Management and Software Asset Management strategy and policy
Maturing Software Asset Management disciplines within organizations
IT Procurement spend analysis and IT category management