May 28th, 2025
9AM ET · 2PM GMT
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Breaking free: How to avoid vendor lock-in

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Ever wanted to switch SaaS vendors, but found it too challenging, expensive, or simply impractical?

Your choices are simple - and unenviable. Either stick with the unsuitable or sub-standard vendor, or face spiraling costs and condemn the organization to continuous firefighting as it ‘makes do’ - probably jeopardising growth ambitions in the process.

This is Vendor Lock-In - and it’s more avoidable than you realize.

In this webinar, James Meads, host of The Procurement Software podcast, and Nick Riley, Director of Procurement at Vertice, will host a panel of procurement leaders who have seen, experienced and thoroughly resented vendor lock-in, and what they do now to avoid it. And why combatting Vendor Lock-In is more than a cost reduction exercise, but is in fact one of the clearest measures of a procurement team’s strategic impact and influence.

What you will learn:

● What is Vendor Lock-In, and why it is a bigger problem now than it ever has been before.

● The procurement oversights that create Vendor-Lock in.

● How the panel of procurement leaders have previously fallen victim to Vendor Lock-In, the impact it had, and what they have learned to avoid it in the future.

● What mastering Vendor Lock-In shows about procurement’s role in the business at a strategic level.

Panel

Attendees

Speakers

James Meads
James Meads
Host of The Procurement Software Podcast
Nick Riley
Nick Riley
Director of Procurement, Vertice
Katie Hodgkiss
Katie Hodgkiss
Global Head of Cloud & Infrastructure Procurement, HSBC
Richard Struthers
Richard Struthers
Procurement Interim @ Rosemae Procurement, CIPS Committee Member
May 28th, 2025
9AM ET · 2PM GMT
Webinar

Breaking free: How to avoid vendor lock-in

Join our webinar to finally break free of vendor lock-in
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Event Details

Ever wanted to switch SaaS vendors, but found it too challenging, expensive, or simply impractical?

Your choices are simple - and unenviable. Either stick with the unsuitable or sub-standard vendor, or face spiraling costs and condemn the organization to continuous firefighting as it ‘makes do’ - probably jeopardising growth ambitions in the process.

This is Vendor Lock-In - and it’s more avoidable than you realize.

In this webinar, James Meads, host of The Procurement Software podcast, and Nick Riley, Director of Procurement at Vertice, will host a panel of procurement leaders who have seen, experienced and thoroughly resented vendor lock-in, and what they do now to avoid it. And why combatting Vendor Lock-In is more than a cost reduction exercise, but is in fact one of the clearest measures of a procurement team’s strategic impact and influence.

What you will learn:

● What is Vendor Lock-In, and why it is a bigger problem now than it ever has been before.

● The procurement oversights that create Vendor-Lock in.

● How the panel of procurement leaders have previously fallen victim to Vendor Lock-In, the impact it had, and what they have learned to avoid it in the future.

● What mastering Vendor Lock-In shows about procurement’s role in the business at a strategic level.

Attendees

Speakers

James Meads
James Meads
Host of The Procurement Software Podcast
Nick Riley
Nick Riley
Director of Procurement, Vertice
Katie Hodgkiss
Global Head of Cloud & Infrastructure Procurement, HSBC
Global Head of Cloud & Infrastructure Procurement, HSBC
Richard Struthers
Richard Struthers
Procurement Interim @ Rosemae Procurement, CIPS Committee Member
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