How are you dealing with software price increases? Are you renegotiating contracts, exploring new vendors, or implementing alternative cost-saving measures?

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Chief Technology Officer in Softwarea year ago

We are renegotiating all our contracts and in some cases finding new vendors for our software needs. We have cut down on all products which were being explored for Proof Of Concepts.
With uncertain market conditions, startups are facing the heat to cut down on projects and software costs.

CTO & Digital Transformation Leader in Travel and Hospitalitya year ago

yes, there are a lot of negotiations happenings especially on the cloud costs.

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CTO in Transportationa year ago

We always negotiate for yearly contracts, for month to month it depends on the software. In general we didn't see large price increases yet.

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