Taming SaaS Sprawl:  Bringing IT, Procurement, and Finance Into One Conversation  - presented by Unimarket

Where: Webinar/Virtual

When: Tuesday, November 10, 2026
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST

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Workshop Organizers:  Jenny Rowan of Unimarket

Registration Fee:
NERCOMP Member: Free
Non-Member: Free

Event Overview:
When purchasing is spread across departments, campus IT teams often learn late what's been bought, what's renewing, and what's slipped past security review. How do you get real visibility into software spend, renewals, and vendor risk without slowing down the people who need tools to do their jobs?

Join Bill Guerrero, VP of Information Technology at Sacred Heart University, as he shares what changed once purchasing and IT governance began sharing a single workflow. Meaghan Mullighan, Director of Channels & Strategic Growth, then walks through the process side: how to build a repeatable approach to intake, review, and renewal that works across a decentralized campus.

You'll leave with practical ideas for bringing shadow IT into the light, tightening vendor risk reviews, and getting IT and procurement working from the same playbook.

Learning Objectives:
 - Identify where software spend, renewals, and vendor risk go unseen when purchasing is decentralized across departments, and understand how that visibility gap creates security, compliance, and cost exposure.
 - Explore how bringing IT, procurement, and finance into a shared workflow can embed security and vendor risk reviews at the point of purchase instead of after the fact.
 - Leave with practical steps for building cross-functional ownership of software purchasing on your campus, including how to get buy-in from departments and where to start

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