IT Procurement Course Complete

Explore layman-friendly explanations of information technology through home devices, hardware, software, and networks. Learn how processors, memory, storage, operating systems, applications, and internet connectivity enable data exchange.

Shows how a private network links three LAN sites (New York, London, Singapore) into a WAN, with VPN gateways securing intranet data over the Internet.

Explore how client-server architecture with SAP-like heavy applications scales across on-premise private cloud, data centers, and disaster recovery sites with virtualization and shared resources.

See how infrastructure as a service moves on-premise data centers to cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google, enabling public and virtual private cloud options.

Understand software as a service, a web-based subscription that delivers apps online with no local installs. Pay per user and rely on backend maintenance, contrasting with traditional on-premises software.

Discover how IT procurement professionals classify and buy hardware, software, network services, and professional services. Identify asset categories like workplace computers, collaboration apps, analytics, infrastructure, and security.

Learn hardware price components, including hardware cost, maintenance, delivery, installation, spare parts, and software licenses, illustrated by a Cisco router bought through a channel partner with a bill of material.

Negotiate discounts and estimate reseller margins, and understand embedded software licenses (perpetual versus term) and align license terms with hardware life. Evaluate support contracts, delivery and installation, and SLA options.

Compare outright purchase, capital or finance lease, and operating lease for hardware, then use a comprehensive checklist—from contracting and taxes to installation and incoterms—to make the best value decision.

learn about license pricing models: perpetual, term, and subscription—and master maintenance negotiations, tier pricing, and renewal strategies to optimize software costs.

Explore how networks connect two computers, distinguish private from public internet connections, and analyze pricing by port bandwidth, last mile, installation, equipment costs, and data encryption.

Learn to negotiate network prices by demanding a detailed breakdown of on-net and local loop costs, compare per charges across suppliers, and assess capex and opex implications.

Learn how to procure mobility services, including corporate wireless plans and data-only dongles, by choosing a single supplier, managing per-line invoicing, and monitoring roaming, caps, and termination reports.

Evaluate printers and other utilities, comparing upfront purchase, rent-to-own, lease, and printing as a service to reduce color and black-and-white per-copy costs.

Learn IT asset management and the role of the cmdb in tracking asset life cycles, inventory, contracts, and renewals. See how automated and manual updates keep configuration items current.

Explore how system integrators, consultants, OEMs, resellers, service providers, and outsourcing shape IT procurement by uniting subsystems, solutions, and non-core process management.

Understand procurement operations within the end-to-end procurement cycle, from purchase requisitions and approvals to sourcing, bid solicitation (RFI, RFP, RFQ), contracts, purchase orders, goods receipts, invoice receipts, and payments.