Microsoft 365 Price Increase 2026, What It Actually Costs You
The Real Price Increases The Microsoft 365 price increase that landed on July 1, 2026 touched every major plan, and the headline numbers only tell part of the story. E3 went from $36 to $39 a user a month, while E5 moved from $57 to $60. Office 365 E3 jumped 13%, from $23 to $26, which is a sharper rise than most teams budgeted for. Frontline plans took the heaviest hit, with F1 up 33% from $2.25 to $3 and F3 up 25% from $8 to $10. If your business runs on shift workers, reta
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Shadow AI Spend Is Quietly Becoming Procurement's Biggest Blind Spot
For years, procurement software meant one thing, a system for raising purchase orders and routing approvals. That definition is breaking down fast, and it has nothing to do with procurement itself, it's about what companies are actually buying now. A midsized company today runs well over a hundred SaaS tools across departments, and sitting alongside that is a growing pile of AI subscriptions purchased outside any formal process. This is shadow AI spend, and it is quickly beco
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