Knowledge base Overview: Insight Procurement Platform

Technology is the lifeblood of modern businesses, so it’s imperative your IT procurement processes are seamless, secure, and reliable.

The Insight procurement platform is a helpful tool to remove the barriers between your vendors and lines of business. The result: Your organization can spend more time focusing on its objectives than managing processes and tools.

In this blog, we explore how your organization’s procurement managers and IT administrators can use your Insight account as a single source for streamlining technology purchasing and reporting for hardware and software.

The benefits of procuring through your Insight account

Your organization can use the Insight platform to realize a host of benefits:

• Reduced buying cycles and maverick spending through tailored workflows that improve your bottom line.
• Drive greater value and eliminate pain points by understanding and analyzing a live snapshot of your purchasing activity.
• Optimize your processes with client-defined fields — and custom order data and templates — for repeatable purchases.

The Insight platform can also integrate with more than 500 supplier systems. That means you’ll be able to save time, money, and resources while shortening your purchase cycles.

Insight procurement capabilities

Our procurement platform includes several capabilities to help you control IT purchases, including:

• Dashboards: From a central control panel, you can manage your purchases with views of your most recent workflows, orders, invoices, and spending data. Drag and drop your preferred panes to customize the dashboard to your role.
• Reporting: It’s easy to track procurement performance with our dynamically generated reports to analyze spend, invoices, and usage. Stay on top of your business with tracking capabilities, including ordering, imaging, and shipping.
• Account customization: Our e-procurement experience puts you in control of your IT investments through a variety of customizable tools. Tailor your product catalog to adhere to company standards or give users access to our 8,000+ hardware, software, and cloud partners.
• Approval routing: We offer multiple ways to create a procurement experience that meets your organization’s needs. You can create custom approval routing processes and user roles that eliminate guesswork and errors.

What can I purchase through an Insight account?

You can purchase both hardware and software through the Insight platform.

Our procurement platform gives you access to a complete line of hardware that’s ready to ship or expertly configured for you. Any purchase you make can be bundled with our IT lifecycle services, providing you with additional options, including:

• Asset disposition
• Device as a service
• Integration and deployment
• Maintenance and support

Additionally, we have relationships with all major software publishers and both established and emerging cloud providers — along with the tools and services to easily manage licenses and agreements.

We can help address your ongoing software challenges through:

• Software e-procurement
• Software procurement services
• Software Asset Management (SAM) services
• Optimization consulting

We also provide financing and leasing options to ensure you can get the technology solutions you need when you need them. Insight offers a variety of programs to help you stretch your dollars through low monthly payments.

And, your organization can expand its employee benefits package with the Insight Employee Purchasing Program. Staff can use your discounted corporate pricing on personal technology purchases at no cost to the business. Insight manages this offering on your behalf through the Insight platform, providing staff access to our diverse product selection, secure purchasing and quick delivery.