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Purchasing Automation Helps Protect Brand Image

Shifts in perception are largely caused by differences from property to property - or even within just one property itself - resulting in brand image changes or brand corruption. Simple things matter - like the soap used in a property's room in Florida should be the same as the soap...

Tags: Brand, Brand Image, Property, Bellwether Software, Branding, Marketing

White papers 2008-10-07

SOX Compliance - Purchasing Departments Face Intense Scrutiny

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SOX, is an on-going migraine headache for corporate America because compliance is expensive, confusing and increasingly stringent. Companies are justifiably nervous about the uncertainty surrounding internal controls since no governing bodies have precisely determined what compliance with Section 404 actually means. Purchasing functions, especially, come under close...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SOX Compliance, Bellwether Software, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

White papers 2008-09-02

Web-Based, SaaS Purchasing Model Lives Up to Its Promises

ePMX is or ePurchase Management eXtra is an On Demand/SaaS procurement solution for purchasing and material management. The entire ePMX suite has been built from the ground up for SaaS delivery. Bellwether Software has been a leader in e-procurement software since 1985. The company has put in years of experience...

Tags: Web, Software-as-a-service, E-procurement, Bellwether Software, ePMX, ePMX Suite, Software As A Service (SaaS), Purchasing & Procurement, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations

White papers 2008-07-31

ePMX: The Next Generation Software for Purchase Management

Since 1985 Bellwether Software has developed software that provides enterprise purchasing and e-procurement solutions for all types of businesses. The latest generation of the software, ePMX, is e-procurement software offered using an ASP model sometimes called On-demand software or Software as a Service SaaS. This software is also offered via...

Tags: Software, E-procurement, Bellwether Software, Purchasing & Procurement, Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Business Operations, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2008-05-07

Health Care Groups Automate Purchasing Cycle to Improve Profits

The Health Care industry's needs are as diversified as the needs of the patients they care for, and patient care has traditionally been at the forefront of the industry's focus. Ranking second only to patient care is regulatory compliance. In Health Care there is a never-ending myriad of regulations. Compliance...

Tags: Patient, Health Care, Bellwether Software, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2008-02-08

Purchasing Automation Evaluation Checklist

When beginning to evaluate software options for purchasing automation, it's important to differentiate between things that one must have and things that are nice to have. Once established, the list of things one must have can be used to shorten the number of potential options, while the list of things...

Tags: Checklist, Bellwether Software, Tools & Techniques, Free Trade, Management, Finance

White papers 2008-02-07

Discover How Companies Increase Performance & Profits Through Purchasing Automation

Companies tend to underestimate the amount of money that is dribbling away due to inefficient Maintenance, Repair and Operating MRO purchasing processes. They are focused on the big ticket expenses. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of dollars could be saved simply by investing in purchasing automation. One of the major sources...

Tags: Performance, Automation, Bellwether Software

White papers 2007-12-24

Additional Resources

Is your supply chain gonna kill you?

Jason Busch has an excellent post: Friday Rant: Beyond SarbOx -- Waiting for the Big One to Hit . I'm betting few people want to talk about this particular hot potato. Please don't choke on your early morning coffee. He says: Then as now [when SarbOx was enacted], companies...

Tags: Supply Chain, International Financial Reporting Standards, Audit, Jason Busch, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-04

SXSWi - party like its 2009

Prior to SXSWi I was asked goodness knows how many times if I was likely to be there. I said the same thing to all comers: 'I don't get it. I don't see the point. Waste of time.' Much against my advice, at least one SAP...

Tags: Innovation, Austin, Enterprise, SXSWi, Drunkenness, Breakthrough Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Observations: what's moving the SOA market these days

I just had the chance to catch up with MomentumSI's Jeff Schneider while he was up in the Princeton, NJ, area. MomentumSI does a lot of consulting and integration work for SOA projects in organizations across the country, so Jeff's practice is a good bellwether for what's on the minds...

Tags: SOA, Jeff Schneider, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-06-08

Is Apple a barometer of the consumer economy?

During the investor conference call over Apple's December fiscal first quarter conference, analysts kept pressing executives about whether the Cupertino company is the bellwether for the consumer spending. But Apple's value proposition is different than the rest of the industry and so is its customer base, making it tough to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Digital Equipment Corp., Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-01-22

Microsoft unviels its 'Internet Service Bus'

More indications that Microsoft is getting serious about SOA:Chris Kanaracus of Redmond Developer News has brought to light some very interesting activity coming out of Microsoft regarding delivery of the SOA paradigm. Namely, Microsoft is planning to deliver enterprise service bus functions on a Software as a Service model.Now, there's...

Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General

Blog posts 2007-07-18

How will open source do in a talent-short age?

How will open source do in a talent-short age?EpsDelYou forget that open source did not begin as a commercial project, but from the desire to create the best software out there (at least FSF's software).So, even if I were to work in a closed-source environment, I'd spend my spare time...

Tags: Workforce management, Tools & Techniques, talent, open source, software

Discussion threads 2007-07-05

Microsoft inks Linspire: Is Red Hat next?

Microsoft inked its third Linux interoperability deal as the third version of General Public License nears the finish line. Will Red Hat fall in line soon?Microsoft today announced an interoperability deal with Linspire and the pact reads roughly like the one it has with Xandros. As we all know Microsoft...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Red Hat, Open Source, Novell, Microsoft, Linux, General

Blog posts 2007-06-14

Trouble in Vista paradise? Large software vendor warns of major compatibility problems and burdensome remedies

Trouble in Vista paradise? Large software vendor warns of major compatibility problems and burdensome remediesSimple solutionAll of Intuit's customers can switch to Microsoft's products.This kind of thing happens every few years, and after a while Intuit will figure out how to make their stuff MSVista-only for what customers they have...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Intuit QuickBooks, Intuit Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-01-25

The importance of Solaris 10

The importance of Solaris 10Plan 9 from Outer SpaceBefore its death, Solaris was a sales point for Sun's hardware. After its death, Solaris is useful to its prior users without being of advantage to others because of widespread adoption.Sun did draw inspiration from Ed Wood. With Jonathon Schwartz...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Sun Solaris 10, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Plan 9

Discussion threads 2006-10-06