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		<title><![CDATA[The clouds are gathering for Coupa]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1166]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I read something and it makes me smile from ear to ear, most often because it generates another of those ah-ha moments that keep tech people motivated. Reading Vinnie Mirchandani's  SCARS: SaaS and Cloud Allowance Rebate System  was one of those moments. Much as I am tempted...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:13:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xerox Uses Software as a Service to Meet Contractual Obligations and Optimize Client Value]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=389657]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Xerox wanted to go live, deploy, and roll out solution within tight timescales and ensure 100% up-time and rapid user response times. The challenge was to gain the scalability to transact increasing volumes of sales orders, purchase orders, and supplier invoices throughout the life of the contract and add new...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Web-Based, SaaS Purchasing Model Lives Up to Its Promises]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=936017]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ePMX: The Next Generation Software for Purchase Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=936015]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[On-demand software squared: Coupa launches SaaS e-procurement system running on Amazon's EC2 service]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On-demand software squared: Coupa launches SaaS e-procurement system running on Amazon's EC2 serviceIt's not going to be pretty for awhile ...The Amazon S3 SLA is a good move, but note that for Coupa to work for a customer S3 must be up, EC2 must be up, the network access to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:08:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[On-demand software squared: Coupa launches SaaS e-procurement system running on Amazon's EC2 service]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6667]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Coupa will launch an on-demand e-procurement software suite on Monday that is built on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud Web service.  For those keeping score at home that makes the Coupa suite an on-demand service running on an on-demand service. The launch also makes Coupa one of Amazon's early corporate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:11:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Forrester Wave: eProcurement Solutions, Q2 2007]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=295098]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[eProcurement solutions play a key role in improving purchasing processes in enterprises through automating requisitions and purchase orders for goods and services, decentralizing buying, connecting to suppliers directly, and improving employee compliance with preferred supplier policies. Using a combination of vendor surveys, product demos, and client references, Forrester evaluated 14...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Coupa: Can e-procurement apps tackle the midmarket?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4718]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  Can two Oracle alumni hit bring e-procurement applications to the midmarket? Coupa, a Foster City, Calif., startup sure hopes so.     Coupa, founded by Dave Stephens and Noah Eisner after years in Oracles advanced procurement group, will announce Coupa eProcurement Express on Monday. The software...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:10:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Coupa's Midmarket plan]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://content.zdnet.com/2346-10532_22-59633.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Coupa is launching its e-procurement system for the midmarket. A look at key details.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:33:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Government E-Procurement System Leads to Greater Transparency, Lower Prices]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=336357]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government of Romania replaced its paper-based public acquisitions procedures with a government-wide e-procurement system running Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. The system supports online reverse auctions for standard high-volume products and electronic tendering processes for more complex contracts. There is now greater transparency in public procurement,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[e-Procurement - Strengthening the Indirect Supply Chain Through Technology Globalization]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=160040]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[e-Procurement focuses on several innovative solutions with a single global Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system as a foundation. An Internet negotiations tool was introduced to achieve additional cost savings and negotiation efficiencies. This paper outlines the challenges, improvements, and results for the e-Procurement program that transformed the Intel IDM organization...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[eProcurement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=135173]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The eEurope initiatives have made online government a European priority. ICT can effectively make government more accessible and remove existing administrative and commercial barriers across the Union. Public procurement is one of the key areas where these new technologies can improve and simplify the way government operates and help remove...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cable & Wireless: The mySAP Supplier Relationship Management Application Helps Global Telecom Drive Purchasing Efficiency, Compliance, Savings]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=168946]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Cable & Wireless is a global telecommunications provider that is leveraging the functionalities of the mySAP Supplier Relationship Management mySAP SRM application to:    Drive e-procurement  Enforce compliance  Reduce costs    The company looked at a number of e-procurement products before choosing mySAP SRM...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Avnet, Inc. Leverages IBM Expertise to Reduce Procurement Costs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=133777]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Avnet, Inc. (www.avnet.com), based in Phoenix, is one of the world's largest business-to-business distributors of semiconductors; interconnect passive and electromechanical components; enterprise network and computer equipment; and embedded systems from leading manufacturers. The challenge was to reduce the total cost of ownership of procurement solutions, including lowering both the cost...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency works with around 400 NHS trusts and health authorities and manages 3,000 national purchasing contracts, influencing around half of the £7 billion spent in the NHS on purchasing goods and services in the health service in the UK. More than 100 NHS organisations and...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sweden: Public e-procurement System Saves Taxpayers' Money]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accepting the common wisdom that a lot of taxpayers' money can be saved by coordinating public procurement procedures, the Swedish government established a coordination function for public procurement in 1998. The task was to coordinate the procurement of all 300 authorities operating directly under the government and its more than...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Leading Telecom Company Uses mySAP Supplier Relationship Management (mySAP SRM) to Create an E-Procurement System That Spans the Globe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=168948]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ericsson is the world's leading supplier of mobile systems. Seeing an opportunity to cut costs, increase productivity, and streamline its business-support system landscape, the company began investigating how it could implement a common global purchasing process in order to work with its suppliers in a more productive and uniform way....]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[E-Procurement System Wins Company New Clients in 90 Days at 60 Per Cent of the Cost of Unix]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yokogawa Electric Corporation's industrial automation business area sells up to 13,000 products, which can be ordered in 100,000 combinations. Ordering the appropriate combination of these products can take a lot of time, which has led to demands for faster turnaround amongst customers. To simplify the procedure, Yokogawa looked to Microsoft...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S.$250 Million Annual Savings Expected as a State in India Launches eProcurement]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andhra Pradesh, population 80 million, is the third largest state in India. The state government needed to replace its paper-based system for handling bid requests to cut procurement time and to increase competition by making it easier for vendors to participate. Microsoft Certified Partner C1 India created a Web-based eProcurement...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Red Hat Offers Gruner + Jahr Higher Performance at Lower Cost]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a workforce of over 11,500 and revenue of more than 2.44 billion Euro in fiscal year 2004, Gruner + Jahr is Europe's largest magazine publishing house. Like most companies, Gruner + Jahr also faced the challenge of having to achieve ever greater performance with ever fewer resources. Attracted by...]]></description>
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