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Sap Solutions for E-Sourcing : Enabling Procurement Transformation

Under pressure to deliver constant profitability, procurement organizations must effectively manage and increase visibility into expenditures and streamline the process of selecting suppliers. SAP solutions for e-sourcing enable negotiation activities such as auctions, requests for proposals, information and quotation, plus services to deliver the right offering the need to begin...

Tags: e-Sourcing, SAP AG, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations

White papers 2006-07-01

mySAP All-in-One at Sparkice

Sparkice was founded in 1996 with the vision of becoming a leading e-sourcing organization for Chinese products and services. There were no back-end ERP systems, and report generation - on Excel - was extremely difficult, necessitating a lot of manual work. Sales orders and invoices were also a problem, with...

Tags: mySAP, e-Sourcing, SAP AG, Sparkice, Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software

Case studies

eSourcing Assessment

This client was utilising an existing SAP procurement system, but considered that it was not realising the full benefits of the system. Capgemini was engaged to undertake a review of the client's use of the SAP system, together with a wider eSourcing assessment. The Capgemini team created an eVision for...

Tags: Capgemini, e-Sourcing, SAP AG, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations

Case studies

Additional Resources

Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?

  A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...

Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuit

Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuitFragmentParagraph 3 Sentance 1 is a fragment, its missing the part that we need... what the lawsuit is actually about!Nothing new here folks, move along, move along.This isn't something new here. Microsoft is always infringing on someone elses IP.Are these guys...

Tags: Corporate communications, MS Silverlight, video, patent, lawsuit, Olympic Games, Web, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.

OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...

Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Yahoo's open source bet is a long run thing

Yahoo's open source bet is a long run thingYahoo's open source bet is a long run thingBad for Google, great for everyone else!"In the long run we're all dead......and for a long time."RE: Yahoo's open source bet is a long run thingIs there anything open source at all about what...

Tags: MS API, Open sourcing, open source, Darwin, Apple Inc., Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

Software's drive to become like television

Software's drive to become like televisionTypoFrom the comment:Free as in cost software, however, has the advantage of achieving large market share very quickly, as the consumption barrier is practically non-existent. That’s the recipe for the success of both Adobe and Flash, two products that clearly dominate their respective categories, but...

Tags: TV, advertisement, software

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore ok

Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore okBy the same token......who are the "customers" of the "back office" people? Yeah, the CSRs. You keep them in house but outsource the "back office", and all you've accomplished is a slight shift of the dissatisfaction - your...

Tags: Operational accounting, Strategy, back-office, outsourcing, Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction, back-office offshore, offshore outsourcing, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Will Oracle answer these questions?

Tomorrow sees Oracle provide its Q4 results. I have no more insight into what those numbers will look like than anyone else but if past history is anything to go by, they'll likely be 'dramatic.' More dramatic for me though will be insights...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Reddit: open source not special sauce

Social news site reddit today announced that it is open-sourcing the majority of the site's code, including parts of the algorithm that determines what stories hit the front page. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Digg, Reddit, Site, Open Source, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Windows will go open source when pigs fly

Windows will go open source when pigs flyMicrosoft can not afford to go to open source....People will see how much of other companies IP they have used.Er??? >> Er???"Pliny the Elder" had it right, your ("SpikeyMike") logic is wrong or you misread the post.expanding on the statement: If MS code...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., open source, F/OSS, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

fbOpen: Facebook open-sources its Platform

Facebook has gone ahead and open-sourced major parts of the Facebook Platform, the means by which third-party developers write applications for the site. "This release is just a first step in providing you a look into Facebook Platform, and we hope you'll help us iterate on and...

Tags: Developer, Facebook, Open Source, Facebook Open Platform, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Via open sources laptop designs; Will it make Via relevant as a chipmaker again?

Via open sources laptop designs; Will it make Via relevant as a chipmaker again?VIA exposes open source limitsThis move exposes the logical limits of open source. You can't "open source" everything because it costs hundreds of millions to run a fabrication operation. The gesture of releasing the design either becomes:...

Tags: Notebooks, Semiconductors, CAD Design, open source, laptop computer, PCB, open sources laptop design, laptop design, chip company

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Via open sources laptop designs; Will it make Via relevant as a chipmaker again?

Via has open sourced a laptop--computer assisted design documents, 3D models and all of the specifications--but let's be clear about the motives. Via wants to sell more chips and motherboards to power this device with hopes to become a little more relevant. Via calls this contraption the...

Tags: Open Source, Motherboard, Laptop Computer, Laptop Design, Wireless Module Option, Module Option, Chipsets, CAD, Notebooks, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Facebook to open source its developer platform?

While it's not yet official, TechCrunch reports that Facebook is planning to open source its Facebook Platform, the means by which third-party developers can build applications for the social networking site. In a direct response to Google's 'combine and conquer strategy' with Open Social, Facebook will turn...

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Juggle that carbon: IBM releases a tool for managing the impact of corporate supply chains

The services team at IBM Global Business Services has developed a software application for helping companies collect, analyze and manage the impact of their supply chains when it comes to carbon footprints. Called the Carbon Tradeoff Modeler, the application does things like help an executive understand and...

Tags: Supply Chain, Tool, IBM Corp., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Transportation, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-05-25

Windows 7: The information lockdown

Windows 7: The information lockdownSeriously!They're not even saying anything when they should be going beyond open sourcing their new product! They should give it away, I mean, that's how everyone makes money isn't it?! Giving away your stuff? I mean, yeah, *I* can't do that because I need to pay...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Quick Look, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-23

IBM executive defines next generation of enterprise datacenters through cloud computing

IBM Vice President for Enterprise Systems Rich Lechner took the stage at the Forrester Research IT Forum on Tuesday to explore the definition of new enterprise datacenters that will enable new levels of business innovation. Factors buffeting the definition of the new class of datacenterinclude globalization, a...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Data Center, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Microsoft: Half of Exchange inboxes to be Microsoft-hosted in five years

Microsoft: Half of Exchange inboxes to be Microsoft-hosted in five yearsWho knows better?[i]What’s your take? Is Capossela’s projection overly ambitious? Too conservative (in that it shouldn’t take five years for this move to happen)? Or does it sound on the money, to you?[/i]Since Microsoft is in a position to enforce...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Sam, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-05-19