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Updegrove: Obama should give FOSS equal treatment

ConsortiumInfo.org's Andy Updegrove urged President Obama to show more public support for free and open source software. In a blog featured on the site today, Updegrove said open source has made huge inroads in various government sectors, especially the Department of Defense,  but it's high time that...

Tags: Procurement, F/OSS, ConsortiumInfo.org, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Microsoft standardizes on Energy Star 5.0, EPEAT

Microsoft has joined the growing number of companies that are changing their PC procurement habits to include energy efficiency and environmental considerations. The software giant now requires all new PCs to conform not just with Energy Star 5.0, but with the guidelines set out by the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment...

Tags: Procurement, Microsoft Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Supply Chain Planning 4.2.4.6 (Windows)

SCP 4.0 has been helping companies reduce capital tied up in inventory, accurately forecast procurement needs, and enhance vendor managed inventory VMI relationships for more than 10 years. Using SCP, businesses are also saving money using full-container shipments through optimized manufacturing planning. Businesses in 15 countries have been reaping the...

Tags: Supply Chain, Microsoft Windows, Procurement, Forecasting, Jada Management Systems, SCP 4.0, Sales Force Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Purchasing & Procurement, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-09-27

Fujitsu certifies racks and towers for Energy Star 1.0 spec

In case you keep track of stuff like this on your procurement checklists, Fujitsu has certified four models of its Primergy tower and rack servers (the S5 series) as compliant with the EPA's Energy Star 1.0 server specification. They are the TX200 S5, TX300 S5, RX 200S5 and the RX300...

Tags: Server Management, Fujitsu Ltd., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Bank Al-Maghrib Enhances Procurement and Financial Management Processes, Improving Productivity

Bank Al-Maghrib wanted to improve service quality of business applications to streamline key management activities and obtain greater and faster visibility into financial activities by shortening the deadlines for monthly consolidation of reports. The challenge was to automate budgetary follow-up to save time and improve reliability. Bank Al-Maghrib worked with...

Tags: Bank, Oracle Corp., Financial, Procurement, Bank Al-Maghrib, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2009-09-01

The clouds are gathering for Coupa

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...

Tags: E-procurement, Procurement, Coupa, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Lancashire County Council Boosts Buying Efficiency With Centralized, Replicable Procurement Blueprint

Lancashire County Council wanted to maximize purchasing efficiency, gain a real-time view of spend commitment, and reduce off-contract buying and automate procurement to reduce the need for buyer intervention; creating a touch-less request through to payment process. The challenge was to reduce cost of managing suppliers and accelerate invoice payments...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-08-01

Symphony Communication Cuts Month-End Closing Time From 10 Working Days to One Week

Symphony Communication Co wanted to replace disparate management systems with a single, integrated Enterprise Resource Planning ERP platform and integrate financial, asset, inventory, order, and procurement information in a central repository to improve data quality. The challenge was to reduce the amount of manual work needed to consolidate accounts at...

Tags: Oracle Corp., ERP, Procurement, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Business Operations, Data Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

Nice Group Streamlines Process Manufacturing With Oracle E-Business Suite R12

Defending its market-leading position is a priority for Nice Group. The company's main competitors are state-owned chemical organizations and multinational enterprises such as Procter & Gamble. To ensure it can maintain market share, Nice Group implemented a new, integrated business management system based on Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. The...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Business Management, Oracle E-Business Suite, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-08-01

Barts and the London NHS Trust Lowers Procurement Costs to Become One of the Most Efficient NHS Trusts

Barts and The London NHS Trust wanted to gain real-time view of spend commitment, increase purchase order accuracy, and automate complete procure-to-pay process and leverage multimillion pound annual spend on specialist medical and general supplies to maximize volume discounts. The challenge was to enable buyers, analysts, and contract managers to...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Purchase Order, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Monitors & Displays, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Business Operations, Hardware, Components, Finance

Case studies 2009-08-01

Ten Steps to Lower Procurement Costs in Life Sciences: Drive Bottom Line Results in Only Four Months

Regardless of the economic conditions, companies that can quickly respond and take action to stay in the game ultimately emerge as market leaders. Now more than ever, the next generation of pharmaceutical and biotechnology leaders is being tested. Organizations that manage their cost structures and position themselves for growth can...

Tags: Procurement, Life Science, SciQuest, Purchasing & Procurement, Healthcare Reform, Business Operations, Healthcare

White papers 2009-07-16

Differentiating Classmates

I received my first OEM Convertible Classmate PCs late last week from CTL Corporation. My previous Classmates had been various demo units supplied by Intel with one still going strong running Ubuntu and the Intel Linux software stack; these 6 "2go PCs" were standard fare and are being used...

Tags: Intel Classmate PC, PC, Procurement, Intel Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Simulation-Based Command and Control Applications in a Service-Oriented, Cloud Computing Environment

Modeling and Simulation (M&S) technologies have matured suitably to provide real time tactical utility to warfighting Command and Control (C2) computer system users, but C2 systems adoption of M&S in their native applications has been slow for design, acceptance, computing and procurement reasons. While extensive work has been done with...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Procurement, Computing, George Mason University, Purchasing & Procurement, Supply Chain, Productivity, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2009-05-19

Will European rules impact open source business models?

Will European rules impact open source business models?Download is not the issue - its the tender processIt makes no sense to have a policy that accepts software that is 100% proprietary or 100% open source and nothing in between.Any commercial open source vendor can get around the download issue by...

Tags: Roberto, Alfresco, open source, Funambol, Pentaho

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Tianjin Ace Pillar Reduces Costs by 60% and Increases Costing Accuracy by 30%

Tianjin Ace Pillar Co. wanted to replace disparate order, inventory, procurement, and financial systems with a single, integrated Enterprise Resource Planning ERP platform and assist Chinese subsidiary to submit financial reports on time to the Taiwan head office for profit and cost analysis. The challenge was to ensure orders received...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Sales

Case studies 2009-05-01

Improving the Accuracy of Spend Analysis through Data Quality

Organisations can spend as much as 60 percent of revenue to acquire the goods and services necessary to conduct business. Procurement professionals are being asked to reduce the organisation's overall spend, while simultaneously improving supplier collaboration. Companies now realise more than ever the effect of procurement strategies on their profitability...

Tags: Data Quality, DataFlux Corp., Procurement, Analysis, Procurement Professional, Product Data, Purchasing & Procurement, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-04-30

New Microsoft State & Local Government Licensing Options & Offers

Microsoft is making the Open Value for Government and Open Value Subscription for Government volume licensing programs available in the U.S. These programs significantly expand the software procurement options available to the organization. The introduction of these programs is significant, as they offer not only savings on software licenses, but...

Tags: Software, Government, Procurement, Microsoft Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Management

Webcasts 2009-04-25

I challenge you to ask yourself: Will not-new technology do?

While the rest of the tech world works itself into frenzy over the strange yet fabulous union of Oracle and Sun Microsystems, I've been contemplating a much more mundane but potentially far-reaching issue for IT manager sorts. That is: whether or not your organization should be considering refurbished systems as...

Tags: Procurement, Redemtech, Purchasing & Procurement, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows XP, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-20

As green as your partner: New IBM consulting service helps companies apply green credo to buying practices

Follow the money. That's the best way to understand whether or not a company really has embraced green information technology policies or broader green practices. I've been saying for some time that all the great ideas around green tech were nothing if the procurement team didn't get on board. IBM...

Tags: Consulting Service, Supplier, Procurement, IBM Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Transportation, Business Operations, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Feedback on federal contracting

Feedback on federal contractingNixon in ChinaA Democratic president may actually have an easier time reforming procurement practices than a Republican one would, simply because most of the federal procurement statutes were enacted by Democratic Congresses in response to scandals back when Ronald Reagan was president. George W. Bush could...

Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, procurement

Discussion threads 2009-03-09