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- In 'Everything as a Service' era, quality of services and processes grows paramount, says HP's Purohit
- IT's job is evolving to make sure all services really work deep inside of business process -- regardless of their origins and sourcing. Quality of component services is therefore assurance of quality processes, and so the foundation of general business conduct and productivity. by Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- HP's Andy Isherwood on running IT like a business, with an eye to transforming IT's role
- The financial situation at the moment is driving a more intense look at those sourcing options and what it does from a financial point of view for that particular organization. ... SaaS is a great offering. We’ve been in that business for nine years and we have 700 customers. So,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- A Better Plan for the Future With HP
- At Red River College, the second largest educational institution in Manitoba, technology has always been an important part of the student experience. The College wanted to enter into a partnership with local reseller support to facilitate procurement and financing, help with future technology planning, and provide a reliable, scalable infrastructure....
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- How to pitch a CIO successfully
- Here are key tips to help technology and services vendors successfully sell to CIOs. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- How Organisations Find Consultants and Experts in the Open Market?
- There is significant scope for improving the way in which organisations and individual buyers find consultants, experts and professional services when panels and tenders are not appropriate. Because of the flexibility and low cost base this sourcing approach offers, it is projected to continue or grow as a legitimate approach...
- White papers 2009-03-01
- The City and County of Swansea Improves Visibility and Drives Efficiency With Automated Procurement
- City and County of Swansea wanted to improve efficiency by consolidating procurement across all council departments, replacing localized IT systems and eliminating manual, paper-based processes and raise visibility and improve control of purchasing activity throughout the council. The challenge was to ensure compliance with purchasing policy and eliminate suspected maverick...
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Sify Technologies Streamlines Financials, Purchasing, and Inventory With Unified Platform
- Off late, Sify Technologies realized that its legacy opportunity management, order entry, and procurement and inventory system was no longer able to support the company's growth plans. Without a standard system for procurement and inventory, the company grappled with data from disparate sources and a slow invoice reconciliation process. To...
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Yelp's bad press lesson: Squash the allegation, not the reporter
- There are valuable business lessons about bad press that I hope Yelp is taking away this week, following a pretty scathing and really long report that accuses the popular reviews site of manipulating reviews for money. The first thing you should know is that the report appeared...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Peanut recall and supply chain worries
- As the Peanut Corp. of America scandal rolls on, a new bit of information has thickened the plot: Chinese organic peanuts may have been the source of another Salmonella outbreak at PCA back in 2006. Now that China is part of the story we have a full blown worst practice...
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Ariba sees goodwill in AribaWeb open source release
- CTO Bhaskar Himatsingka told ZDNet "we don't have any plans to leverage it" as a profit center. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Are you looking at other vendors? Absolutely!!
- It's E-Rate season...That means signed contracts in hand with our vendors of choice for Internet, phone, and other technological infrastructure issues if we'd like to receive federal reimbursement for large percentages of our costs related to Internet access. It also means that it's a fine time to review our...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Dalekovod d.d. Achieves Procurement Savings of More Than 20%
- Dalekovod d.d. wanted to find standardized software solution with construction industry functionality to aid regional and global expansion and reduce risk of losing application support for antiquated legacy applications which rely on increasingly hard-to-find expertise. The challenge was to replace existing software, which did not allow for precise control and...
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Collaboration and Automation Boost Efficiency Across South Lanarkshire Council
- Every council throughout the United Kingdom is charged with reducing spending and making efficiency improvements of 2.5% year-over-year. Councils have to make these savings across every department - from customer services and IT to human resources finance, and procurement. Since its creation in 1996, South Lanarkshire Council has systematically updated...
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Before you can get a grip, you have to get a grip. IBM aims to help.
- I'm starting to wonder how much extra storage devices will be needed to archive all the carbon emissions and other green-related data that companies are desperately trying to start tracking as a way of figuring out where to go from here! The latest addition to this admirable...
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Transforming Communication Services With Global Sourcing
- The client, a leading communication solutions provider with over $35 billion revenues and more than 20 million customers, set out to transform its operations to provide next generation services. The existing infrastructure had a number of drawbacks like Operational Inefficiencies, Disoriented workflow and redundancy, Disparate systems, Lack of process coherence,...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
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