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- Does open sourcing security framework lead to more secure software?
- Red Hat recently open sourced the Red Hat certificate system - software for managing user identities and privacy on a network. However, does open sourcing security software make it more secure, or does opening the code lead to vulnerabilities? An excerpt from Washington Post: The Linux...
- Tags: Software, Sourcing, Red Hat Inc., Purchasing & Procurement, Open Source, Strategy, Security, Business Operations, Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Networking giants buzz about open source
- Juniper Networks and Cisco made announcements last week that were related to open sourcing their router operating systems, but hardly anything concrete has come through. An excerpt from News.com: This week's announcements had nothing to do with open source. Juniper is allowing third parties to develop...
- Tags: Network, Operating System, Juniper Networks Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Purchasing & Procurement, Open Source, Business Operations, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Travel and Procurement: The Convergence
- According to a recent Aberdeen Group survey, companies that don't use an integrated travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management service, like Concur Travel & Expense, are falling behind in almost every measure of financial management. Aberdeen refers to these companies as "laggards" and presents figures showing that...
- Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., Procurement, Convergence, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-10-01
- The Bluesmobile via Google Earth and LEGO
- The Blues Brothers taught us many things -- always pay your taxes, always help out those you love even if it means fighting some neo-Nazis, never date a woman who owns a bazooka -- but the main lesson many of us took from the film was that retired cop cars...
- Tags: Google Inc., LEGO Co., Google Earth, Bluesmobile, Fax, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Understand your role in procurement management
- The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) from the project Management Institute PMI describes six processes within the Project Procurement Management knowledge areas. Procurement refers to the aspects of project management related to obtaining goods and services from outside companies. It does not refer to other internal...
- Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Tom Mochal, procurement, Purchasing Department, project management, team, procurement management, Project Management Newsletter, Knowledge, Project Manager, Bottom Line, Team Management, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Technical articles 2007-05-07
- Procurement 101 in government IT: Request for Proposal (RFP)
- If you're new to the procurement process in government IT, understanding how to create an RFP is a first step. Follow these tips to write an RFP that produces the competitive bids you need. Keep up with the issues and challenges that uniquely affect public-sector IT with TechRepublic's free...
- Tags: RFP, Ramon Padilla Jr., Purchasing & Procurement, procurement, information technology, Government IT Newsletter, Criteria, Government
- Technical articles 2005-04-18
- Santos Streamlines HR and Procurement on Shared Services Platform, on Track to Earn 47% Net Investment Returns
- With the oil and gas sector in the midst of a global boom, there are few companies better positioned in the market than Australia's Santos Ltd. In an effort to maximize value from emerging opportunities, Santos launched a strategic initiative designed to reduce operating costs while simultaneously increasing the effectiveness...
- Tags: Human Resources, Oracle Corp., Procurement, Santos Ltd., Santos, Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Databases, Business Operations, Software, Finance, Data Management
- Case studies
- Constructing Service Machines - Global Sourcing of Knowledge-Intensive Services
- Outsourcing highlights the need for explication and conceptualization of the relationship between the parties involved. Within the Service Sciences, Management and Engineering -framework service production systems can be studied as Service Machines. The machine -metaphor focuses research on the contractual constructions that link together various productive resources and capabilities and...
- Tags: Sourcing, Knowledge, Helsinki University, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2006-07-01
- HP and MICROS-Fidelio Support Hotels and Restaurants Around the World
- One of the world's leading suppliers of enterprise solutions for the hospitality industry, MICROS-Fidelio was formed by the merger of Micros Systems Inc. in America, and Fidelio Software GmbH Germany. The winning concept behind MICROS-Fidelio's service is that it delivers standardised solutions, ready configured and loaded with its applications. Such...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mergers & Acquisitions, Purchasing & Procurement, Outsourcing, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies
- Shaanxi Fast Gear Improves Production Efficiency
- Shaanxi Fast Gear is the leading automotive gear manufacturer in China, producing up to 15 million gear components a year. The company wanted to implement a single, integrated enterprise resource planning system to gain better management control and standardize workflows and eliminate reliance on manual processes. They wanted to enable...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Business Management, ERP, Procurement, Shaanxi Fast Gear, Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Management
- Case studies
- Middlesex University Signs a Five-Year Deal With Dell to Centrally Procure and Manage IT Network of Desktops and Notebooks
- Middlesex University, based in the United Kingdom, delivers a networked desktop environment to support study programmes for more than 23,000 students. It was one of the first universities to recognise the benefits of managed services and introduce them throughout its institution. In tendering its Desktop Managed Services contract, University was...
- Tags: Notebook, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Middlesex University, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Desktops, Business Operations, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-07-20
- North East Wales NHS Trust Automates Procurement Processes
- Following a recommendation by the National Audit Office that called for increased public sector efficiencies, the North East Wales National Health Service NHS Trust launched a major initiative in 2002 designed to bring Web-enabled procurement processes to its network of 7 hospitals. In addition to introducing paperless procurement, the Trust...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Oracle Case Study: NNE A/S
- NNE A/S is an engineering company owned by Novo Nordisk A/S. The company lacked overview of resource capacity and assignments, which made it difficult for NNE to optimize resource planning. The company decommissioned several disparate systems and replaced them with an integrated Oracle E-Business Suite solution to manage projects, resources,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., NNE A/S, Engineering, Purchasing & Procurement, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Finance, Software
- Case studies
- Japanese Electronics Firm Improves Supply Chain Efficiency With New Reporting Tools
- Hitachi Asia developed an electronic procurement system based on Microsoft SQL Server 2000. The company decided to upgrade this architecture and take advantage of a range of new business intelligence features available with Microsoft SQL Server 2005. In particular the company wanted to use the rich reporting functionality of SQL...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Reporting Tool, Microsoft SQL Server, Hitachi Ltd., Procurement, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Purchasing & Procurement, Databases, Enterprise Software, Storage, Business Operations, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Visual Studio 2005 and MSDN - A Procurement Perspective
- This webcast provides a procurement perspective of Visual Studio 2005.
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Microsoft Development Tools, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Webcasts
- Sage 1000 Joined Up Thinking - Integrating information across the enterprise
- Sharing information across a business by having staff re-key the same data into multiple systems is a perilous way of sourcing the data on which key decisions will be made. This paper examines the strategic drivers forcing companies to reconsider how they manage their activities and the implications this has...
- Tags: Information, Sage, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2007-03-01
- WCI Uses Microsoft .NET to Create World Class Supply Chain
- World Class International WCI, a rapidly growing consultancy and IT business, wanted to deliver a truly integrated e-procurement solution to enable customers to source and purchase hardware meeting its precise system requirements. Using the Microsoft .NET platform, it has developed an automated and cost-efficient online service that connects its customers...
- Tags: Supply Chain, E-procurement, Microsoft Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- E-Procurement System Wins Company New Clients in 90 Days at 60 Per Cent of the Cost of Unix
- 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...
- Tags: E-procurement, Microsoft Corp., Unix, Purchasing & Procurement, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- Automating Procurement Process Sample 1 (Windows)
- This white paper demonstrates some of BizTalk Server's many capabilities through a business scenario. This is an automated procurement process in which requests for quotation RFQs for a commodity item are sent out to three suppliers. The suppliers send back their quotes and an order to the lowest bidder is...
- Tags: Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft BizTalk Orchestration, Microsoft Windows, Procurement, Application Servers, Web Services, Purchasing & Procurement, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2007-09-06
- Citelum Cuts Its Period-End Closure Times by 66% to Meet Shareholder Requirements
- Now a subsidiary of Dalkia, Citelum is a French-based company that supplies, operates and maintains public lighting, particularly in urban areas. Citelum wanted to give head office a better overall view of the group's business and improve management productivity. The challenge was to speed up report production to meet shareholder...
- Tags: Shareholder, Oracle Corp., Citelum, Financial Accounting, Purchasing & Procurement, Finance, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-04-01
