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Spend-Management Leader Ariba Buys Into HP Server Solutions

Ariba is a leading provider of electronic procurement solutions. The company's technology offerings help companies analyze, understand, and manage their expenditures for greater cost savings and increased business process efficiency across the enterprise. With its business growing steadily, Ariba needed to upgrade its development hardware infrastructure, improve performance, and alleviate...

Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Ariba Inc., Spend-Management Leader Ariba, Purchasing & Procurement, Operational Planning, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware

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Ariba Spend Management for the Public Sector

Ariba Spend Management enables public sector users to automate and expedite all their sourcing and procurement activities. Integration of analysis, sourcing, supplier selection, contract management, purchasing, and invoicing procedures into a spend management system makes the entire purchasing process more efficient. Whether sourcing or purchasing items such as information technology,...

Tags: Sourcing, Ariba Inc., Ariba Spend Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2004-12-29

Ariba Spend Management for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Ariba Spend Management solutions allow pharmaceutical companies to automate and streamline every step in the sourcing and procurement process; from spend analysis to negotiation to supplier selection to payment. Procurement and sourcing professionals can source more categories, build closer relationships with key suppliers, and negotiate more advantageous contracts. Whether for...

Tags: Sourcing, Ariba Inc., Industry, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2004-12-29

Centralized Management and RF Security Moves Ariba to Aruba

At Ariba, the world's leading provider of enterprise commerce software systems, nearly every new employee is presented a laptop with integrated Wi-Fi. So for Ariba's IT department, building an enterprise-class Wi-Fi infrastructure wasn't an option. Ariba needed to cost-effectively rollout 802.11a+b/g services campus-wide to a technically-savy community of more than...

Tags: Ariba Inc., Aruba Networks, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless

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SumTotal Systems Case Study: Ariba, Inc.

Founded in 1996, Sunnyvale, California's Ariba, Inc. makes software that, among other things, helps companies assess, capture and reconcile spending. As Ariba grew, its management team wanted to identify the organization's strengths and weaknesses, particularly among its sales and consulting staff. With newly acquired staff and solutions added to Ariba's...

Tags: SumTotal Systems, Ariba Inc., Consulting, Outsourcing, Sales Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Sales

Case studies 2007-11-20

RightWorks aims for the number three spot in the B2B market

Marketplace enabler RightWorks wants to be the number three e-procurement behind Ariba and Commerce One. However, several obstacles remain, such as getting their name out and proving that their technology stacks up.Have you heard of RightWorks? If you haven’t, you will soon.The San Jose, CA-based e-procurement vendor is gaining ground,...

Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, B2B, Matthew Osborn, RightWorks, Commerce One, Ariba Inc., e-procurement, Mary Coleman, RightWorks Corp.

Technical articles 2000-11-03

A Leader

A leader is someone who isn't afraid to follow.TrueA leader is also someone who isn't afraid to step and get the job done.natural skill or learnt skill?I'm curious about this, is someone "born" with leadership skills or do we learn them. Ok well, obviously we can learn them, but does...

Tags: job, Leader, Supervisor, trh1948@..., networking

Discussion threads 2006-05-23

When a leader goes blah

Motivation and morale building are important aspects of leadership. Both become harder or sometimes impossible if the leader herself becomes demoralized. Part of being a good leader is self evaluation and always performing periodic self checks to determine if it is time to move on. by Ramon Padilla

Tags: Workplace, Leader, Morale, Leadership, Management, Ramon Padilla

Blog posts 2008-07-27

Tracker Leader 2005 Professional (exe)

Tracker Leader 2005 is a full-featured time tracking suite designed specifically for schedule notification, project management, expense management, work measurement, timesheet entry and reporting. It's especially suited for professionals and companies who need to track time to improve personal and team productivity, to manage projects, to manage expenses and budgets,...

Tags: Team, Leader, Tracker Leader 2005, Team Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Software downloads 2006-10-05

Start QA leader ship

Hi I just pointed as QA Leader for this small(5)group of developers. As QA tester I know what to test and how to test, But As QA Leader how can bring any guide lines to the development team?

Tags: va_don@..., QA, va_don, software, it management, project management, programming, leader, QA leader

Discussion threads 2007-02-04

Building an IT Structure for a World Leader in Construction: How Skanska's IT Group Maintains Its Focus by Outsourcing ERP Management to OneNeck

Having acquired numerous companies in the previous decade - ranging in size from $100 million to $1 billion and comprising the $3.9 billion Skanska of today - CIO was charged with migrating all the companies onto the J.D. Edwards application platform already in use by a few of the organizations....

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Leader, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

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ABB Controls Billions in Procurement Spend With SAS Supplier Relationship Management

ABB, which supplies utilities and other industries with power and automation technologies, is a truly global corporation, with business units in some 100 countries and annual revenues close to US$15 billion. As a rule of thumb, such companies spend close to half of their revenues on subcontractors, creating very large...

Tags: Supplier Relationship Management, SAS Institute, Procurement, ABB, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations

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Don't Be a Powerless Leader

The Powderless LeaderActually, I've found recently that worse than the powerless leader one who admits he has no power is the Powderless Leader - one who insists on acting as if he is the final arbiter on all matters, but lacks the gun powder to stick to his guns when...

Tags: it management, leader, shraven

Discussion threads 2007-02-27

End to End Management of a Product Line Through an ODC for a Leader in Network Storage

MindTree Consulting, a leader in business-enabling solutions, undertook the complete engineering ownership of a high availability product for a leader in Network Storage. All processes and technologies required to manage the product line are transferred and deployed within MindTree. MindTree team is responsible for sustaining the product, QA, new feature...

Tags: MindTree Consulting, Network, Storage, Leader, Network Storage, MindTree Team, Leadership, Management

Case studies 2008-01-26

What you say can -- and will -- be used against you

As an IT leader, you don't enjoy complete freedom of speech. Beyond the words and phrases that will get you dragged down to HR on a discrimination claim, there are things you can't say as an IT leader. Here are some of them. by John Sheesley

Tags: IT Professional, Professional Development, Career, John Sheesley

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Gaming Company Gets Projects Back on Track: Korean Gaming Leader Saves Money With Help From Project Management Software

As a project manager for Korean gaming leader Webzen, Huh oversees 63 game developers working on a number of projects. Keeping these talented creative types motivated, yet on schedule, is a precarious balancing act. Since its founding in 2000, in Seoul, Korea, Webzen has grown to be a global digital...

Tags: Webzen, Project Manager, Game Company, Microsoft Corp., Project Management, Games, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Personal Technology, Management

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Contract Life-Cycle Management Attracts New Entrants

CIOs and their business partners are increasingly looking for Contract Life-cycle Management CLM solutions for all of their businesses' contracts, even if they deploy them in stages for buy-side contracts first and later for sell-side contracts. The result? A fast-growing (21% CAGR from 2003 to 2008), fragmented (with at least...

Tags: Contract Lifecycle Management, Oracle Corp., Vendor

White papers 2007-08-10

BMC Service Desk Express Suite Helps Euler Hermes Standardize User Support and Incident Management

Euler Hermes, the world leader in credit insurance, and a leader in the bonding and guarantees business, has installed BMC Service Desk Express Suite, a BMC Remedy IT Service Management solution from BMC Software. BMC Service Desk Express Suite is being used to standardize management of Euler Hermes' user support...

Tags: Service Desk, BMC Software Inc., Incident Management, BMC Service Desk Express Suite, It Management, It service Management

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Shutdown Day

God idea!I think it's a good idea to spend at least one day without computers. I spend almost all my time in front of this electronic box. I don't want to say that I don't like this, but the best way to relax is to change your activity from one...

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Discussion threads 2007-03-03

Comprehensive SAP Real Estate Management Application Gives Edelweiss Competitive Lead

Formed through a management buyout by the UBS logistics management team, Switzerland-based firm Edelweiss Facility Management AG is a leader in the real estate management sector. In the search for an IT infrastructure tailored to its requirements, Edelweiss found that the mySAP ERP application provided functionality that precisely matches its...

Tags: SAP AG, Real Estate, Team Management, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Management, Software

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