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Building a Winning Service Desk
White Papers The Service Desk not only handles incidents, and Service Requests, it also provides a route for customers to interact with all IT processes, including change requests, procurement, service level management, and sometime extend beyond traditional...
[May 8, 2009, 4:34]
More government eyes on Qwest
News The General Services Administration, the buying and procurement arm of the federal government, said in a statement that it was "conducting a review of all Qwest's government contracts and other related information for purposes of determining...
[July 15, 2002, 7:57]
Public sector wins huge IT discounts
News OGCbuying.solutions — a government e-procurement arm — is running a scheme which promises average savings of over 25 percent to public sector organisations until the end of March 2007. The government's latest deal with IT suppliers will allow...
[December 11, 2006, 8:27]
Public sector gets cut-price PCs
News OGCbuying.solutions — the Government's e-procurement arm — conducted the competition for desktop, laptops and monitors. The Government has struck a deal with IT suppliers that will allow the public sector to buy hardware with up to a 45 percent...
[August 30, 2006, 17:05]
Norway government cancels Microsoft contract
News The government made the decision because it was unsatisified with the Microsoft procurement contract, which effectively handed Microsoft a monopoly on government office software, according to Victor Norman, Norway's minister of labour and...
[July 15, 2002, 13:22]
HP folds Global Operations into three other units
News Three of HP's main business groups will absorb the logistics and procurement duties once handled by Global Operations, the company said on Tuesday in a press release on the company's Web site. Hewlett-Packard is folding the company's Global...
[June 21, 2006, 10:10]
Public sector wins new volume discounts from Microsoft
News The software giant has an existing 'memorandum of understanding' (MoU) with central government procurement watchdog the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) which expires next year. Microsoft is set to win a major victory in its battle against Linux...
[August 18, 2004, 10:25]
Europe demands action on IT accessibility
News The EC has adopted a communication encouraging member states to make e-accessibility a requirement in their procurement, to exploit existing legislation in favour of bridging the digital divide, and to experiment with using certification schemes...
[September 18, 2005, 10:35]
Dell, HP, Lenovo back Linux with driver promise
News Representatives from Dell, HP and Lenovo made the commitment at a Linux Foundation conference last week, promising to include wording in their hardware procurement processes to "strongly encourage" the delivery of open-source drivers for...
[May 2, 2008, 8:18]
Industries Chimiques du Senegal Streamlines Operations With Integrated Processes
White Papers The company wanted to replace disparate financial, procurement, and payroll systems and integrate different processes across the organization. Originally founded to meet India's demand for phosphoric acid to produce fertilizer with high-quality...
[May 30, 2007, 1:00]
Open source vendor in schools IT supply list
Blog Sirius Corporation announced on Monday that it had achieved accreditation, after being the all clear by OCG Buying Solutions, which looks after procurement for the government. An open source vendor has been made an accredited schools supplier by...
[September 23, 2008, 16:18]
Indiana cancels India outsourcing deal
News The cancellation is part of a new initiative, dubbed "Opportunity Indiana", to review the state's procurement process. Citing the need to protect local businesses, the US state of Indiana terminated a software contract it had awarded to an Indian...
[November 27, 2003, 9:00]
Government slammed for ID database 'shambles'
News The configuration of the system may change as we go into procurement. The government said on Tuesday that it had no fixed plans for the form and structure of the database that will underpin its proposed ID card scheme, sparking more criticism from...
[February 15, 2006, 16:20]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback Each countries gov has standards set for procurement. Smithy : "Doesn't oppose the dev of Open Source Software.etc" Well much like the US embassy rep, you seem not to understand the diff b/w OSS and Free software.
[January 31, 2004, 10:04]
BT attacked over UK IT skills claims
News The company is outsourcing its IT development work to India claiming it has been unable to find sufficient numbers of qualified staff in the UK, according to Meryl Bushell, chief procurement officer at BT.
[October 18, 2005, 17:55]
IBM buys BPM software provider Lombardi
News Lombardi's products are focused on improving the business processes that support functions such as product planning, supply chain execution, insurance application and claims management, human resources and IT services and procurement, IBM said in...
[December 18, 2009, 11:08]
Oracle Case Study: NNE A/S
White Papers The company decommissioned several disparate systems and replaced them with an integrated Oracle E-Business Suite solution to manage projects, resources, procurement, and financials. NNE A/S is an engineering company owned by Novo Nordisk A/S.
[December 23, 2006, 0:00]
Gov't to spend £1bn on telecoms framework
News Central and local government departments, NHS organisations and other public bodies will be provided with telecoms goods, services and client side support under the framework agreement put out by Buying Solutions, the trading arm of the government...
[July 10, 2009, 16:17]
Newham CIO sheds light on Microsoft relationship
Blog Comment This must also surely breach EU competition laws applying to local government procurement. (quote) Signatories of the MoU, which included Steel, agreed to advocate the relationship between Microsoft and Newham.unquote)
[March 5, 2009, 8:20]
Norske Skog Australasia Improves System Availability With Proactive Support Services
White Papers In 2003, Norske Skog adopted a single, integrated information platform developed on a range of PeopleSoft applications from Oracle to manage its supply chain, procurement, financial, and inventory processes.
[December 22, 2006, 0:00]
