Contract amendment 'gives SCO Unix copyrights'
News SCO Group on Thursday discovered a 1996 amendment to the contract under which Novell sold many of its Unix assets, and the amendment appears to give SCO at least some of the Unix copyrights that could bolster its potential legal claims against...
[June 6, 2003, 9:04]
Contract Management - A Strategic Asset
White Papers This white paper has provided an overview of the principal areas where Contract Management systems can help an organization reduce its cost base and improve revenue by streamlining the processes that are employed to create and manage contracts and...
[September 1, 2005, 3:00]
Contract of Employment
Talkback Where in the airside workers' contract of employment does it say they need an ID card to do their jobs? They would not have breached any of their contract terms. I wonder what would happen if they refused to comply with this and got the sack.
[February 20, 2009, 12:28]
Contract Life-Cycle Management Attracts New Entrants
White Papers 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.
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
Contract arguments reanimate SCO dispute
News In the latest step in a legal battle over Unix copyrights, Novell has filed a countersuit against the SCO Group, charging it with twice breaking a contract. In Friday's suit, Novell argues that SCO broke the terms of a 1995 contract called the...
[August 1, 2005, 9:30]
Contract Management Addresses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Identifying the Benefits of UpsideContract Under the SOA Legislation
White Papers To help become and stay compliant with SOA requirements, organizations are leveraging contract management systems to effectively manage and report on their contractual relationships and activities. This paper describes how contract management...
[December 9, 2004, 2:00]
Contract Workforce Report: 4th Quarter - 2005
White Papers The 2006 Contract Workforce Report reveals a revived economy for IT contract workers. This paper will reveal the key IT skills that are being sought in the marketplace, and help companies and staffing firms to focus their efforts on recruiting and...
[June 24, 2009, 14:59]
Contract of Employment
Talkback In all these cases the employees contract of employment states quite plainly that the email system is not for personal use and is to be considered the property of the employer, with all communications over it remaining the property of the employer.
[January 9, 2008, 13:12]
Contract Soundness for Object-Oriented Languages
White Papers In this paper, we study the problem of contract enforcement in an object-oriented world from a foundational perspective. Pushing the analogy further, we state and prove a contract soundness theorem that captures the essential properties of contract...
[June 24, 2009, 8:19]
Contract Management Helps Meet Sarbanes-Oxley Act Requirements
White Papers Companies are now including contract management solutions like UpsideContract as an integral part of their risk management and corporate governance programs. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has increased the importance of accurate and timely corporate...
[March 31, 2005, 3:00]
Contract-Theoretic Approaches to Wages and Displacement
White Papers This paper focuses on the contract-theoretic underpinnings of wage adjustment and worker displacement in moral-hazard models of the labor market. Models of moral hazard in labor relationships have proven to be useful in explaining a variety of...
[September 15, 2003, 6:28]
Contract Management Systems
White Papers Contract Management is a discipline that has come of age. It doesn't take many contracts - either on the supplier side or the client side - to warrant implementation of an automated contract management system.
[September 8, 2003, 5:45]
Contract Management Addresses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002
White Papers To help become and stay compliant with SOX requirements, organizations are leveraging contract management systems to effectively manage and report on their contractual relationships and activities. This paper describes how contract management...
[March 31, 2005, 3:00]
Contract Management Addresses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
White Papers To help become and stay compliant with SOA requirements, organizations are leveraging contract management systems to effectively manage and report on their contractual relationships and activities. This paper describes how contract management...
[December 17, 2004, 2:00]
High Performance Commercial Building Systems From Design Through Operations: Results From New Construction Performance Contract and Beyond
White Papers The primary objective of this article is to understand the performance targets and ongoing performance of two buildings that were the subject of a new construction performance contract. Secondary objectives include examining the building...
[April 5, 2005, 3:00]
Maker of Contract Lifecycle Software Poised to Help Clients Slash Sales Cycle
White Papers Using the Microsoft Dynamics CRM business application platform, a small team of programmers at Upside Software is developing the latest version of the company's contract lifecycle management software - UpsideContract.
[September 6, 2007, 1:00]
BT cops penalties under NHS contract
News The NHS's biggest IT supplier is to pay compensation for failing to meet two important targets under its multimillion-pound contract. The company signed a £530m contract for "N3" network services in April which, in addition to its joint agreement...
[June 4, 2004, 12:45]
BT wins £30m Network Rail contract
News Network Rail has awarded BT a £30m, three-year contract to upgrade its communications infrastructure. The company — which operates Britain's rail infrastructure — will gain an IP voice and data network to replace its legacy fixed line and internet...
[June 11, 2008, 15:18]
BT wins £46.9m intercontinental service contract
News BT is heading up a £46.9m, five-year contract to revamp the IT infrastructure of transport company FirstGroup. Under the contract, dubbed Project Maxim, BT is to build two new data centres and a helpdesk in Preston, as well as bolster security on...
[March 7, 2006, 14:15]
Microsoft wins £500m NHS contract
Talkback I do not understand why our National Health Service has awarded a contract with Microsoft. Surely a cheaper alternative could have been found.
[January 1, 2005, 16:05]



