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The new standard for software assets
News Am I paying the appropriate licence fees to the right suppliers? The company's directors, James Rowlands and Hugh Skingley, talked to ZDNet UK about the issue of software asset management, the role of the larger suppliers and the role of...
[April 27, 2006, 12:40]
IT managers get clarification on recycling duties
News Companies buying IT equipment should expect to negotiate with suppliers over whether to take on the recycling costs of new hardware, or simply pay a premium for the tech vendor to handle the process, according to the Environment Agency and DTI.
[January 24, 2007, 16:04]
Paying double as a company policy?
Talkback Given that most large suppliers have a short list of preferred suppliers that usually includes the Top 5 directly or indirectly. If manufacturers state that they hardly ever sell systems without pre-installed Windows then doesn't that mean that...
[March 21, 2007, 8:05]
A Sense of What Is Possible: A Leading Power Utility Reaches for Transactional Efficiency
White Papers In the course of its activities, the company contracts with suppliers of all kinds, receiving, processing and paying thousands of invoices every week. The challenge with such a heavy volume of daily transactions is the risk of creating duplicate...
[March 12, 2008, 0:01]
Broadband Customers Overpaying By 70%
Blog Comment It's like utility suppliers. Yup, it is shocking the prices people are paying in this country for broadband. But like you, I expect many don't want the downtime or can't be bothered to switch.
[August 27, 2008, 14:17]
Accounts Payable: Tracking Obligations to Suppliers, Controlling Cash Flow, and Making Sound Cash Management Decisions Is Now Easier Than Ever
White Papers OPEN SYSTEMS Accounting Software (OSAS) Accounts Payable application helps you track your obligations to suppliers and control your cash flow. It's also your key to paying bills, printing checks, and monitoring the distribution of your expenses.
[October 25, 2005, 3:00]
RIP Net neutrality?
News Although few details have been forthcoming so far, the proposition mooted is that online content and service providers should pay a tariff to ensure their traffic is given priority over other non-paying suppliers.
[June 7, 2006, 15:30]
British Library to put more priceless images online
News The British Library is looking for IT suppliers to help improve its online images service. Prospective suppliers are to respond to the tender notice by 3 June, 2005. New services to be offered include an enhanced search capability, "e-commerce...
[May 12, 2005, 16:30]
Be prepared to pay for security
Talkback It might become the case that suppliers will find out that not charging an extra "security insurance fee" is a commercially attractive business plan as long as they provide guidelines and support to their customers as to use what how.
[August 24, 2005, 21:36]
Gov't stung by 'poor value' outsourcing deals
News Compass said that managers and systems need to be put in place to work with suppliers to monitor performance and control spending once the contract gets underway, in a process similar to the setting up of a vendor-management office.
[April 7, 2008, 9:20]
What the credit crunch means for IT
News Indian outsourcing companies face considerable risk from their reliance on the global banking sector, with the country's top five service suppliers depending on the financial sector for about 45 percent of their business.
[September 17, 2008, 12:58]
Intel boosts virtualisation with quad-core Xeons
News Virtualisation technology built into both processors enables third-party software — from suppliers such as VMware and XenSource — to more efficiently manage multiple virtual machines, potentially improving hardware utilisation.
[August 14, 2007, 12:28]
Sun hones blade-server range
News A similar test centre will be set up in Texas focussing on suppliers to Wal-Mart Stores. For customers who are paying the $100-per-employee price for Sun's server software, called the Java Enterprise System, the desktop software cost drops to $50...
[December 3, 2003, 14:00]
MusicNet chief: Download this, not Napster
News But if you have to go through the process from the beginning of striking content deals with the major suppliers of music, and then talking to artists if they have an issue, and publishing all that stuff to your server, it's going to take a long...
[July 19, 2002, 9:22]
Red Hat: Open source driven by anti-US sentiment
News The reality of the IT market for many years is that it has been dominated by handfuls of very large, very American suppliers," said Taylor. In particular, he said, people resent paying billions of dollars in "intellectual property taxes" to giant...
[March 26, 2008, 15:27]
Oyster e-money shelved amid cost wrangling
News Transport for London (TfL) last year shortlisted seven potential suppliers to transform Oyster from a ticketing system into a means of paying for goods such as coffee and newspapers. Plans to turn the Oyster fare smartcard into an electronic wallet...
[May 10, 2006, 10:40]
Small businesses 'risk missing opportunities of broadband'
News Only relatively recently have suppliers begun paying attention to the business market, rather than the entertainment needs of consumers. One of the leading players in the UK's business sector has warned that small businesses are in grave danger of...
[November 21, 2005, 14:45]
TheStreet.co.uk shuts its doors
News We are paying all our staff, all our suppliers and all our advertisers, and saying 'Thanks very much, goodbye,' " said McQueen. The latest UK dot-com to face the axe is financial site TheStreet.co.uk, an affiliate of US-based TheStreet.com.
[November 16, 2000, 15:43]
Tories liable to compensate ID scheme vendors
News A Conservative government would have to compensate suppliers of the National Identity Scheme for lost profits as well as costs if it cancelled the project. Davis wrote to the potential suppliers of the scheme in February, giving formal notice that...
[May 29, 2008, 8:48]
Help for International Language Barriers
Talkback In most cases it is hard to determine this if you can't speak the language of potential suppliers for goods and services that can trim your bottom line and increase your profits. The average business most probably is paying way too much for...
[November 24, 2006, 12:26]
