purchasing in comment and analysis
CRM: Don't forget about privacy
Comment Purchasing a customer relationship management (CRM) system is a complex and high profile corporate activity. Ed.note: Do you have legal questions related to IT you want answered? Email them to editorial@silicon.com and we'll consider them for... [13 Oct 2004]
Leader: E-procurement - remember it, it's now with us
Leader So we report that those people at the mobile operator who spend all that money on suppliers want to share purchasing know-how and make sure there is an audit-proof trail of who spent what and why. In the late 1990s, this writer found himself... [18 Aug 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Why machines can't bargain like humans
Comment Internet-based trading sites were supposed to revolutionise purchasing. But now the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply thinks a corner has been turned. Though technology is advancing, people are still better at handling complex... [22 Jun 2004]
Leader: Keep CIOs in the compliance loop
Leader CIOs have had to think strategically, learn to weigh ROI over 'gee-whiz' factors when purchasing tech. Corporate regulations - whether Basel II from Europe, Sarbanes-Oxley courtesy of the US or other - are coming fast and furious. [26 May 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Give us your money
Comment Most people nowadays think nothing of paying a bill or purchasing something online, so why not do this? With the 2004 London Marathon fast approaching, it's likely you will have been approached to sponsor friends, colleagues, neighbours, friends of... [15 Apr 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The ASPs that won
Comment Purchasing business applications as hosted services is an option again, after the whole concept faltered a few years ago. On the day Salesforce.com unveils its spring collection, it would seem remotely hosted applications for CRM and other business... [14 Apr 2004]
The Executive Question: The CIO's CFO
Comment In the fight for continuing cost reduction, in this gentleman’s opinion, the CIO currently has three important weapons: outsourcing, offshoring and consolidated purchasing. Enterprise-wide purchasing agreements are, I know from my own contacts... [07 Apr 2004]
Leader: How much do you spend?
Leader It seems that while the procurement and purchasing department is busy saving precision pennies on bulk staple and pencil orders, vast unknown sums are being thrown at consulting services, travel, and temporary staff by individual heads of... [10 Mar 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: BPM, software industry consolidation and Google’s monopoly?
Comment Variety has long been recognised as a major driver of IT costs and the recent ferocious cost pressures on IT departments have brought this factor into the forefront of purchasing decisions. Campaigners in the Clinton era had a saying - "It's the... [29 Feb 2004]
Analysis: E-procurement back on the agenda
Comment Kai Nowosel, head of the global purchasing commercial operation at Aventis told silicon.com the business case was based on a return on investment within 18 months. Of the many technology revolutions promised during the boom years of the late 1990s... [24 Feb 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Symbian's future, US regulatory demands and spam strategy
Comment Fujitsu and Siemens have produced point devices, for point markets, and although stylish, might be regarded by enterprise purchasing departments as a little fashionable. There was always likely to be tension when several hardware companies teamed... [22 Feb 2004]
Can Microsoft deliver on CRM?
Comment This could involve purchasing Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Servers, as well as some Service Packs, to plug possible gaps. Microsoft will have an impact on the customer relationship management market. [10 Feb 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Blind purchases
Comment We all know of people in business not qualified to be making purchasing decisions. You might as well go to some as-yet-undiscovered tribe in South America and employ one of the members to become the chief of purchasing. [28 Jan 2004]
Leader: Fighting spam - policy-makers muddy the waters
Leader Those recipients would stop replying and stop purchasing and spam would cease tomorrow but this isn't going to happen. At the EEMA spam conference this week there appeared to be two very distinct groups of people - albeit united by a common desire... [05 Dec 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Mobile ringtones, power blackouts and corporate governance
Comment They also provide a portable personal purchasing point, with a rapidly growing market for downloadable content of all formats. Mobile phones, once the business tool of only yuppies, are now the most carried item of technology as a lifestyle accessory. [01 Dec 2003]
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