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		<title>10 Steps to Control Wireless Costs Through Consumption Management</title>
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		<description>Intended audience: Telecom VPs, Managers &#38; Directors, IT Finance Managers, IT Managers, IT Procurement VPs, CIO In the telecom and data communications environment, the challenge is to strike the right balance between understanding corporate usage...</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Telecom Expense Management: 5 Best Practices for Reducing Telecom Cost</title>
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		<description>Intended audience: Telecom VPs, Managers &#38; Directors, IT Finance Managers, IT Managers, IT Procurement VPs CIO Telecommunications expenses are among the largest cost items on corporate income statements.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Going green: A guide for CIOs</title>
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		<description>Or the IT procurement team could include green criteria when selecting external partners. Stuart Roberts explains how to get it right. Before the downturn, green IT - or environmentally sustainable computing - was one of the common threads on CIO...</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Barts and the London NHS Trust Lowers Procurement Costs to Become One of the Most Efficient NHS Trusts</title>
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		<description>Barts and The London NHS Trust wanted to gain real-time view of spend commitment, increase purchase order accuracy, and automate complete procure-to-pay process and leverage multimillion pound annual spend on specialist medical and general...</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bank Al-Maghrib Enhances Procurement and Financial Management Processes, Improving Productivity</title>
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		<description>Bank Al-Maghrib wanted to improve service quality of business applications to streamline key management activities and obtain greater and faster visibility into financial activities by shortening the deadlines for monthly consolidation of reports.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Erlanger Health System Upgrades Enterprise Applications to Improve Efficiency and Reduce Costs</title>
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		<description>Erlanger Health System upgraded to Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Management 9.0 to elevate the efficiency of financial management, procurement, and human resources processes. Erlanger Health System wanted to upgrade to the latest version of Oracle...</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>PT Daya Adira Mustika Handles 50% More Product Orders Each Day With Integrated System</title>
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		<description>PT Daya Adira Mustika wanted to replace heavily customized legacy applications used to manage financials, product procurement, sales orders and inventory and overcome data quality and workflow issues that exist in the database and across various...</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Nice Group Streamlines Process Manufacturing With Oracle E-Business Suite R12</title>
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		<description>The solution integrated Nice Group's financial, manufacturing, and supply chain processes, giving the company greater insight into accounts, procurement, inventory, and production workflows. As a result, Nice Group has lowered inventory and...</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Symphony Communication Cuts Month-End Closing Time From 10 Working Days to One Week</title>
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		<description>Symphony Communication Co wanted to replace disparate management systems with a single, integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform and integrate financial, asset, inventory, order, and procurement information in a central repository to...</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Manage and Secure Your Mobile Devices Efficiently</title>
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		<description>Symantec has identified specific strategies for mobile devices to automate procurement and provisioning, provide ongoing maintenance and protection, and quickly retire the mobile devices if they are lost, stolen or replaced - all while protecting...</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Reduces Inventory Costs by 15%, Cuts Reporting Time With Oracle E-Business Suite R12</title>
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		<description>Al-Abbas Sugar Mills engaged Oracle Certified Partner Sapphire Consulting Services to implement a financial, inventory, procurement, and order management system based on Oracle E-Business Suite R12 and completed month-end reports in five days...</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?</title>
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		<description>At the moment the public sector is spending &#163;16bn a year on IT procurement and that is going to about eight different companies, clearly there are some issues there,&#34; he said. In February the CIO Council published a policy designed to stimulate the...</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Xerox snaps up ACS in $6.4bn deal</title>
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		<description>The savings are related to back office, procurement and the costs related to running a public company. Xerox said Monday it will buy Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) in a cash and stock deal valued at $6.4bn.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>IT chiefs ignoring datacentre energy use</title>
		<link>http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39535797,00.htm</link>
		<description>The analyst group said its research found that although IT managers think datacentre energy management is their most important green IT issue for the next 18 months, few consider green procurement and pushing vendors to create more energy...</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>White House looks to the cloud for IT cost-cutting</title>
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		<description>Finally, the initiative will include policy planning and architecture that will be made up of centralised certifications, target architecture and security, privacy and procurement concerns. The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a long-term...</description>
		<author>editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial)</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Are your software licences up to date - and does your CFO know?</title>
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		<description>With software purchases typically made by the IT department through expenses rather than a business' standard processes, procurement processes should come under particular scrutiny from CFOs. Mark Bethell, senior manager within Deloitte's contract...</description>
		<author>editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial)</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Blackstone &#38; Cullen, Inc. Case Study: InComm</title>
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		<description>US Lumber needed a collaborative portal solution to leverage and reuse their procurement data for new and repeat customers. The pioneer in prepaid technologies and solutions, InComm began serving the telecommunications and retail distribution...</description>
		<author>editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Healthcare Providers Tackle Complex Challenges by Embracing Consumerism</title>
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		<description>Its solutions enable self-service for internal procurement from either the stores warehouse or external sources and offer a more controlled contracting and catalog process. Off late healthcare providers confront monumental challenges at nearly...</description>
		<author>editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Business Intelligence for Operational Effectiveness:Improving Insight and Visibility Into Chemical Companies' &#34;Product-Intensive&#34; Functions</title>
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		<description>Chemical companies' financial success is linked heavily to the critical areas that support the bulk of product manufacturing and ultimately take the brunt of margin scrutiny: procurement, manufacturing, and distribution.</description>
		<author>editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Business Intelligence for Industry Operational Effectiveness: Improving Insight and Visibility Into Chemical Companies' &#34;Product-Intensive&#34; Functions</title>
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		<description>Chemical companies' financial success is linked heavily to the critical areas that support the bulk of product manufacturing and ultimately take the brunt of margin scrutiny: procurement, manufacturing, and distribution.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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