With the advent of cloud computing many business owners are circumventing IT to address their needs. CIO visionaries are embracing the cloud and working to align with business objectives including increased reve...
Consulting Services & SOW Projects: Manage Better, Spend Less Contract labor frequently includes consultants and Statement of Work (SOW) contracts. What’s the definition of a 100% successful project?&...
Listen in to hear how Bausch & Lomb has successfully deployed and maximized their spend analysis and visibility solution. Their success story illustrates best practices in solution deployment and change management...
Frustrated by the lengthy process to request contracts, negotiate and get signatures? Ariba Contracts on Force.com (ACF) can help speed the process so you can close more deals. Hear the real deal at Ariba ...
What will contract management look like in 10 or even five short years from now? The world’s leading contract management association, IACCM releases their newest report, The Future of Contract Management, which ...
This recent article from Treasure Today explores the options, benefits and caveats around cloud computing. One interesting note was from a study conducted by the Carbon Disclosure Project in London in November 2011,...
Sales contracting at many companies can't keep up with today's business commerce. 40% of sales people see their organization's contracting as a disadvantage. Here's a quick view of the problems with this antiqua...
IDC and Gartner have both recently posted IT predictions for 2012 and beyond. Among the interesting forecasts for Cloud: “[In 2012,] 80% of new commercial enterprise apps will be deployed on cloud platform...
I was reading a post on linkedin where CIO's were complaining about how the business and salespeople go around them. And Burger King came to mind (OK I was also hungry at the time) so I responded to the IT profe...
Interesting Whitepaper by The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) which is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing. www. clou...
Health insurance and healthcare organizations have a tremendous obligation under the Stark laws regarding physician and provider agreements, in particular compensation. Violation consequences can be quite severe inc...
With Cloud computing personal data privacy has become an even more important risk mitigation issue. So you might be wondering how Ariba handles personal information? There is a difference between "personal informati...
OK let's get down to basics. There are lots of questions about what is a cloud? Is it just something over the internet? What is IaaS, PaaS and SaaS? Introducing Ariba Cloudcasts, a series of very sho...
Jim Shepherd, VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, has recently written several newsletter articles around Multienterprise Commerce which came out of an article addressing What's next for ERP? Multienterprise co...
A recent ComputerWeekly.com article states that according to a study by Oxford University's Said Business School, major IT projects are 20 times more likely to fail than other business initiatives because they base th...
Bob Melk Sr. VP and Group Publisher of CIO Magazine reviews the recent MarketPulse study that researches CIO perceptions and experiences with Cloud applications. Additionally Lexmark International and Fastenal c...
We are pleased to announce that the deployment of Ariba On-Demand Release 11s2 is planned for September 3, 2011*. The planned features for Release 11s2 are focused on the following ...
