Will RFP-EZ Give Small Businesses a Leg Up on Federal Procurement?
The Obama administration recently announced a new procurement initiative (hat-tip Ryder Daniels). No, this is not one that promises a transformation of the GSA (replete with fewer shindigs in Vegas), however useful it would be to drop a spend-focused metaphorical savings bomb in the middle of that mess. No, this one is far simpler. And [...]
Europe Sets Course for Cloud
There’s a perception that cloud computing has become a “mature” technology, a perception shared by few but anticipated by most everyone else with the exception of those trying to preserve their self-interests. I don’t blame them – each person inherently protects self-interests. They’re wrong though. Cloud is not mature. It…
News Analysis: Infor Launches New Era With Infor 10
After 11 months of behind the scenes work, CEO Charles Phillips and the Infor management team unveiled the launch of Infor 10 in New York City on September 13, 2011, to customers, industry analysts, media, and investment analysts. The new Infor has kept busy with key management team hires, the $1.84 B acquisition of Lawson, [...]
News Analysis: Deltek Pays $60M For INPUT, Solidifies GovCon Ecosystem
Deltek Expands Core Vertical While Diversifying Profit Streams Project Based Solutions (PBS) vendor Deltek plans to close its $60 million acquisition of INPUT, a government contracting market research and business development firm, on October 1st, 2010. The transaction will add $26.2M in annual revenue, 160 employees, and a rich government contracting ecosystem. Analysis of the [...]
Diverse Mediocrity? Supplier Diversity Programs Fail to Deliver, Showing Disappointing Homogeneity
Even though I’ve been won over to supplier diversity as a tool to promote private sector revenue growth and customer intimacy — don’t get me started on the absurdity and wastefulness of supplier diversity in public sector procurement — it appears as if few organizations are actually making supplier diversity programs deliver on promised returns. [...]
Friday’s Feature: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010
Latest Release Provides Existing Customers Good Reasons To Upgrade
Redmond, WA based Microsoft Corporation announced its Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 (a.k.a. GP 11) product on April 20th, 2010. Available May 1st 2010 in Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, the Middle East, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the announcement perfectly coincides [...]
When Buying and Selling in “Local Currency” Takes on a New Meaning
When we usually think of buying in local currencies, most procurement and finance minds think about denominating contracts in local currencies (e.g., RMB) rather than in the dollar or Euro. But the concept of local currency takes on an entirely diffe…
Are Extraordinary U.S. Savings Levels Coming to an End?
During the recession, we all started minding our spend — companies, nonprofits, families and individuals included (governments, of course, got a pass). Of course, if you’re a family or individual lucky enough to be gainfully employed, and you cut ba…
The Biggest Spender in the World: Your Government
Whether you’re an American or Chinese citizen — or a resident of just about any other country for that matter — chances are more than likely that your government represents far and away the largest spender within your borders. Of course, as private…
UN to Hide Procurement Fraud by Stopping the Search for it
In the private sector, it’s difficult to justify procurement fraud in any way to shareholders (sometimes its enough to land the executives who
knew about it in jail). At the UN, however, procurement fraud is an almost
venerated tradition. After…
