Keith McLeod, e-procurement programme director at Diageo, said Ariba was chosen because it offered a faster deployment than rival, Commerce One. Ebusiness procurement specialist, Ariba, has won a multimillion pound contract with food and drink...
Christa Degnan, research analyst with the Aberdeen Group, said in a statement: "Although executives and investors have soured on the B2B technologies, research demonstrates e-procurement delivers rapid and quantifiable results.
O2 is claiming to have saved around £4.5m in procurement costs since spring this year after implementing sourcing software from Ariba. Paul Greenshaw, major project manager for procurement at O2, said: "The software takes [procurement] processes...
Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights Cisco, Dell, EDS, EMC, Fuji Xerox...
Changes are afoot in the way European financial services companies outsource horizontal business processes, such as human resources, finance, accounting and procurement, new research shows. Financial services firms are becoming more motivated to...
Alcatel, Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Lucent and Siemens all already made the procurement cut. BT recently announced a venture to resell its knowledge of next-generation networks to rival telcos, where some industry watchers believe its...