Mobile devices are exploding onto the IT scene. They seem to be available for every possible application as we move from traditional work on a desktop computer to laptops, tablets and smart phones. As we begin to make this transition, there seems to be a lot of discussion and difference of opinion on how to develop [...]
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To the young ones among us, it may seem like search engines and the Internet have been around forever, but it really it has only been about 20 years. According to Wikipedia, the first tool for searching the Internet, created in 1990, was called “Archie”. It downloaded directory listings of all files located on public anonymous FTP [...] Financial Transaction Services (FTS) wrote an article recently about why suppliers should be concerned about Level III credit card data when they are selling to the government and how they can save on transaction processing fees by providing it. You can read the article here, but I think the important question here is why does the [...] In my last blog, I talked about how Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) created an Open Technical dictionary based on the federal catalog system. This technical ontology can be used to describe items that you make, or that you buy. The question now becomes—why do should we care. What do I get out of data [...] In 1999, the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) was founded as an international not for profit membership association with a mission to research, develop and promote better quality data for use in electronic commerce. Soon after formation, ECCMA director Peter Benson discovered that the Department of Defense had been doing data standardization work to support military [...] As with all of government, the Department of Defense is facing slimmer budgets and looking at ways to save money. Basically as Ashton Carter, Deputy Secretary, Department of Defense, put it: “To do more, without more.” In December 2010, John Young, a senior fellow at Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and a former U.S. undersecretary of defense [...] I wanted the first blog post of the year to give a little history of Partnet. We are a small business housed on the campus of the University of Utah, in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains. The University of Utah is home to one of the first Computer Science Departments and ranks among the world’s [...] Acuity (Consultants) Ltd Executive Interm Manager and ACUITY Director, Tony Colwell’s Blog post this week titled 5 Models for Procurement Organisation, discusses the differences in the definition between Procurement and Purchasing. It also outlines the different types of procurement models. There are three basic models for procurement, any others being a combination of these three: Local – [...] As is the case with commercial shoppers, government buyers can also benefit in a number of ways from shopping online. 1. Convenience and time saving From the Contracting Officer’s perspective – writing a general purpose contract one time and letting buyers make purchase orders against that contract saves a lot of time. A number of federal agencies have [...] While re-arranging my office space, I came across a book on government supply chain management. In 2004, the Honorable Jacques S. Gansler, former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, and Robert E. Luby Jr., Vice President, Supply Chain Management at IBM published a book titled: Transforming Government Supply Chain Management. In the book, [...] |
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