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 [...]
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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, [...] For a number of years now, the business community has benefitted from the impact of Business to Business (B2B) markets. Their impact on the economy is evident in several ways: Transaction costs. Three cost areas are significantly reduced through the conduct of B2B e-commerce. First is the reduction of search costs, as buyers need not go through multiple [...] A number of predictions are being made about the direction of government IT for 2011. The Obama administration is taking a look at the effectiveness of the “grand design approach.” These costly, massive IT projects aim for sweeping reinvention of agency computer systems and business processes. Unfortunately, these large-scale projects are frequently plagued by cost overruns and schedule [...] Continuing our discussion of Service Oriented Architecture, let’s look at some of the chief benefits. SOA is designed to eliminate dependencies on a particular implementation technology. When services are accessed through a common interface, the underlying implementation can change without changing the systems that build upon them. The implementation of the service can change for many reasons, [...] |
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