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The Big Picture

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Solutions for Public and Private eMarketplaces “Major multinational companies will buy software solutions,” says James Hatcher, vice president of business development for ECNet. “But when you go to the supplier base, only 10 percent of them will buy software. So

As Safe as Fort Knox

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Ruesch specializes in business-to-business cross-border payments, basically supplying various payment instruments and foreign currencies for companies that need to pay their bills in various countries around the world.

Nobody Does It Better

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Quickly growing. Unlimited potential. Unpredictable. Each of these words conveys the business environment in Russia today. Global executives eye developments in the world's largest country and speculate on each aspect of the emerging business scene.

How to Get Ready for HIPAA

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

From the moment of his 1999 signature approving two-thirds of the proposed HIPAA regulations, President Clinton tossed the healthcare industry a hot potato. So now the industry is forced to start changing the way it was doing business.

Business Risk

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

The biggest risks for businesses are they take too long to change, they do the wrong thing or they don't do their job well, says Michel Janssen, chief operating officer of the Outsourcing Center. Outsourcing can mitigate much of that

Defusing Capital Risk

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Last month Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, was giving a presentation to stock analysts when the ground shook. No, it wasn't the power of the newest version of Microsoft Office he was displaying. At that moment Seattle, Washington was

Capital Risk

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Outsourcing means never having to buy the stuff yourself. Or even know what to buy.\x0d\x0aOne of the major benefits of outsourcing is the vendor makes sizable capital investment in assets that buyers need but do not want to purchase. Making

The Current Challenges of eProcurement

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

In the current real world of eProcurement, linking the computer systems of buyer and suppliers is just one of the challenges facing eProcurement. Getting employees to use the procurement tools already in place is another. And reengineering the process is

Road Warriors

Chris Pryer, Business Writer

Few assets owned and maintained by the government illicit as much passion from taxpayers as the condition of paved roads. But even as the need for more and wider thoroughfares goes largely ignored due to shrinking budgets and changing political

Achieving High Performance

Chris Pryer, Business Writer

Today roads, and the maintenance they require, are as important as the vehicles that traverse them. And if you've paid any attention to today's news -- or your daily commute to work -- you are probably aware that roads, like

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