Here is a list of 5 guidelines that companies should keep in mind as they create their spend management program: Data Consolidation, Preferred Vendor Program, Legal Oversight, Company-wide Visibility and Coordination. 

Manual processes are error-prone, time-consuming and costly. Learn the top ten reasons to automate operating expense controls. 

The present need to radically cut public expenditure provides a once in a generation opportunity to transform the efficiency of the public sector. In order to achieve this, the public sector needs to radically change its current business processes to achieve greater efficiency. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we talk to Sega about how the computer game giant has turned to the cloud to prepare for the Christmas rush. Our latest buyer's guide gives best practice advice on mobile device management. And Unilever tells us how business intelligence and analytics helps to better understand customer needs. Read the issue now. 

This paper gives you an overview of how Ovum has helped penetrate the upper-midmarket. Even when the slowing growth of the market hasn't. 

Learn how this comprehensive solution could enhance not only your manufacturing productivity, but quality and cost control as well. 

This study from analyst Freeform Dynamics gives guidance on security for organisations considering Software as a service. 

Project-based business practices are now being embraced and applied to a far greater spectrum of business ranging from manufacturing to service industries. Read on to learn the trends driving this change, what it means for industrial companies, and how PBS, a new type of ERP, can allow executives to intelligently navigate these uncertain waters. 

Many companies already using the SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) application choose to also deploy the SAP supplier relationship management (SRM) application to optimize their procurement processes and strategies. Read this paper to learn more about SAP SRM. 

Organizations continue to spend upwards of 70% of their technology budgets in maintaining an existing inventory of applications. some of which are redundant and some that have exceeded their useful life, and continue to consume resources without returning value. Watch this webcast to learn more. 

This article briefly describes the procurement challenges and then jumps into advising government cloud service purchasers on the positives and negatives of security in the cloud, and how to manage their potential vendors' security risks. Read on to learn more. 

Many of today's companies have third-party costs that equal up to 70% of revenue. To remain competitive, it is essential to use procurement applications to identify and accelerate savings and contribute to the bottom line. Access this eBook to learn how to close the loop between spend analysis, sourcing, and contract management.