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Jaggaer and JP Morgan Partner to Increase Purchasing Oversight for Education, Public Sector and Commercial Industries
Jul 18, 2019
Spend management software provider Jaggaer (SaaS-based S2P, eProcurement solutions with advanced Spend Analytics, Sourcing, Supplier Management, Contract Lifecycle Management, Savings Tracking, and intelligent workflow capabilities all on a single platform), which is widely used in the public...
Hungarian Payment Deadlines Among Strictest in the EU
Jul 18, 2019
“Hungarian firms tend to determine increasingly strict deadlines, leading to many clients asking for delays, which may become a challenge for companies in case of an economic downturn, according to a report by debt management firm Intrum,” reports The Budapest Business Journal. In a recent...
Startups Using Emerging Tech to Solve Real Problems
Jul 16, 2019
Livemint references a Digital Dossier identification of startups making use of emerging technologies to address problems in traditional fields. While applications are primarily geared toward the private sector, this does not preclude government applications from the near future.
Facilio, based in...
Improving End-to-End Public Service Delivery
Jul 15, 2019
The government and its citizens serve to gain a lot from digitizing and consolidating citizen information––but not without its share of risks as well. Ideally, a citizen could visit a single one-stop-shop for all their government needs; a single, secure website where they can pay their taxes,...
What Boris Johnson Is Missing When He Talks About Procurement
Jul 11, 2019
Boris Johnson – the UK PM front runner – said of Procurement that: “… he wanted to change public procurement rules which could see UK companies favoured when bidding for billions of pounds worth of Government work.” The very knowledgeable Pedro Telles, Senior Lecturer in Law at Swansea...
Green Public Procurement Latest News – Child Labour, Biodegradable Plastics and More
Jul 11, 2019
The European Commission has this week published its latest newsletter containing news on green public procurement (GPP). It includes items on the Big Buyers Initiative: public authorities joining forces for strategic procurement; a new tool to calculate the full Life-Cycle Costs (LCC) of Computers...
Farmers Call for Food Trading System Complete Treasury Review
Jul 11, 2019
At a UK Future Farmers seminar recently, the NFU president said: “There has got to be a complete review of the competition framework. It has to be done by the Treasury, it has to be serious and it has to be done in 12 months.” Britain’s food trading system is “unique” and...
Growing Toolkit of AI Has Potential to Enhance Government
Jul 8, 2019
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is growing increasingly diverse in its slew potential uses to improve government operations. For optimized use, AI necessitates as large volume of data––something the U.S. government possesses. Deloitte confirms the federal government plans to reach 500...
Global Virtual Reality Market to Surpass $26B by 2022
Jul 8, 2019
Zion Market Research released a virtual reality (VR) industry research report. The report goes into statistical and overall analysis to provide a holistic projection of the VR hardware and software industry through 2022. Market Research News reports on Zion’s findings, including a list of key...
UK Government Must Report on Modern Slavery Prevention in Its Supply Chains
Jul 4, 2019
Under the Modern Slavery Act, companies with a turnover of £36 million must publish statements about what they are doing to prevent modern slavery in their supply chains. Last December, at the G20 summit in Argentina, the UK Prime Minister revealed her plans to apply this to the public...
AR in Military: How This Emerging Tech Can Enhance Warfare and Training
Jul 3, 2019
The challenges the U.S. military faces become increasingly complex as technology advances. The prevalence of augmented reality (AR) in the consumer market comes on the tail-end of one of its first implementations in a heads up display for fighter jets. The bleeding-edge depictions of far more...
Top Publicly Traded Companies at the Forefront of AI Innovation
Jul 3, 2019
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad umbrella catchall for a slew of technological advances, including but not limited to machine learning and automation. Builtin estimates that AI could add as much as $15.7 trillion to the global GDP by the year 2030. Several publicly traded companies...