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Ken Phillips
Davies Murphy Group for SciQuest
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kphillips@daviesmurphy.com
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Recent News Releases
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Hubspan Extends E-Commerce Services to SciQuest's Supplier Network
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October 7, 2008
Hubspan's on-demand integration solutions present suppliers in the SciQuest network with a fast alternative for automating e-commerce processes.
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Emptoris and SciQuest Form Strategic Alliance to Serve the Education, Government, Healthcare and Life Sciences Markets
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October 2, 2008
Companies solutions help companies drive greater cost savings and compliance from source-to-settlement.
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Procurement Professionals are Increasingly on the Leading Edge of Organizational Sustainability Efforts
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September 25, 2008
Fundamental eprocurement capabilities present organizations with opportunities to transform green ideals into real fiscal policies.
SciQuest Recently In the News
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Georgia to Launch a Statewide E-procurement System
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October 3, 2008
As part of a multimillion-dollar overhaul of purchasing operations in the state government, Georgia purchasing professionals soon will be able to buy products and services using an online shopping catalog.
Beginning in January, the state will begin a rollout to three pilot agencies. After that, officials will be expanding the online catalog to the Peach State's more than 500 purchasing professionals - representing more than 100 state agencies, 35 state universities, 33 vocational/technical schools and around $3.4 billion in annual addressable spend - who will be able to perform flexible searches, compare prices, build a shopping cart and save items as favorites, just as they would on popular Web sites such as Amazon.com.
Cary, N.C.-based e-procurement vendor SciQuest is providing the online catalog as well as some back-end services for the system, which will be integrated with PeopleSoft enterprise resourcing planning (ERP) technology across the state. Georgia's Department of Administrative Services selected SciQuest after a competitive bidding process. Read more...
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State Turns Buyers into Strategists
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August 18, 2008
The state of Georgia is rethinking how it buys things.
For decades, the state relied on people called order-takers to handle purchases. When a purchase request arrived from a state agency, the order-taker posted it for the public to read. Soon, proposals would arrive, and after opening all bids in public, the order-takers chose the bid with the lowest price.
They considered few details surrounding the initial purchase request. Read more...
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Switching to software as a service saved SciQuest
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July 30, 2008
Moving SciQuest from a public company offering an online business-to-business exchange to a private one offering software as a service saved the company, says CEO Stephen Wiehe.