• 5G – The Next Phase of Mobile Telecommunications from Ericsson & Cisco???

    November 12th, 2015 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , ,
    5G – The Next Phase of Mobile Telecommunications from Ericsson & Cisco???

    Techwire carries interesting article from Pete Carey, San Jose MercuryNews: Cisco Systems and Swedish telecom giant Ericsson announced a sweeping global partnership Monday that’s a few steps short of a merger but which should shake up the networking industry with a powerful new combination. The two […]

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    CalCloud Vendor Forum a Big Hit, But More Losers than Winners Among Initial High Five Procurement Categories; Plus Vendor Scorecard Coming, Veto or Not…

    September 22nd, 2015 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , ,
    CalCloud Vendor Forum a Big Hit, But More Losers than Winners Among Initial High Five Procurement Categories; Plus Vendor Scorecard Coming, Veto or Not…

    The CalCloud Vendor Forum attracted an overflow crowd of 300+ attendees Monday at the lavish State Lottery’s auditorium. Billed ostensibly as the opportunity to provide an update on the State’s evolving cloud strategy, it was also clearly an attempt to assuage the angst of the […]

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    Well, the Controller can use his own Payroll Project as Case Study in IT Procurement Failure

    February 12th, 2013 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , ,
    Well, the Controller can use his own Payroll Project as Case Study in IT Procurement Failure

    This may be closing the barn door after the horse has run away California Controller Kills SAP Contract for Statewide Payroll, Jeopardizing $375 million Project, Frightening Spokesman but as Techwire reports: State Controller Announces Task Force on Reengineering IT Procurement for Success State Controller John […]

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    IBM’s awarded contract for 21st Century project deployment and training; bittersweet after disqualification of their FI$CAL Bid

    March 16th, 2012 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
    IBM’s awarded contract for 21st Century project deployment and training; bittersweet after disqualification of their FI$CAL Bid

    Techwire reports on IBM’s award of a $12 million contract for 21st Century Payroll Project deployment and training for the new SAP based system. Not sure if it will make up for IBM’s failure to even have their FI$CAL final bid opened. Apparently, just CGI […]

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