(Request For Proposal) A document that invites a vendor to submit a bid for hardware, software and/or services. It may provide a general or very detailed specification of the system.
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- eBay names Sun veteran head of data center strategy
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- Blog posts 2009-09-08
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- Businesses need to share important or sensitive documents on a daily basis, whether it's quotes or RFP responses sent to customers, intellectual property or specs shared with contractors, or financial information shared in the context of an M&A transaction (e.g. Deal Room). But once recipients receive the documents, you lose...
- White papers 2009-09-02
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- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- 10 reasons why e-readers make sense in the enterprise
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- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- CTO: Time for govt innovation has arrived
- U.S. chief technology office Aneesh Chopra says he's working hard to enable the federal government to embrace innovation, user-friendliness and best practices, but doing so means modernizing purchasing rules and procedures. Speaking at the Churchill Club in San Francisco, Chopra said: If it's this easy to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Telecommunications and Network Services: Ten Key Steps to Sourcing Strategy
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- White papers 2009-07-24
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- Blog posts 2009-07-19
- Deduplication market undergoes rapid changes
- In May, I blogged about NetApp's announced acquisition of deduplication pionneer, Data Domain. The announcement triggered an unsolicted counter-offer from EMC, followed by another counter from NetApp. But after a month of offers, counter-offers and regulatory reviews, EMC ultimately outbid NetApp with an all cash offer of $2.1 billion. I believe...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Nuclear power has political meltdowns
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- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Senate IT oversight bill: Detailed analysis
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- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- Auto Timesheet 1.1 (Windows)
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- Software downloads 2009-06-01
- From 'Payola' to 'Pay for Say': Will Metrics Aid Honesty or Abet Dishonesty in Online Conversation?
- Every medium or twist on a medium seems to spawn its own version of hiding the agenda. For decades, radio has had â€" and apparently continues to have â€" its payola problems. One way or another, music jockeys get paid off to play particular songs. ...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- London Underground stays in mobile dark ages
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- Discussion threads 2009-03-17
- The GOP.com RFP: lessons for everybody?
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- Discussion threads 2009-03-15
- Cisco makes big connection for its green cities vision
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- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Wanted: Bidders for 51 percent stake in Satyam
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- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Get Your Free Performance Management Request for Proposal (RFP) template
- For any big project, getting started can be the hardest part. You may be well-versed in the art of requesting vendor proposals, familiar with performance management vendors, and intimately knowledgeable of your project requirements. Now you need to combine all that knowledge into a document that will provide...
- Download resources 2009-03-01
- When will we learn?
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- Discussion threads 2009-01-29
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