 | The City of Naperville, IL has deployed Spikes Cavell's spotlightonspend hosted in the Windows Azure Cloud as part of its drive to deliver improved transparency and enhance citizen engagement.
(Added: Wed, Jun, 19 2013) |
 | In this step, we'll show you how monitoring your progress over time makes it possible to highlight positive achievements in the procurement function in relation to delivering savings, but also in terms of monitoring spend with specific groups of vendors.
(Added: Fri, Jun, 7 2013) |
 | As featured on the American City & County website, Naperville saves $120,000 using Spikes Cavell Observatory.
(Added: Thu, Jun, 6 2013) |
 | Like the household example above, spend analysis requires different skill-sets, a balance of priorities, and the right resources, either internal or external, to complete three distinct steps
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 | The next stage is to prepare for the contracting process by having a thorough understanding of the spend in a specific category, which stakeholders to engage with and whether there is the opportunity to piggy-back on other contracts.
(Added: Tue, May, 28 2013) |
 | Adding to Spikes Cavell’s growing number of K-12 school district customers across the country, Virginia Beach City Public Schools contracted with Spikes Cavell to transform their expenditure data and produce the annual mandatory Diversity Spend Report.
(Added: Mon, Apr, 29 2013) |
 | Allocating spend consistently into meaningful 'buckets' makes the data easier to navigate, interpret and understand. We thought you might like to see an example of the sort of information most commonly used to support a Category Management approach.
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 | The second step is arguably even more important - getting started and actually using the new clear view of expenditure to identify and pursue opportunities for savings and efficiencies.
(Added: Thu, Apr, 11 2013) |
 | To know where money can be saved, you need to know where it’s spent. But, the reality for the majority of public and education sector procurement teams is that finding the answer to questions is much more difficult than it ought to be.
(Added: Thu, Mar, 21 2013) |
 | Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS) have deployed spotlightonspend to enable citizens in the County and beyond to better understand where AACPS spends taxpayers’ money on the goods and services it needs to run schools in the County.
(Added: Mon, Mar, 18 2013) |
 | The City of Naperville, IL has deployed Spikes Cavell’s spotlightonspend as part of its drive to deliver improved transparency and enhance citizen engagement.
(Added: Wed, Jan, 23 2013) |
 | Baltimore County Public Schools have deployed spotlightonspend to enable citizens in the County and beyond to better understand where Baltimore County Public Schools spends taxpayers’ money on the goods and services it needs to run schools in the County.
(Added: Tue, Jan, 15 2013) |
 | Bill Ward, MBA, CPPO, Purchasing Manager at City of Lee's Summit, MO presented this webinar on raising your procurement department's image through spend analysis.
(Added: Wed, Dec, 12 2012) |
 | Public sector organizations really do buy many of the same goods and services, even between sectors as diverse in their missions as local government and higher education. But assertions like this should be backed up with hard numbers.
(Added: Tue, Dec, 11 2012) |
 | Once you have taken the time to complete a full spend analysis exercise that brings together your Accounts Payable, PCard and Purchase Order data, the next step is to start looking at what you can do with all that information.
(Added: Tue, Dec, 4 2012) |
 | One of our customers, Mike Bevis from City of Naperville, IL, writes about the challenges of spend management which can be daunting to individual organizations.
(Added: Fri, Nov, 16 2012) |
 | Exporting data from an accounts payable system expecting it to deliver immediate, meaningful, business intelligence is quite unrealistic. Spend Analysis is what you do to your data to make it fit for purpose and useful for Spend Management.
(Added: Thu, Nov, 1 2012) |
 | Early adopters of the Spikes Cavell Observatory under the contract include: University of Colorado, CO; University of Idaho, ID; the University System of New Hampshire, NH and Berkley College, NY
(Added: Mon, Oct, 29 2012) |
| Baltimore County Public Schools, successfully deploys the Observatory: massive ROI on annually investment in spend and contract visibility. Invaluable aid to identifying and evaluating opportunities for collaboration with other k-12 school districts.
(Added: Thu, Aug, 9 2012) |
 | Educational program to include spend analysis case study by New York City Department of Administrative Services and Mississippi State University.
(Added: Thu, Aug, 9 2012) |