Wednesday 14th May, 2014

The Department of Health (DoH) has launched the NHS eProcurement strategy to introduce e-procurement across the NHS. By using the new strategy the NHS could potentially save £3m-£5m per hospital.

NHS eProcurement strategy report sets out how e-procurement can better support the NHS procurement processes that manage transactions and pricing with suppliers.

Tuesday 13th May, 2014

Europe is set to get its first bitcoin centre this May, with the opening of the Maison du Bitcoin in Paris. Situated at the heart of the city the building with offer assistance for bitcoin companies, workshops, a bitcoin ATM and more.

La Maison du Bitcoin is the brainchild of entrepreneurs and bitcoin enthusiasts Thomas France (co-founder) and Eric Larchevêque (CEO and co-founder), who previously founded the price comparison and shopping app Prixing.

Monday 12th May, 2014    

According to an International Business Report by Grant Thornton a leading assurance, tax and advisory firm, two in five business leaders globally either currently (or plan to) outsource back office processes.

Friday 9th May, 2014

An employee working for Nicholson McLaren has been found guilty of invoice fraud at Reading Crown Court. Lee Smith admitted four counts of fraud which related to invoices being submitted for racing car parts which were never delivered, amounting to £26,000. Mr Smith set up a series of bogus emails to demand payments from Nicholson McLaren, the subsequent payments were then sent to the addresses of members of his family.

Thursday 8th May, 2014

Concur has announced a strategic alliance with IBM to jointly market Concur’s solutions to global enterprises.

Under the terms of the agreement, IBM will promote Concur's cloud-based expense management solutions to IBM Global Expense Reporting Solutions clients.