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Meet the Buyer
YPO has partnered with the Yorkshire Ambulance Service and the Yorkshire and Humber Police Forces to host monthly procurement meetings with suppliers to the public sector. We have been inviting suppliers from across the UK to meet with YPO category managers and buyers to discuss contract opportunities and share ideas for innovative procurement. Since its launch, YPO has met with over 100 different organisations that supply products and services in energy, ICT, food, HR, fleet, marketing, arts and crafts, facilities management, furniture and more.
As a supplier, you can book 30-minute appointments with the relevant teams to discuss tender opportunities in our core and target markets. Most importantly, it’s a chance for you to get to know us and us to know you.
Appointments are available between 10am - 3pm and can be via Skype or telephone.
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Wednesday 18 September
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Data Centres, Maintenance Cloud Hosting and Security - 944
YPO Data Centre
This framework covers datacentre build, management, maintenance, security and hosting of data and all the solutions around these areas. The aim is to ensure your data is stored and available with the ability to store, secure and maintain the environments that it is housed in whether that be in premise, off premise or in the cloud. The 12 lots span across these services offering both the wider public sector and education the capability of achieving uptime for their data applications.
Suppliers
YPO supplies products and services to more than 30,000 customers including schools, local authorities, charities, emergency services, public sector and other businesses such as nurseries and care homes. We're 100% publicly owned, by 13 local authorities, which means the profits we make are returned to our public sector customers, delivering even better value for money.
We work with suppliers across the UK to offer the latest products and services to public sector organisations at the most competitive prices. Our vision is that every public sector organisation achieves the best possible value for money when procuring its goods and services. Our supply base is vital in helping us to achieve this, and so we are keen to develop close working relationships with suppliers of all sizes who can share and support our responsible approach.
Last bit of substantial news was 21st Oct.... must be due news soon on mergwr completion, name change an announcement of new client's??
I'm stunned...
MM this is dead ATM. Needs news..
Enterprise-technology companies are capturing this spending and recording revenue growth, said David Lantsman, a research manager at International Data Corp. who analyzes market trends for IT budgeting decisions and business development strategies.
Over the next five years, the enterprise IT market is expected to grow at roughly twice the rate of annual world-wide gross-domestic-product growth, up from less than 1½ times the rate in the early 2000s, according to IDC.
Mr. Lantsman said large tech firms have the “infrastructure and technical chops to provide, support and guarantee high availability of these digital tools world-wide.” Tech companies focused directly on the enterprise market are seeing some of the biggest revenue gains, he said.
Microsoft reported full-year revenue of $110 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30, up roughly 14% from the previous year, led by an 89% increase in revenue from Azure, its enterprise cloud-computing service. Salesforce, another enterprise IT leader, reported $10 billion in annual revenue last year, up 25% from 2017.
Craig LeClair, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc., said replacing older processes with emerging digital capabilities has become a priority for businesses within the past five years.
The future starts now and looks very bright for the CloudCoCo Group....Gla ;-)
Enterprise IT Companies Ride Spending Wave
Businesses are budgeting more for cloud computing, AI and other services, boosting tech firms that provide them
Nov. 11, 2019 6:31 pm ET
Enterprise information-technology firms are taking a bigger share of indexes of valuable companies, as businesses increase spending on cloud computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence.
The trend is also helping business-tech stalwarts including Microsoft Corp. , International Business Machines Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. maintain strong positions in such rankings, as former highfliers in other industries fall out of them, analysts say.
Many big tech companies “made smart where-to-play choices” by getting into the fast-growing enterprise IT market early, said Scott Anthony, a senior partner at Innosight, the strategy and innovation practice of Huron Consulting Group Inc. “Roughly two-thirds of growth comes from market momentum, that is, being in segments where the wind is at your back,” Mr. Anthony said.
A record 184 technology companies made it into this year’s Global 2000, an annual ranking by Forbes magazine of the world’s largest public companies, based on sales, profits, assets and market value. That is up from 130 tech firms on last year’s list.
Likewise, the pace of change in the makeup of the S&P 500 has accelerated in recent years, as more companies with strong enterprise IT services or products replace incumbents outside of the tech sector, including retailers, manufacturers and energy firms, according to data compiled by Innosight.
The IT sector currently accounts for roughly 20% of companies listed on the S&P 500, up from 15% in 2006, according to data compiled by Siblis Research Ltd. Over that period, energy-sector companies have dropped by half to roughly 6%.
Innosight estimates that the average tenure of companies on the S&P 500 will shrink to 12 years by 2027, from 24 years for companies that were on the list in 2016 and 33 years in 1964. Much of that shake-up is being driven by the rapid growth in global IT spending in recent years, it said.
Companies world-wide are expected to spend a total of $3.8 trillion on enterprise IT this year, up 3.2% from 2018, led by cloud-based software subscriptions, according to research and advisory firm Gartner Inc.
In a recent survey by KPMG LLP of about 600 chief information officers, more than half said their companies have spent at least $10 million this year on business automation projects, including robotics, artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and analytics. Roughly one third said they had earmarked at least $50 million for future projects, the survey found.