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The deal is centred on the operation of the Gila River Power Station, one of the largest independent power plants in the US.

Located near Phoenix, Arizona the station has eight GE Frame 7FA gas turbines, eight heat recovery steam generators and is ca…

The increase in spending will represent a 24.5% increase from 2012, with revenue forecast to reach $462.3m in 2013, according to Gartner. The Middle Eastern and Northern African public cloud services market is forecast by the research group …

New research from iPass has revealed that global companies pay on average more than £60 per month per device as part of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) deployments.

Russell Lux, commercial director at Teliqo, a provider of cloud-based telephony se…

In order to combat the sluggish global economy that has damaged sales for many providers of industrial equipment, ABB has focused on the bottom line.

“In the short term, there are still a lot of questions around the pace of growth in Europe and the U…

The new Econsultancy/Responsys Marketing Budgets 2013 Report, reveals that in contrast, just 3% of firms plan to decrease the amount spent on digital technology over the same period.

However, the figure of 71% of companies that will boost spending on…

Procurement Leaders asked the Procurement Intentions Panel of cross-industry CPOs, whether in response to current European political risk they were engaging in additional risk review activities of their European supplier contracts.

In response, 42% s…

Pike Research notes that, currently, such appliances, which use an intelligent power management strategy to optimise the load on the power distribution grid, are limited in terms of availability and types of products, but they will start to repre…

Just-in-time sourcing has been a strategy used by many companies over time to keep on-site inventory levels to a minimum, reducing the cost of holding stock, but this put businesses at risk when a supply chain shock hit such as a storm or strike at ke…

Buyers of paper need to examine recycled paper options to understand whether they have the right trade-off of cost to CSR qualities. Interviews with Procurement Leaders’ category expert network have showed that switching to recycled paper initia…

The value of outsourcing and consultancy services provided by India-based companies to foreign countries is set to rise by 12-14% in the financial year starting 1 April, according to the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nassco…