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CapEx versus OpEx: What’s the Best Way to Fund Your Software Purchase?

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Software Purchase CapEx vs. OpEx

The sheer number of EHSQ software solutions in the market can make the software buying journey very complex. In addition, getting buy-in from internal stakeholders can be equally as challenging. With the introduction of cloud-based or software as a service (SaaS) options, where the licensing component is considered an operational expense, comes an additional consideration: whether to view the expense as a capital expenditure (CapEx) or an operating expenditure (OpEx).

Purchasing EHSQ software–and this is true of most large procurement projects– requires a lot of research and preliminary work to ensure that you are making the best long-term decision. Not only can the process be long and arduous, there are also many factors to consider and many scenarios to examine. In fact, when it comes to deciding which software solutions to select, technology and technological capability are merely one aspect of the final decision. As such, one of the most important … Read more...

Delivering Business Value by Speeding Up the Software Solution Selection Journey

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In the past, when organizations would consider making large infrastructural or software investments, the process involved an extensive research process followed by continuous back and forth between the parties who were proposing the investment and the decision-makers. In fact, the buying process could take anywhere from months to years.

But those were different times.

With the pace of business today and the various business models in market, decisions can be made in a fraction of the time.


The Evolution of the Software Procurement Process in the B2B Space


Due to the material advancements in software in the past decade or so, there have been key changes to the “software buying experience” in the corporate world. They can be summarized as follows:

  • The introduction of the SaaS (software-as-a-service) model now allows potential buyers to experience free trials, which lessens the guesswork and risk of the final decision.
  • The accelerated
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GDPR Consent: Legally Managing Data about EU Citizens

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If you collect data in the European Union, you’re well aware of GDPR and potential for steep fines if you are not compliant. Find out which consent rules are key.

It’s been well over a year since the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. Proposed in 2012, the regulations were approved in 2016 to provide consistency between data privacy and protection regulations across EU member nations.

The cornerstone of GDPR is consent: information about a person belongs to that person. If your organization is collecting data thatin any way relates to a citizen of the EU, that person should be informed about how you plan to use that information and kept informed as your organization’s data management strategy evolves. It doesn’t matter where the individual is located — universities who have even one student who is a citizen of the EU must also comply.… Read more...

Intelex & Workday Make you Better at Health and Safety Management

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Why is an Environment, Health & Safety and Quality (EHSQ) platform provider like Intelex exhibiting at Workday Rising? The connection may seem tenuous, but the dependency is very real. Workday is the world’s fastest growing Human Capital Management HCM solution, and for many companies it is the System of Record (SOR) for all employee data and functions.  Yet Workday offers limited EHSQ capabilities for companies working in regulated industries.  At the request of their customers, Workday approached Intelex to become a Workday Access Partner, integrate with Workday’s HCM and deliver a comprehensive EHSQ management solution. For Intelex to be an effective EHSQ solution, it requires correct and current worker and location data—bad data generates bad results.  

Together, Intelex and Workday have created the new Intelex-Workday Gateway, a flexible, easy-to-use integration to synch worker and location data into our Intelex platform. This “Workday Approved” solution is a win-win for both Workday and Intelex customers. Workday customers now have access to a full-featured EHSQ solution to become better at health and safety management, while Intelex customers get improved results across multiple applications due to correct and current worker and location data. 

The “Workday Approved” badge means that the solution is ready to go out-of-the-box. Workday’s rigorous approval process requires extensive integration testing and customer acceptance testing so that any company that purchases the solution knows it is … Read more...