Brian Wanat of Aon, a broker, says that a few years ago only one in four hedge funds purchased management-liability insurance.
The group's widely watched purchasing management index fell to 47 from 47.9, a smaller drop than economists had expected, but the outlook is for further declines in the months ahead.
VES lies at the intersection of three disciplines: purchasing management, supply chain management, and performance management.
The company sells cloud-based software for financial functions — including applications for accounting, contract management, revenue management, inventory management, purchasing, vendor management, financial consolidation and reporting.
Since then, it has purchased Hendricks Management and Speakers of Sport, which are primarily baseball agencies, and Tellem & Associates, which has basketball and baseball clients.
Formed in 1916, the business was purchased by management in 1990 from RJR Nabisco.
Via SpringSource, VMware purchased data management company GemStone, and recently acquired Rabbit Technologies.
TMWRK reportedly bought back its ownership rights for $3.6 million from SFX, which purchased the management company (home to Diplo, Jack Ü, and Dillon Francis).
Its Software-as-a-Service combines multiple functionality — CRM, ERP, invoicing, purchase management, POS, time tracking and help desk — to enable companies to manage the entire sales process and to monitor key indicators in real-time.
The purchasing management association's production index rose to 39.7 from 37.9 in January.
"You can see that in the purchasing management and confidence indicators.
