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Periscope is proud to announce Roy Spence as Evolve’s keynote speaker.  Roy Spence is Co-Founder and Chairman of GSD&M, a national and leading marketing communications and advertising company. He is also Co-Founder and CEO of The Purpose Institute, a consulting firm whose purpose is to help people and organizations discover and live their purpose.

Roy co-authored the Wall Street Journal bestselling book, It’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business is Driven by Purpose.  His purpose driven approach is inspiring and will transform the world of public procurement.

Under Roy’s leadership, his agency has helped grow some of the world’s most successful brands like “Don’t Mess with Texas”, Southwest Airlines, Wal-Mart, DreamWorks, the PGA TOUR, BMW, the U.S. Air Force, LLBean and the Clinton Global Initiative. Roy has been a trusted advisor to legendary leaders including Sam Walton and Southwest Airlines founder, Herb Kelleher. His council has also been sought by U.S. presidents and leaders in the State Department and Department of Defense.

Roy has been named Ad Man of the Year and Idea Man of the Century.

And finally, Roy’s passion is entrepreneurship. He deeply believes that entrepreneurship is the Miracle of America. His mantra is “Don’t Do Mild” in work or life; follow your dreams, follow your passion and follow your purpose.

For more information about The Power of Purpose click here or visit www.thepurposeinstitute.com.

Register for Evolve at evolve.periscopeholdings.com.

Dare to Evolve – Registration is now open for Evolve 2012!

Come learn how with a purpose driven approach you can take your ordinary procurement processes and transition into strategic practices that eradicate waste and bring value to every dollar spent. 

Evolve will cover industry best practices and include training from respected procurement industry thought leaders.  The conference offers opportunities to network and problem solve with peers and partners.  Purchasing professionals nationwide will collaborate on procurement obstacles and successes, discuss cutting edge trends, and explore the future of procurement.

Become a leader in public sector procurement and be a force behind the change to make a difference in government spending.  Come Evolve.

The conference will take place in Austin, TX from April 10-11^that the Historic Driskill Hotel.  Visit evolve.periscopeholdings.com to register and for more information. 

Make sure you register before February 20^th for the early bird rate.  Final agenda and keynote speaker coming soon!

Periscope now has the 2012 updates available for the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) crosswalk. License it today. Contact dhail@nigp.com for more information.

Spend Matters, a publication dedicated to gaining insight into Spend Management, recognizes Periscope Holdings in their Yearly Round-up: Part 4 Post

“This last quarter began with Gartner’s eProcurement report, which rated 32 P2P technology firms against a set of 11 criteria. The report showed strong performances from the likes of Coupa and Periscope Holdings, who shared the highest aggregate score between them…”  Read article

The City of New Orleans saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by rolling out BuySpeed’s Contract Management.  Previously, New Orleans used a homegrown Electronic Contract Routing System that failed to meet the City’s needs.  Rather than spending a fortune to recreate the wheel, the City’s Service and Innovation Team realized functionality within their eProcurement system BuySpeed that could solve their problems at a fraction of the cost.

Andy Kopplin, New Orleans’ Chief Administrative Officer, addressed City Council during a 2012 budget presentation on October 17^th and said, “We spent well over $1 million in the prior administration building a customized software program to track contracts.  Unfortunately, when we performed our contracting process, the software didn’t serve us well in terms of managing that new process.  We looked at rewriting that program, and it was going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Instead, folks from the innovations team looked at an existing program we used called BuySpeed.  It turns out it has a contract tracking process with it.  And for $63,000 we started using an existing component of BuySpeed that we’ve had for the last ten years that we’ve not implemented to track contracts.  So that’s just one example of the kind of savings this team has produced for us.”

Start saving your agency money by implementing BuySpeed eProcurement or by expanding your current BuySpeed functionality.