{"id":234,"date":"2014-03-05T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/?p=234"},"modified":"2014-03-05T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:01:48","slug":"pain-of-procurement-a-joyous-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Pain of procurement: A joyous update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a post that I wrote a few days ago regarding procurement issues (<a title=\"The pain of procurement.\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/?p=61\" target=\"_blank\">The pain of procurement<\/a>), I mentioned that I was waiting for an open source product to be approved. The timeframe given was 20 business days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to report that it was approved last night. It was a turnaround of about 2 1\/2 business days. That exceeds my expectations in every way.<\/p>\n<p>I just would like to see some standards and a different workflow built around the request and approval process. It seems like it would be in the best interests of everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post that I wrote a few days ago regarding procurement issues (The pain of procurement), I mentioned that I was waiting for an open source product to be approved. The timeframe given was 20 business days. I&#8217;m pleased to report that it was approved last night. It was a turnaround of about 2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/?p=234\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pain of procurement: A joyous update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":637,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pain of procurement: A joyous update - ND EdTech - EdTech Topics at Notre Dame<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/?p=234\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pain of procurement: A joyous update - ND EdTech - EdTech Topics at Notre Dame\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a post that I wrote a few days ago regarding procurement issues (The pain of procurement), I mentioned that I was waiting for an open source product to be approved. 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