Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Print expense management

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 04:14, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Print expense management

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Unsourced essay that is a thinly-disguised advertisement for NaviSource's software. Google for "print expense management" gets only 19 hits, which is unusual even for corporate jargon. [1] Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 05:20, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Google must be different in India. In the US "print expense management" results in 298 hits and "business process outsourcing" results in 1.3 million hits. "Print expense", 37000 hits is the second largest expense for corporations. Indeed, managing this expense as an ASP is new. Expense research, February 15 2007 — Expense research (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

• Delete as WP:VSCA, WP:NEO, WP:COI. Notability not demonstrated using reliable sources. Expense research, commenting (even incorrectly by thousands of miles) on the national origin of editors is incivil. --Dhartung | Talk 06:49, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Dhartung is exactly correct per the national origin comment. The comment represents a complete lack of moral propriety for which I have nothing but contempt. I am condemned by my own words before those who selflessly strive to provide a correct and objective information depository. I humbly and honestly apologize to Mordecai and to the entire community. My poison words and inflective to avenge a perceived attack were uncalled for and is reprehensible. I have brought shame on myself and my family. I humbly apologize, I am very sorry. Please do with the article what you gentlemen feel is correct as I know you only have the best interests of the community in mind. Clearly my attempt to shed light on a new and emerging technological service has failed. While the public markets have only recently, within the last 90 days, cast their vote on print expense management with the $160 million funding of InnerWorkings, it seems clear the technological application may be too new for wikipedia standards. PEM represents a huge and growing market first identified publicly in these documents. Print Procurement: A Services Purchase Exception Aberdeen Group “print is an area ripe for optimization” article speaks to a burgeoning interest to manage print expense in a new manner utilizing technologies proven in other expense fields, notably ASP.

Report Policies Precede Procurement Automation but Technology Ensures Compliance: The Category Spend Management Report Series 2004: Advertising, Marketing and Printing Christa Degnan, Aberdeen Group "companies are seeing the need to implement standard procedures and systems to respond to the top pressure in the market today to cut costs"

This article is the first we could find citing the potential of using the Internet as a foundation to manage an expense that had previously been managed only manually by multiple cyclical site visits by technicians, salesmen and inventory control personnel. Cost Cutting Printing with less red ink. By Alex Nyberg Stuart, CFO Magazine Print expense represents “up to 3 percent of revenues at most large companies”

Mordecai, we appreciate your good work. It was late and I was stupid. I am very sorry. If there is yet time to salvage the article we would be more than happy to provide further documentation.

• Delete. As the nominator notes, a "thinly veiled advertisement" with abysmal, buzzword-laden prose and vague piffle about "solutions". The PEM ASP addresses the compelling need for a single source print expense management solution. This comprehensive solution includes managing, sourcing and distributing data generation, variable data publishing, print materials and print consumables. Oh thank God there is an application service provider (ASP) prepared to meet this "compelling need". Who could it be? Fortunately, there is an external link. . . - Smerdis of Tlön 15:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Reluctant though I am to mention Google hits : Google returns a putative 299 hits for the term "print expense management," but narrows that to 19 unique pages and (I assume) 280 duplicates. In any case, most of these 19 are scraped from the article under discussion. That aside, this article is indeed a thinly-veiled advertisement. Per the gentleman from Tlön, it should be deleted. -- Docether 20:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as spam. The text was irritating enough, but then I got to the category section and saw that the author had put it at the top of the information technology category. Don't take us for fools. Gazpacho 12:09, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.