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A Good Sign: Ariba’s Earnings Suggest That Deals are Getting Done (Part 1)
A couple weeks back, I wrote a post that offered up three things to expect from Ariba’s earnings announcement later in the month. Yesterday, Ariba announced earnings in a report that proved once and...
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Friday Rant: Spend Jihadists vs. Non Believers
Earlier this week, I met a number of practitioners deeply involved in spend analysis as the global Zycus Experience Tour kicked off its US leg in New York (I’m speaking at the Chicago event today and...
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An Emptoris Summer Update: Customer Intimacy, Growth and Partnering Driving...
I recently caught up with Emptoris for a spring/summer briefing and update. From the discussion, I’m impressed by the level of transformation in the organization since Patrick Quirk, Emptoris’ CEO,...
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New Compass Research: Comparing SAP / Oracle Spend Visibility, Sourcing and...
I’m excited to announce the latest Spend Matters 2010 Compass Series: Getting the Most From ERP Procurement and Spend Management Applications. This Series, our third Compass Research volume in 2010,...
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Basware and Lavante: Where Invoicing, Supplier Management and Audit Recovery...
In the first post highlighting the recently announced partnership between Basware and Lavante, I provided a bit of context behind the deal, given both vendors’ histories and target markets. In today’s...
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Zycus — A Summer Update (Part 1)
This spring, I had the chance to meet dozens of Zycus customers and prospects as their “Experience” tour criss-crossed the country. These discussions with both existing and potential customers...
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SAP and Bristlecone Partner on a Fixed-Price Spend Performance Management...
When most people think about installed SAP software, they nearly always jump to the uncertainty of the total cost associated with a given deployment, customization and roll-out (not to mention ongoing...
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Rosslyn: Healthy Growth and Exploiting a Growing Niche in DIY Spend...
Rosslyn Analytics, like Spend Radar and Vendormate, two other young, upstart providers in the spend analysis and supplier management areas, has been going through a very strong period of growth in the...
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Spend Matters Compass: Supply Risk Management — Understanding the Technology...
The world of supply risk management is continuing to get more and more attention these days. The attention is not exactly new, but it appears that the intent behind it is changing. It seemed that...
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Rearden and Ketera — Acquisition Implications for Ketera Customers
While Rearden’s acquisition of Ketera has many implications for the broader P2P and Spend Management market — ranging from an evolving competitive landscape with greater choice of stable vendors for...
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Friday Rant: How Will Rearden Cut Its New Ketera Cards?
Last week, Spend Matters covered Rearden Commerce’s Acquisition of Ketera in three posts: Rearden Commerce Acquires Ketera, Creating a New, Broad Spend Management Offering With Ketera, Will Rearden...
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SAP Ventures Backs Lavante: Despite Hiccups, the Supplier Management Gets a...
Spend Matters has spent quite a bit of time covering vendor happenings in the supplier information management (SIM) and related markets of late. Some providers in the sector, such as Aravo and...
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Ten Tips For Pursuing Complex Categories as a Core Cost Reduction Strategy
Earlier this week, I proffered up the prediction that 2011 will be the year when procurement organizations refocus their efforts on complex categories as a core strategy. These categories may include...
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New Compass Research: The Future of Spend Visibility and Analytics — Three...
In my first real job out of graduate school, I spent much of my day analyzing structured and unstructured information to come up with potential scenarios for companies, industries and markets. The...
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Sievo: The Missing Finance/Sourcing Link? Implementing/Measuring Savings to...
If you couldn’t tell from the first post in this series, Sievo enables savings tracking and measurement across direct materials categories by taking a highly category specific and granular approach...
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Spend Analysis Learnings From Oil and Gas — No Surprises, Some Good Lessons
A few years back, I spoke at an OFS Portal event about the evolution of the procurement function. OFS Portal is a type of procurement user group/community within the oil and gas sector that also...
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Tips to Support Supply Chain Risk Management Platform Success + Building the...
Image credit: Pmtips.net Over the past couple of weeks, you’ve most likely noticed a number of posts from my presentation with Sherry Gordon at ISM, focusing on the risk track. In it, we shared what...
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What is Supply Chain Risk Management, Exactly? Stepping Back to Address the...
As usual, Paul Teague recently penned an insightful column on his weekly blog Procurement Leaders, this time covering supplier/supply chain risk management. In it, he tosses out what might seem like a...
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Spend Analysis: The Definitive Book on Next Level Performance
Even though Michael Lamoureux (Sourcing Innovation) and I love to quibble (and as some folks know, escalate our rhetoric from time to time) I have to lavish unrestricted praise on a new book he just...
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SAP and Ariba: How Much Has the Business Case for Acquisition Changed Over...
The Spend Matters team is furiously writing and research stories on the SAP and Ariba transaction for publication tomorrow and later in the week (you can read our initial coverage here, here and...
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