By Jason Busch on March 18, 2010
When Tim Minahan left Aberdeen to head to Procuri five years ago, the average tenure of procurement analysts at the firm dropped from years to quarters — and in some cases, mere months. As some predicted at the time, Aberdeen would never be able to …
Posted in Business | Tagged Aberdeen, gartner, Industry Analysts, procurement, Spend Management, supply chain
By R "Ray" Wang on March 18, 2010
2009 Results In Major Revenue Declines For On Premise And Officially The Year Of SaaS
A review of last year’s financial performance should erase any doubts about the viability of SaaS as a deployment option and a business model. Traditional on-premise business apps vendors took the brunt of the beating earlier in the year but [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Activant Systems, agresso, Amdocs, Ariba, Aspen Tech, Blackboard, CDC Software, Cincom, Computer Associates, Concur, Deltek, Epicor, Exact Software, IBS Software, IFS, Infor, Intuit, JDA Software, Kronos, Lawson, Manhattan Associates, Microsoft Dynamics, netsuite, oracle, QAD, Quarterly Financial Tracker, R "Ray" Wang;, Red Prairie, Right Now, Sage Group, salesforce.com, sap, SAS Institute, Software Insider, Software Insider Index, Software Insider Index®, Success Factors, Sungard, Taleo, Ultimate Software, Unit 4
By Brian Sommer on March 18, 2010
oDesk’s Brian Goler called to discuss the Inadvertent Freelancer concept. The discussion covered much more than oDesk’s abilities to help the modern freelancer.
Posted in Business | Tagged Contracting, Current Affairs, Elance, Freelancer, group dynamic, India & Services, oDesk, Professional Services, Service Providers, Software developer, Software Vendors
By Brad Feld on March 18, 2010
Gist just announced that they have acquired Learn that Name and incorporated it in the Gist iPhone app.
There are a lot of fun connections here for me. For starters, as many of you know, I’m an investor in Gist. If you haven’t tried it – or haven’t played with it for a while – give [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged acquisition, gist, learn that name, startup weekend, startups, TechStars
By Jason Busch on March 18, 2010
Inside many companies, the recession has caused supply risk to move from a secondary issue to a primary concern. Despite this interest, many companies are approaching the topic from a narrow scope, considering only supplier financial viability as a r…
Posted in Business | Tagged chile, earthquake, San Francisco, Suppliers, supply chain, supply risk
By Niel Robertson on March 18, 2010
After almost 18 months, the whole team here is extremely pleased to present Trada to the world. As you learn about what Trada is doing, we hope you get as excited as we are. We fundamentally think we’ve invented, developed and continue to perfect a totally new way of doing paid search. It’s a way [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged advertising, AdWords, Boston, Entrepreneurship, Iceland, launch, Online advertising, Seth Levine, startups, Trada, Trada News
By Jason Busch on March 18, 2010
The most important functional announcement in Coupa’s latest release (you can read the first post in this series here) is a new expense reporting capability designed to provide organizations with an integrated system to help capture, in Coupa’s words…
Posted in Business | Tagged benchmarking, Contract Management, Coupa, expense management, Jason Busch, Learning / Research
By Zoli Erdos on March 17, 2010
This is what remote controlled toy cars looked like when I was a kid. Yes, the control box was connected to the car with a 3-4feet cable… not exactly the level of freedom you get with today’s wireless models.
But it was fun, nevertheless. I wonder if 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez had a toy car when [...]
Posted in Business, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big brother, hackers, hacking, remote, remote sensors, sensors, smart meters, spy cam, sxsw, utility
By Niel Robertson on March 17, 2010
While there are countless daily articles about impending threats to Google’s hegemony (many of which are partially fair), what most people overlook is that Google has an immense amount of options in which to continue to grow its core business.
But “Google’s just a one-click pony,” you say. They make 90% of their revenue from search, [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged advertising, Display Advertising, Facebook, google, Paid Search, search, Video Advertising, Web banner, YouTube
By Zoli Erdos on March 17, 2010
Need more proof that being co-CEOS is an awkward situation? Watch this SiliconAngle video between 0:20 and 0:35
Of course you can watch the whole thing… and read these reports of the press event:
Oracle Who? SAP Co-CEOs Slam Oracle – They Are The Old Way
SAP State of The Union: The CEOs Talk Oracle, SaaS [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Business ByDesign, ByD, CEO, Co-CEO, erp, Humor, oracle, SaaS, sap
