Aberdeen Loses Another Procurement Analyst: Andrew Bartolini
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 …
Smart Grid Heavy Hitter series – Kevin Meagher, CTO EDSA
EDSA are an interesting company. They are 25 years old, they are privately held and they focus on power analytics. I had an opportunity to have EDSA’s CTO, Kevin Meagher, on the show so I jumped at it to find out more about their smart grid solutions for micro-grid integration.
Kevin and I had a great [...]
Software Insider Index™ (SII): 2009 SII Top 35 Enterprise Business Apps Vendors™
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 [...]
Risk Pools and Healthcare Reform
The fundamental challenge the health insurance, or any insurance business for that matter, faces is how to blend risk pools so that the customers who consume few services pay for those who consume many services.
In other words, my premiums will go down because healthy young people who currently get by without insurance will [...]
oDesk and the inadvertent freelancer
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.
On Open Data, Open Source, UK Libel Law and Evidence-based Sustainability
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” – John Maynard Keynes
As is often the case, someone asks for a written answer to a question, but then fails to use the material. The great thing about blogs is that they make it very easy to make sure such content isn’t [...]
Earthquakes Show Supply Chain Risk Extends Beyond Supplier Financial Viability
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…
We Are Pleased to Present… Trada!
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 [...]
Five Years of Column 2
As of today, I’ve been writing this blog for five years. My first post was on BPTrends’ 2005 BPM Suites Report, and I’m still pretty focused on BPM, although have branched out to cover a wider variety of Enterprise 2.0 and collaboration topics as well. In the beginning, it was just labeled as my business [...]
Coupa Heads for the Clouds — eProcurement, T&E and Beyond (Part 2)
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…
