John Ruffolo joins OMERS to manage new Venture Capital arm
Some great news for Ontario, and the national startup community, today. We are hearing from multiple sources that John Ruffolo will be joining OMERS as Senior Vice President of Knowledge Investing. He will start in the position on January 3rd 2011. This position, which is focused on managing direct Venture Capital investments, has been the [...]
A healthcare BPO summit… with Sumit
Healthcare has been on everyone’s minds in the US, in the wake of the acrimonious legislative fight and with the recent elections. And when any industry gets the squeeze, us sourcing-folk immediately think “hmmm, will they now do some outsourcing…
No, energy is not too cheap!
Is energy too cheap to motivate consumers to change their habits and use less?
GoodData Embeds Self-Serve Analytics
There’s more and more data being produced and made available in the world today from a variety of sources, some new, some old. That drives demand for analytics capabilities so that people can derive some useful, actionable meaning from all…
EMC Jumps Into ADBMS Appliance Game
The Data Computing Appliance, first deliverable from EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, was announced last month, only 75 days after the acquisition closed, and it doesn’t lack for ambition. Pat Gelsinger, EMC CEO, pointed to the high level opportunity: unlocking the “hidden value” of enormous and growing data assets every company is increasingly holding, and often [...]
Internal Email on Why a Software Company Migrates Away from MySQL
Twitter is abuzz this morning with MySQL news: What these messages refer to is that Oracle dropped InnoDB from the free Classic Edition, it is now only available starting with the $2,000 Standard Edition. A few days ago we heard support prices were increased – none of this should come as a surprise, the writing [...]
Forget SaaS vs On-Prem, Here are 8 Application Styles to Consider
The EI discussion about Microsoft’s poor handling of Silverlight brought out the different viewpoints swinging. The “RIA was never a good idea” camp was in full force as was the “this confirms everything about HTML5″ and the “Flash is on the same train as Silverlight” camps. I don’t see these developments nor the evolution of [...]
Will Supply Risk Threaten the Safety of Tomorrow’s Drug Supply?
Even though this article only highlights the findings from a recent PWC and Axendia study looking at the future of the pharmaceutical supply chain, it echoes a number of the things I’ve heard from industry procurement and operatio…
RightNow spurns Oracle for NetSuite
Oracle was the loser when SaaS stalwart RightNow decided to move its financials to NetSuite OneWorld. Oracle lost the deal, says RightNow’s CEO, because it couldn’t be trusted on pricing…
Enhancing SAP and Oracle with Supplier Onboarding, Catalog Management/MDM and Invoicing
Spend Matters is thrilled to announce our most recent Compass Research brief, Making ERP Procurement Technology Work — Essential Third-Party Technologies, Solutions and Deployment Models to Accelerate Returns, part of our third C…
