M&A in the Cloud – Plex Online now part of Francisco Partners
Plex Online, a poster-child for cloud ERP, has been sold to Francisco Partners. What does this mean for customers, competitors and others?
Spend Matters PRO — Advancing Procurement Publishing Distinction with Tales From the Launch Pad
Roughly three weeks ago, we quietly launched Spend Matters PRO in beta. Frankly, we saw a large hole in where we believe research in the procurement (and related areas) needs to be going. To us, Spend Matters PRO contains the frequent,…
HP Discover: Many Wows and Many Whys
On the flight over to the HP Discover event this week, I read Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine and he describes how 3M with over 50,000 products uses “conceptual blending”. 3M “regularly rotates its engineers, moving them from division to divis…
The Trouble With Powerpoint
A couple of weeks ago, I was walking someone through a Powerpoint deck on the phone. The discussion was going well. But every now and then she would skip ahead. I’d be on slide 12 expounding some gory detail of our actions in Q1 and she would say “I have a comment to make about [...]
