By R "Ray" Wang on March 2, 2010
Single Instance ERP Harder And Harder To Justify
The holy grail of an ERP implementation used to be the single instance deployment. However, market forces, a move to adopt new disruptive technologies, slow pace of innovation from incumbent vendors, and high maintenance fees have changed many organization’s perspectives. Add a slew of rapidly changing business requirements [...]
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By Jason Busch on December 28, 2009
In the first of this two-part series on the new enterprise spend analysis product from Rosslyn Analytics, I tackled some of its spend visibility basics, such as how does the solution handle data, acquisition/management, enrichment, and basic spend qu…
Posted in Software | Tagged analytics, innovation, Invoicing and EIPP, Rosslyn Analytics, Spend Management, Visibility
By Jason Busch on December 23, 2009
One of the questions asked by some of Spend Radar’s channel partners (and customers ) when first hearing of the tool is simple: does the world really need another spend-classification and -analysis product? Aren’t there enough already? The answer to this is not as simple as it might seem.
Posted in Software | Tagged analytics, Category Management, innovation, procurement, taxonomy
By Jason Busch on December 22, 2009
While I plan, over the holiday break, to find as many ways as possible to ignore
numbers, charts, graphics, and useful and creative
quantitative displays of visual information in general, there was a time earlier in the month when, although ove…
Posted in Software | Tagged analytics, Category Management, innovation, Rosslyn Analytics, spend analysis
By Jason Busch on December 21, 2009
A few weeks back, over the best Korean fried chicken in Chicago, if not the world, I
had the chance to catch up with Brian Daniels and Rod True of Spend Radar. In full disclosure,
Spend Radar is not only a sponsor of Spend Matters, but Brian is…
Posted in Software | Tagged analytics, Category Management, innovation, SaaS, Spend Management, spend radar
By Zoli Erdos on December 9, 2009
Cool video by SAP, promoting the concept of in-memory computing.
If only their UI was as cute as their videos
(Cross-posted @ CloudAve)
Posted in Software | Tagged analytics, Business Analytics, enterprise, in-memory computing, sap, sapsummit, software as a service, Video
By Jason Busch on December 2, 2009
Editor’s note: Aravo’s Tim Albinson asked if he could have the chance to issue a formal response to this post from earlier today. After I agreed to turn over the virtual pen, he sent me this.
Jason,
Thanks for the great write-up — you do an ex…
Posted in Business | Tagged analytics, aravo, Category Management, Cisco, innovation, Letters to the Editor, SIM, Spend Management, supply chain, supply risk, Sustainability, Tim Albinson, Visibility, WebEx
By Jason Busch on December 2, 2009
Earlier this morning, Aravo announced a $27 million funding round led by Cisco. While you can read the details of the funding round in the above-linked Spend Matters column — along with some thoughts from the transaction’s lead engineer, Aravo’s CEO…
Posted in Business | Tagged analytics, aravo, Category Management, Cisco, innovation, Spend Management, supply chain, supply risk, Sustainability, Visibility, WebEx
By Jason Busch on December 2, 2009
Earlier this fall Rosslyn Analytics, a UK-based provider of spend-analysis software and solutions, announced that it would deliver what
I believe to be the first free spend-analysis platform in the market.
I?ve had the chance to use the tool du…
Posted in Software | Tagged analytics, rapidintel.com, Rosslyn Analytics, SaaS, software as a service, Spend Management
By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on December 1, 2009
In the wake of the long-running massive industry consolidation in the Enterprise Software industry that reached its zenith with the acquisitions of Business Intelligence market leaders Hyperion, Cognos, and Business Objects in 2007, one could certainly have been forgiven for being less than optimistic about the prospects of innovation in the Analytics, Business Intelligence, and [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged 2010 predictions, analytics, business intelligence, Business Objects, cognos, Enterprise resource planning, excel, hadoop, hyperion, ibm, mashups, master data management, ms excel, performance management, predictive analysis, SaaS, salesforce.com, sharepoint, spss, varicent, virtualization, workday
