Friday Rant: How Will Rearden Cut Its New Ketera Cards?
Last week, Spend Matters covered Rearden Commerce’s Acquisition of Ketera in three posts:
Rearden Commerce Acquires Ketera, Creating a New, Broad Spend Management Offering
With Ketera, Will Rearden Prove a Viable P2P Competito…
Rearden and Ketera — Acquisition Implications for Ketera Customers
While Rearden’s acquisition of Ketera has many implications for the broader P2P and Spend Management market — ranging from an evolving competitive landscape with greater choice of stable vendors for customers to a potential re-in…
With Ketera, Will Rearden Prove a Viable P2P Competitor to Ariba, Basware, Coupa, SAP, Oracle, etc.?
See our initial coverage of Rearden’s acquisition of Ketera here. One thing has been for sure in terms of Ketera in recent years, and that’s the fact that few dispute whether the vendor has gotten enough at bats relative to compet…
Ariba StartSourcing/StartContracts — Commendable SMB Effort, Not as Cheap as they Seem (Part 2)
In the first installment of this post, we explored the basic capabilities of Ariba StartSourcing and StartContracts, two new low-end configurations of popular Ariba products aimed towards the small business market. In today’s cont…
Ariba StartSourcing/StartContracts — Commendable SMB Effort, But not as Cheap as It Seems (Part 1)
I recently dug into Ariba’s new down-market SmartSourcing and SmartContracts offerings that represent simplified yet decent products for the mid-market in their own right. Information Week — which ironically published an article …
Ariba’s Network Price Hike Takes Effect — But What Are Your Alternatives?
Spend Matters has spent a good deal of time reporting the impact — hopefully from all perspectives and viewpoints — of the Ariba supplier network price hike which is now, as of September, in effect. Our research on the subject s…
Thomas Accelerates the Growth of Ketera’s Network Business
It seems that being a marketplace is back in vogue these days. But this time around — based on the strategies of MFG.com, Ariba and Ketera — there appears to be two keys to being successful: building scale and building liquidity (versus following a Field of Dreams “if you build it they will come” type [...]
Alert – PurchasingNet Customers Should Evaluate Other Options
Following the announcement of Versata’s acquisition of PurchasingNet
last week, I had the chance to catch up with Mike Williams, a general
manager at Versata responsible for its Nextance (contract
management) and newly acquired PurchasingNet…
Ketera Joins the Free eRFX Fray
Last week, Ketera announced a new free eRFX offering designed around connecting buyers to suppliers. There’s
nothing overly novel in the approach of providing a free forum to
connect buyers and suppliers — MFG.com, Ariba’s network, and others …
