Ariba Breaks Up With "The Cloud," Romances "Enterprise Networks"
It seems that for every few “persons of interest” Kim Kardashian is seen with, Ariba comes up with a new corporate umbrella from which to dangle its overall company and product positioning. Fortunately, we all know the results that goo…
Spend Analysis: The Definitive Book on Next Level Performance
Even though Michael Lamoureux (Sourcing Innovation) and I love to quibble (and as some folks know, escalate our rhetoric from time to time) I have to lavish unrestricted praise on a new book he just co-authored:
Spend Visibility: An I…
Rant: Custom Software Development – Is There a Point?
I had a demonstration earlier this year with an organization (that will go unnamed) that decided to build its own internal Spend Management applications, starting first with an application to span the traditional purchase to pay (…
Friday Rant: How Will the Spend Management Technology Landscape Look in 2013 (Part 2)
In the first rant in this series, I proffered an opinion about how the Spend Management P2P technology landscape might look in 2013. Today I’ll turn my attention to the e-sourcing and related category management, advanced sourcing…
2011 Prediction: Embedded Analytics Become Mainstream in Certain Procurement Application Areas
I’ve been slow to make a set of predictions for 2011, but I’ll continue to trickle them out in the coming weeks. One prediction I’ve been thinking quite a bit about — which is already becoming reality in contingent procurement vi…
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…
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…
Analyzing Ariba’s Fourth Quarter (Part 1)
Last week, Ariba announced its latest quarterly results. Even though the purpose of this mini-series looking at their performance and what it means for the market is to dig into the numbers and qualitative observations, I find it …
Military Cost Savings: Beyond Inflatable Russian Bears
File this one under the post Cold-War Spend Management files. Apparently, the Ruskies have developed an incredibly fearsome and threatening technology that can strike panic into the hearts of defense analysts relying on satellite …
Bristlecone and Hubwoo — Two SAP Ecosystem Rivals Decide to Work Together (Part 2)
In the first post in this series examining the recently announced partnership between Bristlecone and Hubwoo, I explored a number of background elements that led to the partnership as well as some of its highlights. In today’s ins…
