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By Jason Busch on March 15, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I re-introduced Spend Matters readers to Supplierforce, a Dublin-based Spend Management software/SaaS suite provider and consultancy with particular strengths in the area of supplier information management. Today I’ll conclude …
Posted in Software | Tagged BravoSolution, Contract Management, performance management, spend analysis, Spend Management, SupplierForce, Visibility
By Jason Busch on March 8, 2010
In years past, I introduced Spend Matters readers to a little-known supplier information-management vendor, Supplierforce, which is based in Dublin (you can read previous posts on Supplierforce here and here. Supplierforce has moved beyond its SIM pa…
Posted in Software | Tagged Ariba, BravoSolution, procurement, Risk management, Spend Management, Strategic sourcing, SupplierForce, Visibility
By Jason Busch on February 22, 2010
In the first column in this prediction series on building supplier transparency, I focused on the area of financial and business transparency. But this is only one type of supply chain transparency on which companies will focus on building in 2010, h…
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged aravo, Ariba, BravoSolution D&B, Ecovadis, Emptoris, Endeca, Hiperos, Marketplaces, performance management, performance transparency, SAS, social transparency, SupplierForce, Suppliers, SupplierSoft, supply chain, transparency, Vendormate, Visibility, Xcitec
By Jason Busch on February 16, 2010
Over on Supply Chain Management Review, an article by two Wipro consultants suggests that business intelligence (BI) software, such as the kind acquired by SAP and Oracle in recent years, is key to building supply chain visibility. The two argue that…
Posted in Business | Tagged Category Management, erp, Suppliers, supply chain, supply chain management, Visibility
By Jason Busch on February 15, 2010
Spend Matters believes that in 2010 transparency — not simply compliance management or supplier on-boarding — will begin to rule the supplier management focus. In recent years, many organizations have begun their supplier information management jou…
Posted in Business | Tagged procurement, Suppliers, Supply and demand, supply chain, transparency, Visibility
By Jason Busch on February 3, 2010
Earlier today, IBM announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Initiate Systems, a provider of customer data integration (CDI) and enterprise master patient index (EMPI) technology. According to the company press release, IBM describes Initiate as “a market leader in data integrity software for information sharing among healthcare and government organizations. Initiate’s software [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged cdi, customer data integration, EMPI, ibm, master data management, oracle, Purisma, siebel, Silver Creek, Spend Management, supply chain, supply risk, Visibility
By Jason Busch on January 18, 2010
In my first column on Ivalua, I provided a basic company overview and a high-level look at its various solution components; in today’s post, I’ll take a closer look at Ivalua and its various modules and products.
What stood out most about Ivalua…
Posted in Software | Tagged Ivalua, procurement, Sourcing, Spend Management, supply risk, Sustainability, Visibility
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 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
