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…
Rosslyn: Healthy Growth and Exploiting a Growing Niche in DIY Spend Visibility (Part 1)
Rosslyn Analytics, like Spend Rader and Vendormate, two other young, upstart providers in the spend analysis and supplier management areas, has been going through a very strong period of growth in the past year. In a recent call w…
Zycus — A Summer Update (Part 1)
This spring, I had the chance to meet dozens of Zycus customers and prospects as their “Experience” tour criss-crossed the country. These discussions with both existing and potential customers considering a range of Zycus solutions further solidified my view that Zycus has been successful in expanding outside of just the spend analysis area. They may [...]
Friday Rant: Spend Jihadists vs. Non Believers
Earlier this week, I met a number of practitioners deeply involved in spend analysis as the global Zycus Experience Tour kicked off its US leg in New York (I’m speaking at the Chicago event today and Houston and Los Angeles in the coming weeks as well). The event was well attended (50+ people), especially considering [...]
2010 Prediction: The Year ERP (SAP, Oracle, and Infor) Get Spend Management Right
This second prediction for 2010 is bound to generate some controversy (read the first here).
After all, ERP providers have lost one opportunity after another to
consolidate the Spend Management market in recent years, giving best-of-breed provi…
Zycus Speaks — Market Observations: 2010
Before the holidays, I reached out to a number of the larger software
providers in the sector as well as some of the rapidly growing mid-size providers to get their perspectives on the trends and
observations on which they’re banking in 2010. W…
Beyond Spend Visibility — Zycus Takes a Broader Solution Path (Part 1)
Earlier this fall, I had the chance to get a regular business and solutions update from Zycus. Then, a few weeks later, I caught up with the Zycus team along with one of their customers in Chicago. Zycus’ reference customer, from a well-known medica…
Friday Rant: With Technology Choice Comes Responsibility That Many Aren’t Ready For
When I first got started in the Spend Management world back when buyers were just buyers and Ariba, i2 and Commerce One were more happy to trade barbs with each other than actually deliver solutions that did what they promised, the fundamental defini…
An Oracle of Spend Classification or Just Another Spend Tool? (Part 3)
In the first two parts of this mini-series (Part 1 and Part 2) looking at Oracle’s new spend classification tool, I examined some of the basic capabilities it presents as well as how it appears to work in practice based on a relatively quick demonstr…
