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Friday Rant: The FreeMarkets Legacy: Accenture's Gain, Ariba's Loss

Friday Rant: The FreeMarkets Legacy: Accenture’s Gain, Ariba’s Loss

By Jason Busch on October 8, 2010

Eleven years ago, about two hundred of us were averaging 14+ hour days in a Class B office building in Pittsburgh, intent on changing the sourcing and procurement world. Thanks to a strong vision and the ability to raise enough ca…

Posted in Business | Tagged Accenture, Ariba, Freemarkets, Spend Management

With Smaller Providers, Software and Services Can be Hard to Mix (Part 1)

With Smaller Providers, Software and Services Can be Hard to Mix (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on June 15, 2010

Back in the reverse auction heyday between 1999 and 2001, I spent countless hours helping FreeMarkets evangelize its position that companies should avoid buying either software or consulting to do sourcing, but rather a combination of both — a solution. Our primary argument was that the sourcing process was inherently too complicated and difficult to […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Business Model, CombineNet, E-Commerce, Freemarkets, Reverse auction, software as a service

Friday Rant: What's Holding Ariba Back? (Part 2)

Friday Rant: What’s Holding Ariba Back? (Part 2)

By Jason Busch on February 12, 2010

In the first part of this column from last Friday’s Rant, I shared a few thoughts on what I thought was holding Ariba back from even larger growth, from the perspective of solution and customer communications. In the second installment of this rant t…

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Freemarkets, Friday Rant, Spend Management, Strategic sourcing

Will the Industry Analyst's Micro-Definition of Sourcing Ever Change?

Will the Industry Analyst’s Micro-Definition of Sourcing Ever Change?

By Jason Busch on January 27, 2010

I remember the first time I read a Gartner report at FreeMarkets. Our account representative at the time pointed out a new
report dedicated to examining “strategic sourcing” — something that
would be right up our alley. He referred me to a pri…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Forrester, Freemarkets, gartner, Jason Busch, procurement, Strategic sourcing

e-Three: Proof of the Commoditization of High-Quality, Low-Cost E-Sourcing

e-Three: Proof of the Commoditization of High-Quality, Low-Cost E-Sourcing

By Jason Busch on December 7, 2009

When I first got a peek inside a full service e-sourcing process in
the late nineties, I quickly realized that, despite all the posturing
and spin behind how FreeMarkets and others positioned it, the
process was really more science than art….

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Accenture, e-sourcing, e-Three, Freemarkets, ibm, Outsourcing, Services Procurement, supply chain, Tiger Woods

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