When Your Suppliers Swim in (Loan) Shark-Infested Financing Waters
When I first started researching and covering procurement, it was rare to find an article in a popular newspaper or magazine about the area. But now, it seems to happen at least once a week. Just this weekend, The New York Times published a highly in…
Rosslyn Analytics’ New Twist on Spend Visibility (Part 2)
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…
Friday Rant: No Vendor (even an On-Demand One) is an Island
There seems to be a fallacy on the provider side of the Spend Management market that On-Demand or SaaS business models do not require the same level of expert third-party services and implementation support as installed solutions. More and more, I se…
