Exploring e-Procurement Market Trends: No Winner Here
In the past quarter, we have gotten numerous calls from venture capital firms that wanted our opinion on the e-procurement (and broader Source-to-Pay) market, including growth and vendor prospects. As a favor, we try to spend a bit of time with them on the phone. But we suspect many leave more confused than when the […]
Will Ariba’s Currency Serve as a Means to a Dominant End?
We’ll be reviewing Ariba’s most recent quarterly earnings performance in detail starting later today, looking at clues about its implications for customers, competitors and the broader market (if you want financial analysis, there…
FieldGlass Doubles Down on BI and Contingent Spend (Part 2)
In my first column tackling the latest from Chicago-based VMS provider Fieldglass last week, I provided an overview of a number of the gaps they recently filled from a reporting, analytics, visualization and benchmarking perspective in their solution…
Services Spend App Watch: IQNavigator Launches New UI Leaving Them No Excuses
As someone who considers himself more of a business user and analyst than a developer or technologist — despite some close revenge of the nerd personal run-ins from time-to-time — I?ll confess that I sometimes get more excited than I should about h…
IQNavigator Brings in an Industry Outsider as CEO: Lou Andreozzi
Earlier today, IQNavigator, one of the top VMS platform providers (and also an MSP), announced that procurement and staffing industry outsider, Lou Andreozzi, would be taking over the helm. Andreozzi is replacing John Raeder, who founded IQNavigator …
