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Friday Rant: How Will Rearden Cut Its New Ketera Cards?

Friday Rant: How Will Rearden Cut Its New Ketera Cards?

By Jason Busch on December 10, 2010

Last week, Spend Matters covered Rearden Commerce’s Acquisition of Ketera in three posts:

Rearden Commerce Acquires Ketera, Creating a New, Broad Spend Management Offering
With Ketera, Will Rearden Prove a Viable P2P Competito…

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Coupa, Ketera, Rearden Commerce, spend analysis, supply chain

Rearden and Ketera -- Acquisition Implications for Ketera Customers

Rearden and Ketera — Acquisition Implications for Ketera Customers

By Jason Busch on December 2, 2010

While Rearden’s acquisition of Ketera has many implications for the broader P2P and Spend Management market — ranging from an evolving competitive landscape with greater choice of stable vendors for customers to a potential re-in…

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, basware, Coupa, Ketera, Rearden, spend analysis

With Ketera, Will Rearden Prove a Viable P2P Competitor to Ariba, Basware, Coupa, SAP, Oracle, etc.?

With Ketera, Will Rearden Prove a Viable P2P Competitor to Ariba, Basware, Coupa, SAP, Oracle, etc.?

By Jason Busch on December 1, 2010

See our initial coverage of Rearden’s acquisition of Ketera here. One thing has been for sure in terms of Ketera in recent years, and that’s the fact that few dispute whether the vendor has gotten enough at bats relative to compet…

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, basware, Coupa, Ketera, Rearden Commerce, Spend Management

Ariba StartSourcing/StartContracts -- Commendable SMB Effort, Not as Cheap as they Seem (Part 2)

Ariba StartSourcing/StartContracts — Commendable SMB Effort, Not as Cheap as they Seem (Part 2)

By Jason Busch on October 6, 2010

In the first installment of this post, we explored the basic capabilities of Ariba StartSourcing and StartContracts, two new low-end configurations of popular Ariba products aimed towards the small business market. In today’s cont…

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Ketera, Price point, pricing, sap, small business

Ariba StartSourcing/StartContracts -- Commendable SMB Effort, But not as Cheap as It Seems (Part 1)

Ariba StartSourcing/StartContracts — Commendable SMB Effort, But not as Cheap as It Seems (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on October 5, 2010

I recently dug into Ariba’s new down-market SmartSourcing and SmartContracts offerings that represent simplified yet decent products for the mid-market in their own right. Information Week — which ironically published an article …

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Ketera, procurement, smb, sme, software as a service | 1 Response

Ariba’s Network Price Hike Takes Effect -- But What Are Your Alternatives?

Ariba’s Network Price Hike Takes Effect — But What Are Your Alternatives?

By Jason Busch on September 16, 2010

Spend Matters has spent a good deal of time reporting the impact — hopefully from all perspectives and viewpoints — of the Ariba supplier network price hike which is now, as of September, in effect. Our research on the subject s…

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Ariba Buyer, Ariba Network Price, Ketera, Oracle iProcurement, research | 1 Response

Thomas Accelerates the Growth of Ketera's Network Business

Thomas Accelerates the Growth of Ketera’s Network Business

By Jason Busch on June 21, 2010

It seems that being a marketplace is back in vogue these days. But this time around — based on the strategies of MFG.com, Ariba and Ketera — there appears to be two keys to being successful: building scale and building liquidity (versus following a Field of Dreams “if you build it they will come” type […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Ariba Discovery, E-Commerce, Ketera, marketing, ThomasNet

Alert - PurchasingNet Customers Should Evaluate Other Options

Alert – PurchasingNet Customers Should Evaluate Other Options

By Jason Busch on January 21, 2010

Following the announcement of Versata’s acquisition of PurchasingNet
last week, I had the chance to catch up with Mike Williams, a general
manager at Versata responsible for its Nextance (contract
management) and newly acquired PurchasingNet…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Ariba, Bellwether, Commerce One, Coupa, Enporion, ePlus, eprocurement, Global eProcure, Ivalua, Ketera, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mergers And Acquisitions, Metiom, Nextance, Perfect, Proactis, PurchasingNet, roll-up strategy, Spend Management, Verian, Versata | 1 Response

Ketera Joins the Free eRFX Fray

Ketera Joins the Free eRFX Fray

By Jason Busch on January 11, 2010

Last week, Ketera announced a new free eRFX offering designed around connecting buyers to suppliers. There’s
nothing overly novel in the approach of providing a free forum to
connect buyers and suppliers — MFG.com, Ariba’s network, and others …

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Ariba, E-Commerce, Emptoris, eRFX, Jason Busch, Ketera, rfi, rfp | 1 Response

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