By Jason Busch on September 11, 2017
Within the procurement technology arena, Oracle is not as well known as many of its peers with similar market share. There are numerous reasons for this, but in starting with the obvious, we would note that Oracle has so many product lines (and so many procurement products) that any individual application or suite of combined […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on April 12, 2016
Marketers Face Massive Challenges In Making The Digital Shift In interviews with over 100 digitally focused, modern CMO’s, shared common challenges in the transformation of their roles and with the support of new digital business models. The top 20 modern marketing challenges (not in order of importance) include: Delivering on a creative to commerce […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 11, 2016
Organizations In Search Of Growth Must Consider Macro Forces Burgeoning money supplies in both the US and China have fueled an indefensible growth post Global Financial Crisis. Since 2000, the money supply has tripled from $6000 USD billion to 12288.10 USD billion in November of 2015 (see Figure 1). Since 2005, china’s money supply has […]
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By Jason Busch on November 16, 2015
Cloud e-procurement is procurement. It’s time to declare CD versions of e-procurement software — and in most cases, broader procure-to-pay (P2P) solutions, inclusive of e-invoicing — dead. Cloud e-procurement has not only become the de facto standard for even large companies going into new software selection processes. It is also now the perceived migration path […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on July 12, 2015
Get All 10 Lessons Learned From Disrupting Digital Business As with the beginning of every revolution, those in the midst of it can feel it, sense it, and realize that something big is happening. Yet it’s hard to quantify the shift. The data isn’t clear. It’s hard to measure. Pace of change is accelerating. Old […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on July 2, 2015
Get All 10 Lessons Learned From Disrupting Digital Business As with the beginning of every revolution, those in the midst of it can feel it, sense it, and realize that something big is happening. Yet it’s hard to quantify the shift. The data isn’t clear. It’s hard to measure. Pace of change is accelerating. Old […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on June 22, 2015
Get All 10 Lessons Learned From Disrupting Digital Business As with the beginning of every revolution, those in the midst of it can feel it, sense it, and realize that something big is happening. Yet it’s hard to quantify the shift. The data isn’t clear. It’s hard to measure. Pace of change is accelerating. Old […]
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By Jason Busch on May 14, 2015
Earlier this week at Empower, the annual IBM procurement event, IBM Emptoris and Coupa announced a broader sales and distribution partner agreement, one built on top of a previous partnership between the 2 vendors. The IBM team told Spend Matters that the 2 providers have approximately 6 clients in common right now, including a large […]
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By Jason Busch on April 16, 2015
Earlier in this series, we shared some of the key lessons learned, gleaned from our discussions with the P2P process owner for a large food and beverage company (see Part 1 and Part 2 for these initial tips). Today, we continue our exploration based on additional secrets this organization unlocked in its supplier enablement and […]
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By Jason Busch on April 15, 2015
There’s no substitute for learning from experience when it comes to supplier enablement for e-invoicing programs. Earlier this year, our research team spoke with the P2P process owner and head of supplier enrollment for a large food and beverage company. Spend Matters previously shared some of the early lessons in the first installment in this […]
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