
New Research: Going Collaborative/Quantitative — Limits Reverse Auctions, Strategic Sourcing
This morning, we’re excited to announce the publication of a new Spend Matters and MetalMiner Perspective, A Personal Lesson: Reaching the Limits of Reverse Auctions and Strategic Sourcing — When Collaborative and Quantitative Ap…

How to really transform a service business
Every time I go to a NetSuite event, I wonder to myself why other vendors don’t make more of a song-and-dance about the potential for highly impactful business transformation that SaaS enables. Maybe it’s the particular sector of the market that NetSuite targets, where the early adopters are companies that want to find some way […]
Shouldn’t services firms have their own ERP?
I caught up this week with Morris Panner, CEO of OpenAir (now part of NetSuite). One aspect of our wide-ranging conversation concerned the continuing evolution of businesses, the economy, etc. towards a greater services orientation. Drawing on that, we discussed how services firms need their own version of ERP.
Here are just some of the […]