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Ariba Breaks Up With "The Cloud," Romances "Enterprise Networks"

Ariba Breaks Up With "The Cloud," Romances "Enterprise Networks"

By Jason Busch on April 12, 2012

It seems that for every few “persons of interest” Kim Kardashian is seen with, Ariba comes up with a new corporate umbrella from which to dangle its overall company and product positioning. Fortunately, we all know the results that goo…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Ariba, Ariba network, Business-to-Business, Cloud, Commerce One, Kim Kardashian, procurement, Spend Management, VerticalNet

Spend Analysis: The Definitive Book on Next Level Performance

Spend Analysis: The Definitive Book on Next Level Performance

By Jason Busch on December 8, 2011

Even though Michael Lamoureux (Sourcing Innovation) and I love to quibble (and as some folks know, escalate our rhetoric from time to time) I have to lavish unrestricted praise on a new book he just co-authored:
Spend Visibility: An I…

Posted in Business | Tagged spend analysis, Spend Management

Rant: Custom Software Development - Is There a Point?

Rant: Custom Software Development – Is There a Point?

By Jason Busch on March 21, 2011

I had a demonstration earlier this year with an organization (that will go unnamed) that decided to build its own internal Spend Management applications, starting first with an application to span the traditional purchase to pay (…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged American Idol, Ariba, basware, Coupa, custom software, SAP Sourcing, Spend Management | 1 Response

Friday Rant: How Will the Spend Management Technology Landscape Look in 2013 (Part 2)

Friday Rant: How Will the Spend Management Technology Landscape Look in 2013 (Part 2)

By Jason Busch on February 18, 2011

In the first rant in this series, I proffered an opinion about how the Spend Management P2P technology landscape might look in 2013. Today I’ll turn my attention to the e-sourcing and related category management, advanced sourcing…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Ariba, BravoSolution, CombineNet, rollstream, sap, Spend Management, Zycus

2011 Prediction: Embedded Analytics Become Mainstream in Certain Procurement Application Areas

2011 Prediction: Embedded Analytics Become Mainstream in Certain Procurement Application Areas

By Jason Busch on February 2, 2011

I’ve been slow to make a set of predictions for 2011, but I’ll continue to trickle them out in the coming weeks. One prediction I’ve been thinking quite a bit about — which is already becoming reality in contingent procurement vi…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged 2011 Predictions, analytics, Embedded system, procurement, Spend Management

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

Enhancing SAP and Oracle with Supplier Onboarding, Catalog Management/MDM and Invoicing

Enhancing SAP and Oracle with Supplier Onboarding, Catalog Management/MDM and Invoicing

By Jason Busch on November 4, 2010

Spend Matters is thrilled to announce our most recent Compass Research brief, Making ERP Procurement Technology Work — Essential Third-Party Technologies, Solutions and Deployment Models to Accelerate Returns, part of our third C…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged master data management, oracle, PeopleSoft, research, sap, Spend Management, Spend Matters Compass

Analyzing Ariba’s Fourth Quarter (Part 1)

Analyzing Ariba’s Fourth Quarter (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on November 1, 2010

Last week, Ariba announced its latest quarterly results. Even though the purpose of this mini-series looking at their performance and what it means for the market is to dig into the numbers and qualitative observations, I find it …

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Revenue, Spend Management

Military Cost Savings: Beyond Inflatable Russian Bears

Military Cost Savings: Beyond Inflatable Russian Bears

By Jason Busch on October 18, 2010

File this one under the post Cold-War Spend Management files. Apparently, the Ruskies have developed an incredibly fearsome and threatening technology that can strike panic into the hearts of defense analysts relying on satellite …

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cold-War, Military budget, Russia, Spend Management, Surface-to-air missile | 2 Responses

Bristlecone and Hubwoo -- Two SAP Ecosystem Rivals Decide to Work Together (Part 2)

Bristlecone and Hubwoo — Two SAP Ecosystem Rivals Decide to Work Together (Part 2)

By Jason Busch on October 11, 2010

In the first post in this series examining the recently announced partnership between Bristlecone and Hubwoo, I explored a number of background elements that led to the partnership as well as some of its highlights. In today’s ins…

Posted in Business | Tagged Bristlecone, Coupa, Hubwo, sap, Spend Management

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