I’ve been asked on more than a half-dozen occasions to spend a day with clients (both practitioners and vendors/services providers) to provide my view of the rapidly unfolding spend analysis landscape, discussing a diversity of approaches to identify…
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In the first of this two-part series on the new enterprise spend analysis product from Rosslyn Analytics, I tackled some of its spend visibility basics, such as how does the solution handle data, acquisition/management, enrichment, and basic spend qu…
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( For Part 1, click here.)
One of the questions asked by some of Spend Radar’s channel partners (and customers ) when first hearing of the tool is simple: does the
world really need another spend-classification and -analysis product?
Aren’t…
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While I plan, over the holiday break, to find as many ways as possible to ignore
numbers, charts, graphics, and useful and creative
quantitative displays of visual information in general, there was a time earlier in the month when, although ove…
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A few weeks back, over the best Korean fried chicken in Chicago, if not the world, I
had the chance to catch up with Brian Daniels and Rod True of Spend Radar. In full disclosure,
Spend Radar is not only a sponsor of Spend Matters, but Brian is…
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Earlier this morning, Aravo announced a $27 million funding round led by Cisco. While you can read the details of the funding round in the above-linked Spend Matters column — along with some thoughts from the transaction’s lead engineer, Aravo’s CEO…
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Earlier this fall Rosslyn Analytics, a UK-based provider of spend-analysis software and solutions, announced that it would deliver what
I believe to be the first free spend-analysis platform in the market.
I?ve had the chance to use the tool du…
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Every week, I try to give myself an hour or two to surf the web and do research on companies and news that I might not otherwise come across in the regular contingent of sites and publications I peruse (don’t ask — it’s probably upwards of 150 now)….
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This afternoon Spend Matters would like to welcome Kevin Cornish, of Aravo and supply risk blog, @risk.
Financial analysts are already weighing in with their 2010 forecasts for the banking, credit and lending industry, and not surprisingly, the …
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This morning, I’d like to welcome a guest post from an industry colleague and friend, Tim Albinson. Tim is President and CEO of Aravo and the author of green and CSR blog, 2Sustain.
Sustainability is no longer considered a passing fad or a nice-to…
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