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We’ll have a corporate blog up shortly - and updates like these will be posted there once we do..
Some things we hope to introduce very soon include an online demo system for our Enterprise Edition (followed by Open Source Edition). We’ll have a lot better demo data in there then the skinny’d down database embedded [...]
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Alex runs a blog called Open Source Unleased. A few weeks back Alex reached out to me and asked if I’d like to participate in an e-interview, something he’s done with a few other folks in the open source game. Here it is.
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If you go looking for a traditional requisition line category in the Coupa eProcurement Preview Release you will come up empty-handed. It’s not there. Of course, it’s MIA on purpose.
While I was at Oracle I kept trying to figure out how to solve the categorization riddle. On the one hand, classifying spend is a reporting/accounting [...]
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I’m pleased to announce we’ve issued our preview release of Coupa eProcurement. Our corporate website is refreshed, and we are live on Sourceforge. There are still a bunch of things to do to dress up our presence at both places, but it’s a good start.
I want to strongly express my gratitude to Noah Eisner, David [...]
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Late last year I began recovering from all the Oracle technology cool-aid I’d read, repeated, and internalized. And as I mentioned previously, I began to recoil from the complexity of Java. Imho some of the IDE’s around Java simply make it worse - a complex wrapper around a verbose language. And before the flame mails [...]
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After developing Oracle’s eProcurement solution under the leadership of Kevin Miller back in 1997 and 1998 it may seem odd that Noah Eisner and I chose to build our first open source Procurement module in that venerable space. But it’s not. Year in and year out, our experiences led us to believe eProcurement was the [...]
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Say you’re a senior strategic buyer, in charge of software. You’ve worked with the business to nail the requirements & now you’re ready to issue an RFP. You’ve found 3 vendors who seem like great candidates - but 2 are traditional firms and 1 is, gasp, an open source outfit.
You issue a 50-page document with [...]
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Hope all of my US readers are off to a fun day of BBQ’s, watching fireworks, and having fun.
It’s exciting to be within a few weeks of publishing our initial release of Coupa eProcurement. Despite our hectic schedules as we wrap things up, we’re happy to continue offering prospects, analysts, and others a special overview [...]
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Noah Eisner and I have been working together for many years now. He ran Procurement product management for me at Oracle. It's fair to say I respect and admire his work a great deal. After all, he and I co-founded Coupa.
If you're a regular reader, you'll remember I've included comments from him previously here at [...]
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I'm excited to begin discussing some of the decisions my startup, Coupa, has been making in the technology space. But this is just a precursor - a post to articulate some of our considerations on choosing our technology. I promise a more "meaty" post on the subject in the future.
First let me just say that [...]
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