SaaS
Those of you who read the On-Demand / Software as a Service Application Platforms wiki-paper, already have fifteen (15) great reasons to go SaaS, which include: Pay As You Go Instant Deployment Single Instance Economies of Scale Provider Handles Administration, Maintenance, [...]
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One of the great things about the blogsphere is we don’t have to wait for them to stop the presses to get a great story in at the last minute. We just type, save, publish - and presto! - you get the latest news as soon as we get it, as it happens, and, when [...]
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The effectiveness of your Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution and its ability to manage the information associated with the entire lifecycle of a product from conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal, can be the difference between costly inefficiency and profitable efficiency. However, the complexity and cost associated with many traditional PLM [...]
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RSAG Research recently released their first annual Software-as-a-Service and the Need for Speed Benchmark Report 2007-2008 that found that retailers are feeling the “need for speed” when it comes to delivering new IT-enabled capabilities. This desire is driven from both internal and external pressures; customers are demanding better service from retailers (particularly for multi-channel [...]
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Over the past year, I’ve blogged a number of guest posts over on eSourcing Forum, including forty posts last summer as part of the weekend series. For new(er) readers to the blog, here is a list of all guest posts over on eSourcing Forum with direct links.
Weekend Series Posts
Purchasing Innovation [...]
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Recently, Knowledge@Wharton ran a great article on Why Software Business Models of the Future Probably Won’t Come in a Box that made some great points that are definitely worth repeating, despite the fact that the article is focussed primarily on Microsoft and the challenges that lie ahead for the lumbering behemoth.
The article begins by noting [...]
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As per my Noteworthy last week, Iasta is about to release it’s new Spend Analysis platform SmartAnalytics, Emptoris, building on it’s acquisitions of Zeborg and diCarta, just released the new version of its enterprise suite with its new and improved Spend Analysis Solution, and earlier this year Procuri consumed TrueSource to offer TotalAnalytics - and [...]
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ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning - the be-all and end-all of business software - all of your transactional data in one place - everything you need to run your business - only seven figures! That was the promise.
The reality is much different. Seven figures for the software license. Multiples of that for the installation. That [...]
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Earlier today we discussed the unique challenges of travel procurement - a nightmare shared by your employees as well as your finance team. After all, when booking a single trip can take an hour by the time you book your flight, rental car, hotel, airport transportation, off-airport parking, and dinner reservations and when finance has [...]
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I’ve been blogging a lot about visibility lately and mentioning Apexon rather frequently even though I’m sure most of you haven’t heard about this little company or what they do. Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Kevin Brooks (an occasional guest blogger here on Sourcing Innovation, in other words, his commentary [...]
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