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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In Part XI of The Sourcing Innovation Series, John Martin of IQNavigator authored a guest post on “The Future of Sourcing … for Services” which I discussed further in Part XII where I indicated that I not only agreed with John in that services sourcing is going to become a major part of your future […]
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Earlier this month, Purchasing.com published yet another article about on-demand entitled On-demand promises to hook savings stating that on-demand software and technology is more than just software on someone else’s serversâ€â€it’s a delivery method that supporters say improves ROI. However, what caught my attention about this article was that it gave some suggestions on how […]
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Today I’d like to welcome guest contributor John Martin of IQNavigator to SourcingInnovation with a guest post on The Future of Sourcing … for Services. If you followed the On-Demand series, you might remember that I discussed his article How True Software-as-a-service Delivers More Value extensively in the fourth installment of my On Demand series. […]
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One of the articles in the Summer issue of CPO Agenda asks One tool or a whole toolbox? Another viewpoint in the never-ending ERP vs. Best-of-Breed debate, it notes that despite the improving functionality of ERP systems, many companies still turn to Best-of-Breed ( Bob ) vendors to meet their procurement and supply chain needs. […]
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Author’s note: This is a joint effort with Michael Lamoureux.
A lot of vendors these days are claiming to offer SaaS, because that’s the buzzword of the day and people are realizing that unless they are an IT company with their own high reliability, fault-tolerant, data center with redundant Internet connectivity and power providers, it’s usually […]
I was recently reading through the Financial Times, which was running a special section on digital business. In it were a number of interesting articles about IT procurement and the current state of investments, architecture, homogeny and best practices.
Via a study by PwC partner, Bob Zukis, some conclusions are being drawn to the productivity […]
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Supply Chain Brain recently republished findings from a study on SaaS fundamentals from Saugatuck Technology. In it, were some less than glowing prognostications about the immediate stability of the entire SaaS industry. I think you can already figure out where I will take this – would I really want to call attention to […]
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