Even though I think we would all rather be referred to as sourcing, supply management, Spend Management or supply chain professionals than as “corporate buyers”, it’s not everyday that our sector lands on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal. B…
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While it’s not exactly new news — milk good PR for all it’s worth, I say — Zycus’ spend visibility deal with Orkla is fascinating given the multi-lingual, multi-currency environment that its applications are supporting. According to Supply and Demand Chain Executive, the Norwegian company is “deploying Zycus’ spend data management solution to gain view […]
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Oracle’s acquisition announcement of Hyperion — especially coming on top of SAP’s Pilot Software acquisition — last week signals a number of things for the overall analytics and business performance management market. Above all, enterprise application and lower-level stack providers are becoming increasingly interested in also dominating the finance and analysis interface with line of […]
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In one of the more interesting acquisitions last year, Equifax picked up data enrichment provider Austin Tetra. Recently, the ever traveling and enterprising Michael Lamoureux took it upon himself to provide us with an updated as to how Equifax is digesting its recent Spend Management morsel.
What’s most interesting about his write-up is it would […]
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Over the past few months, AMR’s Mickey North Rizza and I have been trading thoughts on the spend visibility sector — among other areas — quite a bit. Because Mickey recently came from a practitioner role, I think she is in a unique position as both an analyst and user “insider” to discuss what is […]
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If there’s any question as to how hot spend visibility is right now, it was quickly dispelled last week when there were three separate vendor announcements about product enhancements. I covered the Procuri spend visibility analyst tour — and you can find their press release noting spend visibility enhancement here — so today I’ll point […]
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Along with the industry analysts, I took part in hearing Procuri’s latest road-show pitch during their most recent analyst tour last week. Tim Minahan and Rod True, Senior Vice President of Spend Intelligence at Procuri, were joined by client Greg Shifflet, who serves as Director of Enterprise Spend Management at Alliant Tech Systems. In full […]
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Last week, Ketera announced a deal with Hyperion, a leading business intelligence vendor. As David Bush already picked up on E-Sourcing Forum, “This alliance should come as no surprise to those paying attention since Burton Goldfield was formerly in executive management at Hyperion before taking the reins at Ketera. I would be surprised if this […]
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If you have a minute, it’s worth checking out Eric Strovink’s guest post over on E-Sourcing Forum that discusses why companies are often disappointed from their spend analysis initiatives. Eric argues that meeting the needs of three separate groups of constituents can be quite a challenge. These three groups are:
1) Those primarily interested in […]
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David Bush’s predictions for 2007 over on E-Sourcing Forum, I’d suggest giving them a cursory glance. A number are concepts and themes that I’ve talked about on these virtual pages for quite sometime, while others are not. From a technology / vendor perspective, one which I would agree with […]
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