Back in my April 23rd post “What IBM was to mainframes and Coupa was to SaaS, Nipendo is to the P2P cloud“, I wrote the following; I believe that Nipendo is a company to watch – and watch closely – in that not only have they seen the future, they also understand it and are positioned to leverage and influence it to the full benefit of their clients.
Given the news that Gartner has just named Nipendo to their 2014 Cool Vendor list, one might think that I yet again nailed it in terms of picking another winning player in the eProcurement world. However, when it comes to vendors like Nipendo, it is more a case of the company making the journalist/analyst look smart. Or to put it another way, think of it in the context of the hockey scout who said that Wayne Gretzy or Mario Lemieux were going to be great players. You don’t need a special insight or a unique knack to recognize talent of that magnitude!
Let’s face it, Nipendo was bound for success regardless of what the industry pundits had to say. They are simply just that good at what they do.
The only question that remains is what’s next? Similar to watching the Great One play hockey, the coming months and years with Nipendo are also going to be fun to watch!
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PHOEBE LORYNNES
June 3, 2014
I have read the article you sent me,am so happy because i have acquired alot of knoweledge from it.
———- Sent from my Nokia phone
Avner
June 11, 2014
Didn’t SpendMatters write about these guys over a year ago before anyone knew about them? Let’s give some credit where it’s due – even if you don’t like them.
piblogger
June 11, 2014
Thank you for your comment Avner. The only thing I would add is that I don’t dislike Spend Matters.
In fact recently I was the moderator for a webinar in which Spend Matters UK’s Peter Smith was a member of the panel.
As indicated in my May 29th post (http://wp.me/p4HrB-3TJ), I thought that Peter offered some great insights during the discussion, including what I felt was one of the key points from the entire webinar.