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PI Inquisitive Eye goes undercover at SAP, Oracle and Ariba
February 17, 2011
It isn’t often that you get the opportunity to be the proverbial fly on the wall in terms of having access to the hallowed boardrooms and back offices of industry giants such as SAP, Oracle and Ariba. But flies on the wall we were, when the PI Inquisitive Eye went undercover at an SAP board […]
Despite technical difficulties (isn’t live radio grand?), the interview with Oakland Unified School District’s Moore delivers timely insights
February 16, 2011
Despite technical difficulties both at the very start and end of the show, the meat of the interview sandwich as I would call it with Oakland Unified School District’s Michael Moore was very informative especially within the present day context of budgetary shortfalls at the State and municipal levels. Like Nassau County, whose finances […]
Money and brains is a dangerous combination . . . for COUPA’s competitors
February 15, 2011
“Adoption of the Coupa Cloud Spend Management Platform exploded in 2010 with monthly recurring revenue growing 156% year-over-year, placing Coupa among the fastest-growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies.” Terms such as developer of category-disrupting cloud spend management (CSM) solutions, delivering a level of visibility and control over spending that never existed before through innovations such as consolidated […]
Interview reveals that it is the unknown consequences (and costs) associated with lease capitalization that poses the greatest threat to small business
February 15, 2011
Sometimes the most powerful insights come in the smallest packages, or in this case shortest interviews. This morning on the PI Window on Business I had the opportunity to talk briefly with subject matter expert Michael VanderGoot CPA, who is a Senior Compliance Officer at BC Compliance Group, LLC about the IFRS move towards establishing […]
For 5 years the Oakland Unified School District has done what 85% of the market has failed to do . . . sucessfully implement and leverage an eProcurement solution
February 9, 2011
At California’s Oakland Unified School District (USD), which manages 146 district schools with more than 45,000 students, the march toward e-procurement has paid enormous dividends. Not only is the district saving about $2 million annually, it is also improving the educational process by ensuring that computers, supplies and books are available when and where they’re […]
Proactive Recognition on the part of IACCM will help their members maintain relevancy in a changing world
February 8, 2011
No sooner do I talk about a study spanning several decades which concluded that generally speaking executives perceive the buyer role as a low level position, in which “one strategic business thinker with the right skills and capabilities is worth 10 or 12 of your normal, run-of-the-mill purchasing people,” and (not surprisingly) IACCM demonstrates their […]
Host Jon Hansen: Master of Social Media Has Tricky Dick’s Kids in His Sights
February 8, 2011
NOTE: The following is a reprint of a feature post on the Blog Talk Radio blog regarding the PI Window on Business Show – thank you to the Network for such a nice write-up. Jon Hansen’s enthusiasm for BlogTalkRadio is, it seems safe to say, unrivaled among his fellow hosts. After all, he wrote the […]
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Supply Chain Finance (Part 1): How do governments finance suppliers when their own credit worthiness is in question?
February 17, 2011
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One of the first things the government seems to have accepted is that, at least in part, the answer to the problem of SME access to better channels of credit is going to have to come from somewhere other than just tapping the big banks as in the past. from the November 8th, 2010 article […]