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Procurement Insights Launches Aperçus des achats
With our global audience base growing rapidly I guess one could say that it was only a matter of time before we expanded the Procurement Insights brand into other languages. Today we are pleased to announce that we have launched the new Aperçus des achats blog as a means of better connecting with our French […]
2010 Will Be A Tough Year to Top . . .
January 8, 2011
Recently the good people at WordPress, who are the gracious hosts for the PI Social Media Network’s stable of blogs . . . I guess that stable would be the right word, provided a rather exceptional report on individual blog performances for the past year. This was a great service on a number of levels, […]
2005 SR&ED Related Report on eProcurement Software Industry Tells An Interesting Story 5 Years Later
January 6, 2011
The major ERP companies are starting to move “down market,” approaching firms as small as $50 million in revenues. These slimmed down versions are of necessity horizontal products that either require significant customization or that the client changes their business processes to meet the application’s needs. While much of the larger market has been approached […]
The Two New Books in 2011 That Will Forever Change Public Sector Procurement!
January 4, 2011
On the PI Window on Business’ second show back in April 2009 I welcomed along with McEvoy Galbraeth and Anne Phillips, Stephen Bauld who at the time was Vice President for the Ontario General Contractors Association and author of the books “Leadership Or The Lack Thereof” and “The Municipal Procurement Handbook (two editions).” For those […]
2010 in review: WordPress gives the Procurement Insights Blog a WOW Rating!
January 2, 2011
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers In 2010, there were 268 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 722 posts. There were 106 pictures uploaded, taking up […]
UK Government Puts An End To The Gravy Days of Big Budget IT Initiatives: Another Nail for Large ERP Vendors?!
December 3, 2010
Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, speaking at a meeting attended by 31 major government suppliers including BT, Hewlett Packard, IBM and CapGemini, claimed that large-scale bespoke IT systems – many of which have gone significantly over budget in the past – would henceforth be replaced by less expensive and “off the shelf” offerings. from UK […]
Coming in January 2011 The 49th Parallel Forum . . . Enter If You Dare!
December 2, 2010
The 49th Parallel Forum is a 60 Minute Show on the Blog Talk Radio Network that will tackle head on the most thought-provoking and controversial topics of the day in which a viewpoint from an American perspective and a viewpoint from a Canadian perspective will be debated with A List guests from the world […]
Jury Orders SAP to Pay Oracle $1.3 Billion: A Discovery Channel Special?
November 24, 2010
This past Sunday on Discovery Channel the first in a series of shows on dinosaurs aired much to the delight of my daughter who, like any child her age, has an active interest (and imagination) regarding these mammoth beasts. In the opening segment, the show focused on the day that the cataclysmic chain reaction of a […]
Analyst’s pessimistic prediction regarding SAP prompts the question . . . Are ERP Vendors down for the count?!
November 18, 2010
“On that note, it’s time to take a battering ram to European business software giant SAP, it seems. “SAP will continue to battle it out on the sales front, but the reality is that business intelligence (from the Business Objects acquisition) is the feeding tube keeping the old man alive,” it snipes. “As customers contemplate […]
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