November 1, 2013
When I was speaking before what I can only describe as being a great audience at Virginia’s Forum 2013 earlier this week – it has to be something in the water there because these people are remarkable in terms of their enthusiasm for procurement and desire for information – I touched on the decline of […]
February 22, 2012
Talking with an ever increasing number of both new as well as long established software/ERP vendors within the context of the cloud and the accelerated mobile reality of conducting business in a global marketplace, an interesting trend is emerging in terms of how these organizations are coming to a proverbial fork in the road relative […]
September 21, 2011
When COUPA asked me to write a multi-part series on the history of spend management and the evolution from traditional ERP players to the new Titans of SaaS as I have called them, I never honestly considered nor anticipated the level of reader response. I never do, as I have always written about those subjects […]
June 15, 2011
Next month, Rosslyn Analytics, which has the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of cloud-based spend data services, will unveil another chapter in its rapid growth. This announcement will be a “game changer” for organizations seeking complete control over their spend data when they want with little to no support necessary from vendors. Whenever I read statements […]
Is Amazon The New Oracle or How The Emergence of The B2C World Marks The Official End of The ERP Era by Jon Hansen
September 12, 2014
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Over the years I have written a great deal about why “traditional” ERP-based procurement solutions have, with a predictability that is almost as certain as the sun rising every morning, failed to deliver the expected results. One of the main reasons is user adoption – or the lack thereof. Back in 2007, when Microsoft made yet another […]