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Gartner’s First Integrated S2P Report on The Evolving Landscape of Source-to-Pay Solutions

February 1, 2024

Here is Gartner's first integrated Source-to-Pay (S2P) Magic Quadrant.

Titans 2023 Installment #2: Hidden In Plain Site – The Case of the Missing Ninja Dojo

October 17, 2023

“Quiet and mysterious, ninja warriors are known for their strength, skill and stealth. Turn your back for just a moment, and a ninja might catch you by surprise! What is it about ninjas that’s so fascinating?” – Chicago Public Library A Necessary Preamble In 2009, Procurement Insights did a series of interviews and a panel […]

Forrester SVM Wave, a holistic take on Source to Pay: Specialist vendors break out from the ERP pack

March 25, 2022

(Forrester’s SVM (Supplier Value Management) essentially corroborates to “Source to Pay”, which is the more commonly used terminology amongst procurement practitioners). From an analysts’ research point of view, the Source to Pay segment has had a huge strategic coverage void. While most analyst firms produced reports on specific parts of the S2P cycle (e.g., S2C, […]

Gartner P2P MQ 2021 is a great equalizer; AI is the key differentiator

October 28, 2021

Review of the Gartner P2P Magic Quadrant 2021

Ivalua’s MS Office Approach To Acquisitions

November 3, 2017

Energized and rapid is the best way that I can describe this morning’s interview with Ivalua CMO Alex Saric regarding the company’s recent acquisition of Directworks. In fact, I would be hard-pressed to remember any other segment that had a similar sprint-like pace to today’s show. That said, it was also one of […]

Who Is Bob Solomon @bsolomon10?

July 20, 2017

I inadvertently stumbled upon a blog post in my email by Bob Solomon titled The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement, Q2 2017. Usually, when I receive a Magic Quadrant or Forrester Wave notification I dismiss it as most of my readers consider such things to be either industry propaganda or as one so eloquently put it; “a paid infomercial.” Although […]

Friday Musings: Why Reese’s would approve of PROACTIS’ Acquisition of Perfect Commerce

July 7, 2017

By now you have already heard the news that UK-based PROACTIS is acquiring US-based Perfect Commerce. Besides providing further evidence that we are at the very beginning of a looming M&A upswing, it is also a sign that these companies have come to the realization that rather than attempting to penetrate new global markets […]

A $70 Million KKR Investment And A Series Of Big Client Wins: Ivalua SVP Joshi Tells All

April 27, 2017

Today at Noon ET I will be joined by Ivalua’s SVP Sales and Business Development Amol Joshi to talk about the upstart company’s big win with the State of Arizona. Ironically, the use of the term upstart is somewhat deceiving, because Ivalua has been around for 15 years. The moniker, however, is appropriate because the win with […]

The Ivalua tail wags the CGI dog

April 17, 2017

On the 26th of April, I will be interviewing Ivalua’s SVP Sales and Business Development Amol Joshi for the PI Window on The World radio show. The segment will air on the 27th of April at 12:00 Noon. In preparation for the interview with Joshi, I had the opportunity to talk with him earlier today […]

Ivalua WINS Arizona, but will the award be challenged?

April 7, 2017

“Ivalua is excited to be awarded the business for Source-to-Pay solution along with our partner KPMG. State of Arizona Procurement and IT teams have been leaders in procurement transformation and have been using procurement technology for the last 8 years. As the State looks to start the next leg of their transformation journey, a modern, […]