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Fortune’s Adam Lashinksy asks the question; Who is Oracle’s True Competition? by Jon Hansen
October 18, 2013
In what was a short but powerful post on LinkedIn, Fortune Magazine’s Sr. Editor at Large Adam Lashinsky posed a very interesting question; Who is Oracle’s True Competition? It wasn’t that the question in and of itself was ground-shaking journalism but, the reason or reasons behind his asking the question in the first place. During […]
Did industry analysts turn a blind eye to long-standing problems? by Jon Hansen
June 25, 2013
BPM estimates the dollar loss at “tens of billions” each year as a result of obsolete, redundant and unused software . . . The court fights that preceded word Monday that Oracle and PeopleSoft finally agreed to merge shed some light on software companies’ knowledge of enterprise software’s failings. The gems unearthed include this Microsoft […]
Why Mickey North Rizza can’t go home again . . . or can she?
June 21, 2013
In Part 2 of yesterday’s post in which I wrote about Jason Busch’s proclamation that he is moving on regarding his “thinking,” I was posed with an interesting question. If after spending years with a service provider, a journalist/analyst may lack the necessary objectivity to “effectively” cover the market, what are my thoughts if this […]
More than 6 years after my Dangerous Myths post, Jason Busch admits that he kind of got it wrong (Part 1 of 2) by Jon Hansen
June 19, 2013
“I spent five years at FreeMarkets before launching Spend Matters and covering the market as a journalist and analyst . . . I’m a guilty party in terms of reverse auctions and foisting them on suppliers . . . I am also a proponent of them as well, but as you’ll see in our thinking […]
Assimilating Innovation (Part 2 of 3): Does Steve Sabol bias govern industry bloggers coverage? by Jon Hansen
April 15, 2013
In 1969 Steve Sabol produced a 22-minute review of Super Bowl III for NFL Films. In his pro-National Football League stance, Sabol focused more on the sore-armed Johnny Unitas’s valiant effort to rally Baltimore than on how the Jets made good on Joe Namath’s victory guarantee and beat the Colts, 16-7. Sabol, the president of […]
The First Procurement Insights Post . . . Five Years Later Were My Observations Right?
October 26, 2012
Editor’s Note: As we quickly approach my 1,000th Procurement Insights blog post – we are with today’s submission at 995, I thought that I would share with you the very first post from May 18th, 2007. The topic that I tackled was the movement away from ERP/IT-centric e-procurement initiatives and the effect on buyers, sellers […]
Is this the beginning of the end of the improbable long run of “one hit” Larry?
May 24, 2012
It is no secret to my regular readers that I am not a big fan of Oracle’s Larry Ellison. The origins of my disenchantment go all the back to the vendor’s early days when Ellison was forced to lay off approximately 10 percent of the company’s workforce due to questionable accounting practices. Specifically Oracle sales […]
With VA procurement the level of service and care veterans receive should be the primary focus . . .
March 13, 2012
When organizations seek to drive efficiency and savings through the implementation of an automated procurement system, the impact can often be lost in terms of calculated returns and measurable process improvements. This of course is reflected in the consistently high rate of initiative failures to achieve the expected results in both the private and public […]
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SAP: No Longer an ERP Company? by Jon Hansen
November 1, 2013
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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 […]