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Are enterprise software vendors becoming the new telephone companies of the cloud computing age?
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 […]
Gartner’s Take on Cloud Contracting (Part 1, and probably the last in this series): All Roads Lead Back To Larry!
September 30, 2011
You know you live long enough on the earth you start to develop an instinct, a sense when something isn’t quite right. It’s similar to that carton of milk in your fridge where you are around or perhaps a day after the expiration date. The milk doesn’t smell bad, it just has a whiff of […]
Emancipating Your IT Department Through Web-Based Spend Intelligence
March 4, 2011
Viador Business Intelligence, Reporting and Analytical solutions are entirely web-based and can be hosted in a local environment or in the Cloud. We bring over 15 years of Business Intelligence and Analytics expertise to business reporting and analysis. from the Home Page of the Viador website References to Spend Intelligence seems to come up from every direction, every day […]
iTunes Intelligence: ERP data extraction the Rosslyn Analytics way!
February 22, 2011
This is due to the fact that vertically integrated supply chains are often inflexible in terms of responding to the diverse stakeholder dynamics that are reshaping the ways in which organizations buy and sell in the emerging global economy. In a 2002 article Forrester Research’s Navi Radjou linked the lack of flexibility to the inherent […]
Larry ‘s Ellison Nightmare About SaaS Vendor Zombies (UPDATE)
February 21, 2011
POST UPDATE (October 27th, 2011): Oracle’s Larry Ellison used to have nightmares about cloud-based SaaS Zombies. With the purchase of RightNow Technologies is he now one of them! Over the next few weeks we will be profiling leaders from the business world who have and continue to leave a indelible impression on the face of Corporate […]
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 […]
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 […]
Procurement Insights 
VA’s decision to stop using reverse auctions is surprising . . . right? Not if self-preservation is their main objective
March 8, 2012
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Breaking News Update: Bloomberg’s Kathleen Miller reported earlier this week that VA Probes $42 Million in Awards Questioned by Congress. One of the issues is that “an agency employee processed more than 1,500 awards just under a monetary threshold that would require public disclosure of the contracts.” Now I am not suggesting that the use […]