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SAP just changed the game if not the industry with their planned acquisition of SuccessFactors
December 6, 2011
I guess that it is true about Christmas being the time for miracles . . . As you know readers I have been one of the most vociferous critics of traditional ERP players such as SAP over the years for a variety of reasons. This includes the abundance of colossal failures of implementations in both the […]
Dangerous Supply Chain Myths Revisited (Part 5): Talent Attraction and Retention – An Exercise in Platitudes?
August 19, 2011
Each day for the next seven days I will be posting parts 1 through 7 from what is considered to be one of the most popular series in the Procurement Insights Blog’s history. The Dangerous Supply Chain Myths series was based on my review of the ISM, CAPS and A.T. Kearney Report that was originally […]
Access to spend data is not the same as access to meaningful intelligence
March 29, 2011
NOTE: The following is today’s post from the Rosslyn Analytics Blog. Governments are significant purchasers of goods and services and these markets represent huge opportunities for international trade. Measuring government procurement for a large number of countries, in a consistent manner, is not a trivial task and careful attention must be paid to ensure that […]
Cross platform compatibility and data extraction/sharing pre-dates ERP applications
March 15, 2011
The following is today’s post from the Rosslyn Analytics Blog regarding their recent release of the RA.PID Extract for SAP solution which promises targeted, accurate one-click extraction in 60 seconds. Sometimes certain things remind you of just how long you have been around the high tech world such as when Rosslyn Analytics recently announced the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Will the real Daffy Duck(s) please stand up!
January 21, 2011
“Let me explain it to you this way Jon,” offered one of my lecturers in a course I was taking . . . “it’s like you are a passenger on the Titanic and after striking the iceberg you run to the Captain’s deck to let him know what happened and discover that the Captain is […]
Dinosaurs, Meteors and a Fork in the Road Awaits Us in 2011
December 30, 2010
When I was once again contacted by the Shared Services and Outsourcing Network asking me about my predictions for 2011 I must admit that my thoughts immediately turned to the significant changes in the eProcurement market landscape and how this might influence organizations in terms of their approach regarding the contemplation of outsourcing as a […]
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From Mobile Business Intelligence to Synchronized Execution: So you can take it with you after all!
January 31, 2012
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“Gartner expects that 33 percent of BI functionality will be consumed via mobile devices by 2013.” from the June 29th, 2011 article “Business Intelligence and Mobile Devices Will Change Supply Chain Management” by Herman Mehling One of the first things that comes to mind when I hear the term mobile Business Intelligence or “BI” are […]