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The Beginning of the end for SciQuest? by Jon Hansen
Subject: Dartmouth College’s Exit From The SciQuest Marketplace Importance: High Hello, This communication is going out to all SciQuest catalog suppliers/providers for Dartmouth College: Please be advised that as of May 31, 2015, Dartmouth College will no longer be purchasing from your catalogs via the SciQuest Marketplace. Instead, our shoppers will access your direct internet catalogs to […]
What does the departure of SciQuest CFO really mean? by Jon Hansen
June 2, 2015
Baseball is a great game. In fact it is America’s pastime. As a result, I would like to view the recent news out of SciQuest regarding the departure of their CFO within the context of a batter coming up to the plate. For those unfamiliar with the game, the batter gets an opportunity to hit […]
SciQuest Update: What’s Old Is New Again . . . At Least In Higher Ed? by Jon Hansen
March 6, 2015
In my February 24th post Getting the facts from SciQuest is Like Waiting for Guffman, I shared with you both my efforts and challenges in obtaining clarification from SciQuest regarding their press release in which they announced that “The company added 17 new customers during the quarter.” Generally speaking, I am not a big fan of […]
Are investment bankers and Wall Street bad for business? by Jon Hansen
November 29, 2014
In what many consider to be a controversial article titled The Myth of Ariba, a former executive for the company said the following; “Ariba was a real company with a real product that got swept up in its own hype, with unfortunate consequences,” and that “Ariba was basically a fraud . . . creating [the […]
Call from investment banking firm regarding SciQuest post telling by Jon Hansen
November 27, 2014
Similar to when I received a call from investment banking firm Craig-Hallum regarding my post that the Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace or “OECM” had decided to drop Ariba and eat $20 million in the process, the conversation I had with a representative from an investment banking firm shortly after I had posted my article on SciQuest, was equally […]
SciQuest “Sales” Execution Troubles? by Jon Hansen
November 26, 2014
I appreciate your analysis from an external point of view and its very valid but reads like talking points from the CEO and Marketing. Now let me give you an insiders view of the truth. It’s NOT a sales execution issue, that’s the CEO’s version of creating a fall guy to mask the product development […]
Is the acquisition cup half full or half empty: Xchanging and SciQuest One Year Later by Jon Hansen
October 29, 2014
A year ago this past September 20th, I wrote the post titled Is the acquisition cup half full or half empty: A tale of two takeovers! In it I talked about the stark differences – at least they were stark to me – between the Xchanging acquisition of Chicago-based MM4, and the purchase of CombineNet […]
Is Duke ready to make a move away from SciQuest? by Jon Hansen
August 26, 2014
One of the great things about being the rebel in the procurement world is that you become the clearing house for industry news simply because your are viewed as being neutral. In short, people are more inclined to tell you things because they know that their confidences can be trusted, and that you are going […]
Why press releases should have a “shelf life” or how SciQuest has taken the practice to a new low by Jon Hansen
June 11, 2014
For those who have followed this blog for any length of time, you already know that I have never been a big fan of press releases. I have always considered them to be little more than contrived exercises in self-promotion that generally make infomercials look like legitimate sources of real news. Within the above context, […]
Procurement Insights 
June 11, 2015
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