About Us
History
Spend Matters was conceived of over a latte in a San Francisco coffee shop back in the summer of 2004 when two friends, Jason Busch and Kevin Brooks (formerly of Ariba), got together on one foggy morning. For those who know the history behind the original blog, Jason credits Kevin with coming up with the idea of writing a Spend Management blog back before anyone knew what RSS was. Jason ran with the concept, and the rest is RSS history.
Content and Solutions
Today, Spend Matters is more than just a blog. It includes Spend Matters Navigator, Spend Matters Toolbox, and an affiliate blog, Metal Miner, focused entirely on the metals sourcing and trading communities. In addition, Spend Matters offers a variety of programs and services aimed to help both sellers and consumers of procurement and supply chain software, services and content achieve breakthrough results. We occasionally talk to financial types as well. To discover more about our offerings, learn more about our advertising and lead generation solutions and the services we offer to providers, practitioners and investors, please get in touch.
Spend Matters Navigator - Just the Facts
Spend Matters Navigator's founding principles are simple. We believe that users need the most relevant information to help make critical business decisions. These results mush be delivered fast. And all content should be dynamic — what you find today might be replaced by more authoritative information that becomes available tomorrow. Spend Matters Navigator indexes and searches a variety of blogs, trade publications, and analyst sites. In addition, Spend Matters Navigator provides supplier search capabilities through agreements we have made with third party content sites we find most helpful in researching local and global suppliers. We'll be adding new information sources to the mix (and new types of content as well). In fact, if you have one you'd like to suggest, please drop us a line: admin@spendmatters.com.
Spend Matters Navigator would not be possible without the talents of Frank Russo, who has served as its unofficial COO and CTO since its inception (we're not terribly formal with titles around here). Frank has a long history in the procurement and content space, having served as an executive with Thomas Global, MFG.com and other leaders in the sector. Today, Frank leads the operational and technical components of Spend Matters Navigator. There are numerous other folks behind Spend Matters Navigator from technical, content and business process perspectives as well who we can't thank enough for their efforts.
Spend Matters Navigator is built on Siderean, a leading indexing, search and navigation platform. What makes our approach and technology platform different from other search tools and indexes? We believe that seeing and understanding relationships between information enables users to discover and participate in the information flow. Unlike search, which is all about precision and recall, and also unlike static or other navigation types, which support fixed relationships and drill down only, Spend Matters Navigator identifies relationships on the fly and allows users to pivot around the information set. Try it and let us know your impressions. We hope you'll see immediately why Spend Matters Navigator is not just another search engine or content portal!
Spend Matters was conceived of over a latte in a San Francisco coffee shop back in the summer of 2004 when two friends, Jason Busch and Kevin Brooks (formerly of Ariba), got together on one foggy morning. For those who know the history behind the original blog, Jason credits Kevin with coming up with the idea of writing a Spend Management blog back before anyone knew what RSS was. Jason ran with the concept, and the rest is RSS history.
Content and Solutions
Today, Spend Matters is more than just a blog. It includes Spend Matters Navigator, Spend Matters Toolbox, and an affiliate blog, Metal Miner, focused entirely on the metals sourcing and trading communities. In addition, Spend Matters offers a variety of programs and services aimed to help both sellers and consumers of procurement and supply chain software, services and content achieve breakthrough results. We occasionally talk to financial types as well. To discover more about our offerings, learn more about our advertising and lead generation solutions and the services we offer to providers, practitioners and investors, please get in touch.
Spend Matters Navigator - Just the Facts
Spend Matters Navigator's founding principles are simple. We believe that users need the most relevant information to help make critical business decisions. These results mush be delivered fast. And all content should be dynamic — what you find today might be replaced by more authoritative information that becomes available tomorrow. Spend Matters Navigator indexes and searches a variety of blogs, trade publications, and analyst sites. In addition, Spend Matters Navigator provides supplier search capabilities through agreements we have made with third party content sites we find most helpful in researching local and global suppliers. We'll be adding new information sources to the mix (and new types of content as well). In fact, if you have one you'd like to suggest, please drop us a line: admin@spendmatters.com.
Spend Matters Navigator would not be possible without the talents of Frank Russo, who has served as its unofficial COO and CTO since its inception (we're not terribly formal with titles around here). Frank has a long history in the procurement and content space, having served as an executive with Thomas Global, MFG.com and other leaders in the sector. Today, Frank leads the operational and technical components of Spend Matters Navigator. There are numerous other folks behind Spend Matters Navigator from technical, content and business process perspectives as well who we can't thank enough for their efforts.
Spend Matters Navigator is built on Siderean, a leading indexing, search and navigation platform. What makes our approach and technology platform different from other search tools and indexes? We believe that seeing and understanding relationships between information enables users to discover and participate in the information flow. Unlike search, which is all about precision and recall, and also unlike static or other navigation types, which support fixed relationships and drill down only, Spend Matters Navigator identifies relationships on the fly and allows users to pivot around the information set. Try it and let us know your impressions. We hope you'll see immediately why Spend Matters Navigator is not just another search engine or content portal!
