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SourceDay: Vendor Analysis — Solution Overview, Positives/Negatives and SWOT - [PRO Content]
April 17, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann and Pierre Mitchell
The broader procurement technology market has always had a tenuous relationship with the direct procurement technology solutions. Old timers may remember SupplyWorks from the early 2000s, but it folded — and the SupplyWorks brand name now belongs to a janitorial/sanitation service provider (we won’t go down the easy joke paths on this one). More recently,…
The Bonfire Customer Experience: What Makes It Great (Sourcing SolutionMap Analysis) - [PRO Content]
February 19, 2019 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
Usability is proving the single most important killer app for the next wave of sourcing technology adoption. And providers such as Bonfire are proving that absolute feature/function capability alone is less important than providing an optimally rich user and customer experience that will maximize adoption and customer satisfaction. This is not a new strategy. Bonfire…
SirionLabs: What Makes It Great (Contract Lifecycle Management SolutionMap Analysis) - [PRO Content]
October 29, 2018 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
Just when you thought the contract lifecycle management (CLM) software market fit within a neatly defined 2x2 graph, along comes a vendor that breaks the mold, offering top functional capabilities while also redefining exactly what a CLM provider is capable of. Who is this vendor, you ask? SirionLabs. Although it is fully capable of competing…
Tradeshift: Vendor Analysis (Part 3) — Summary and Competitive Analysis - [PRO Content]
October 29, 2018 | Xavier Olivera and Jason Busch
Unlike Salesforce, Tradeshift embarked on building both an applications and platform technology business at the same time, commingling the value proposition of each to create something that it hoped would prove larger than either could be individually. Flash forward less than a decade since the provider launched, and Tradeshift has remained true to this vision.…
With Coupa Taking Aquiire, Only 2 Specialists Left Standing (Updated 2018 E-Procurement Market Forecast and Competitive Sector Implications) - [PRO Content]
October 17, 2018 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
Coupa (cleverly) has been snapping up specialized technology in the e-procurement market to further enhance its capabilities (re: Simeno and Aquiire). In doing so, it has also acted as consolidator, reducing the available e-procurement supply market for both customers and competitors. In North America today (and globally, as far as we are aware), there are…
10 Supply Chain Areas Needing Gene Therapy: Supply Network Information Models — The Missing DNA in the Digital Supply Chain (Part 4) - [PRO Content]
June 20, 2016 | Pierre Mitchell
In the previous post in this series, I began outlining 10 supply chain provider areas that could benefit from the infusion of a robust supply network information model. In this final installment in the series, I highlight the remaining provider areas, the convergence in supply chain intelligence and analytics and look at x potential providers…
An Oracle Solution Primer (Part 4): A Module-by-Module Look at PeopleSoft Procurement - [PRO Content]
May 25, 2016 | Xavier Olivera
In the first three parts of this Spend Matters PRO series on Oracle’s procurement offerings, we discussed Oracle EBS Advanced Procurement, Oracle Procurement Cloud, the capabilities of Oracle Information Discovery and Vinimaya integration with Oracle Procurement Solutions. Today, in this final installment, we examine PeopleSoft Procurement and its plans for the future. PeopleSoft, one of…
An Oracle Solution Primer (Part 3): A Module-by-Module Look at Oracle Procurement Cloud - [PRO Content]
May 23, 2016 | Xavier Olivera
The Oracle Cloud — previously known as “Oracle Fusion” — is a line of products that may have initially appeared to be a targeted bet and experiment for Oracle as it explored native SaaS development and deployment models and attempted to combine the strengths of different organic and acquired assets in a common suite. Oracle…
An Oracle Solution Primer (Part 2): A Module-by-Module Look at EBS Advanced Procurement - [PRO Content]
May 18, 2016 | Xavier Olivera
By nature of not having made targeted acquisitions in the procurement market, Oracle does not call as much attention to itself in the space as ERP rival SAP, which purchased Ariba, Fieldglass and Concur. Yet Oracle is not sitting still in the race to rapidly build out competitive capabilities through major acquisitions, but rather to…
An Oracle Solution Primer: E-Business Advanced Procurement in the Cloud Era - [PRO Content]
May 16, 2016 | Xavier Olivera
As noted in the Spend Matters Almanac, Oracle was one of the original pioneers in the e-procurement space, introducing its original iProcurement release, part of Electronic Business Suite (EBS) of integrated applications, well over a decade ago. Today, Oracle continues to offer iProcurement. But it also now delivers a cloud-based suite of applications known simply…
FusionOps: Vendor Analysis — Supply Chain Intelligence in the Cloud - [PRO Content]
April 28, 2016 | Michael Lamoureux and Jason Busch
FusionOps is a supply chain intelligence company founded in 2005 in Sunnyvale, California, to automate ERP-based business processes, such as direct materials procurement and supplier collaboration, that could not be accomplished effectively using the standalone sourcing and procurement solutions of the day. However, around 2009, the company switched directions — or “pivoted” in tech speak…
A Management Consulting and Systems Integrator Evolution — KPMG and Taulia as Archetype for a New Partnering Model - [PRO Content]
January 11, 2016 | Jason Busch
Formal partnerships and partnering strategies within the management consulting, systems integrator ecosystem and technology vendor ecosystem have taken a rather curious path with many twists and turns in the past two decades. Yet the biggest shift of all appears to be taking shape as we turn our calendar to 2016. This Spend Matters PRO research…

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Procurement technology analyst Bertrand Maltaverne joins Spend Matters from Ivalua : Bertrand Maltaverne said : Thanks Jenny, super happy and excited to be joining the team!...

Procurement technology analyst Bertrand Maltaverne joins Spend Matters from Ivalua : Jenny Draper said : So excited to be working with Bertrand; and he's on a European time zone!! Great opinions and analys...

A History of Purchasing: From “Materials Men” to Today (Part 2: 1950s - Present) : Diana said : Purchasing and Supply Chain Management are impacting company health supply, risk control, inventory,...

Finding Procurement’s Place in the Organizational Hierarchy : Macs Nsirim said : i honestly agree with this write up. i currently work as a procurement officer in an organization ...

Afternoon Coffee: PRO Unlimited launches DaaS solution; Covid pandemic highlights the need for US manufacturing; Chick-fil-A supply chain woes : John Peyton said : Thank you. Sounds like there’s more horsepower behind it than I thought then. Interesting....