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Beyond Spend Influence: Enabling Procurement’s Emerging Roles in Business Transformation (Part 2) — Empathy, Alignment, Mission, Brand and Procurement Service Delivery - [PRO Content]
September 3, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
In the first installment of this Spend Matters PRO series, we kicked off our analysis of how progressive organizations are influencing spend and stakeholders at a deeper level beyond traditional sourcing influence. In this next edition, we’ll dive into some strategies for deeper and more meaningful engagement with stakeholders, and some examples from some progressive…
Spendata: Rewriting Spend Analysis from the Ground Up - [PRO Content]
July 16, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
Two years ago, we introduced you to Spendata (in our PRO Vendor Analysis Part 1 and Part 2 series) as one of the newest entrants to the spend analysis space, founded by some of the oldest veterans in the market. They've been designing and building analytics solutions for over two decades, and have already defined…
aPriori: Product Cost Management tool spotlight (Part 2) — Use Cases, Depth of Solution, ROI, Summary Analysis - [PRO Content]
June 9, 2020 | Eric Hiller
Part 2 of this Spend Matters PRO series will look at an array of use cases for aPriori’s capabilities in product cost management. It also will include profiles of who should use the solution, the depth and breadth of the solution, how quickly aPriori can return value, and a summary analysis. For full disclosure, I…
Rosslyn Data Technologies: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
April 8, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
In Part 1 of the Spend Matters PRO Vendor Snapshot series, we detailed the history and solution capabilities of Rosslyn Data Technologies, one of the more distinctive spend analytics vendors in the procurement space. A granddaddy of the sector, it was one of the first self-serve vendors, first cloud vendors and first public providers in…
Rosslyn Data Technologies: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background, Solution Overview, Selection Checklist - [PRO Content]
April 7, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
In this three-part Spend Matters PRO Vendor Snapshot, you'll see that Rosslyn Data Technologies is a granddaddy in the best-of-breed spend analytics space. With all of the acquisitions, re-brandings, mergers, re-platformings and a recent name change from Rosslyn Analytics, there are few standalone best-of-breed providers left in the space that have been around for over…
AppZen: Vendor Analysis — Strengths/Weaknesses, Company SWOT, Competitors, Selection Checklist - [PRO Content]
March 18, 2020 | Nick Heinzmann
The term “audit” usually implies a reactive activity. When something goes wrong, a business conducts an audit to find out what happened, then corrects its procedures to prevent the error from recurring. This approach is, of course, not ideal. Rather than spend time and energy retroactively correcting a problem, taking a proactive, preventative approach to…
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: Sievo — find the risks hiding in your data, prioritize and take action - [PRO Content]
March 16, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
In our response to the coronavirus outbreak, this Spend Matters PRO series is continuing its mission to examine selected technology providers that professionals in procurement, finance and supply chain organizations should consider to reduce, and even mitigate, coronavirus supply risk — and then recover as fast as possible when sanity returns to the world. The…
Suplari: Vendor Analysis (Part 3) — SWOT, Competitors, Selection Guide, Analysis - [PRO Content]
March 13, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
Suplari faces significant competition from multiple market segments: S2P/P2P/S2C suites, best-of-breed spend analysis vendors, and generic best-in-class analytic and business intelligence (BI) solutions that are adding in a few spend/supplier-centric reports and touting themselves as solutions for back-office sourcing/procurement professionals. It's a very noisy, messy space, and it can be very confusing for an analytic…
Suplari: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
March 12, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
As indicated in Part 1, Suplari was formed to get the relevant purchasing data out of siloed enterprise systems and into the hands of procurement professionals who needed it to make decisions. Billing itself as “AI-Driven Analytics for Modern Procurement Teams,” Suplari was formed with the goal to use all of the available, disparate enterprise…
Suplari: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background, Solution Overview, Selection Checklist - [PRO Content]
March 11, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
This three-part Spend Matters Vendor Snapshot series will give an overview of the spend analytics vendor Suplari, examine its strengths and weakness, and provide a comparison with its competitors in the procurement technology market. Billing itself as “AI-Driven Analytics for Modern Procurement Teams,” Suplari was formed to get the relevant purchasing data out of siloed…
Tech selection Q&A: ‘There are a lot of people throwing terms around and don’t know what the hell they’re talking about’
March 4, 2020 | Spend Matters Brand Studio
In our look at how companies do tech selections, some firms cast a wide need to see what the market has to offer and some go hunting for specific business needs. Versatex, a spend management firm that needed a spend analytics solution, did its tech selection using a rigorous set of requirements and it took…
How does McKinsey’s acquisition of Orpheus affect Sievo and the spend analytics solution landscape? (Part 1: Background)
February 21, 2020 | Jason Busch
I’ve long been a fan of the spend analytics firm Sievo (going back to when my friend Fabrice Saporito was helping drive its commercialization as CEO in the formative years). But in a world where procurement and spend analytics technology ages fast, constant investment in R&D to drive solution improvement is key. You’ll need to…

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“Ariba Doesn’t Have Customers, It Has Prisoners” : Steve Saxon said : Freemarket is a similar firm that buys goods online with supplier agreements locked up. No problem a...

Afternoon Coffee: Amid COVID-19, the services PMI grows slower in August; Unemployment claims fall this week; Autonomous trucking gains ground : Kevin Melton said : I wonder whats the cost of autonomous fleets and people being replaced. It dosnt seem like it would ...

Re-evaluating the cash conversion cycle in the COVID-19 era : Dino Solari said : NOTHING WILL BE LIKE BEFORE Impact of the virus corona (COVID-19) on the DSO A simple question. If...

Re-evaluating the cash conversion cycle in the COVID-19 era : Dino Solari said : se il fatturato nel post covid è crollato e i pagamenti hanno subito rallentamenti come si fa a calc...