Here’s this week’s recap of what happened over on Spend Matters US.
No doubt you’ve heard about Uber’s $18.2-billion valuation. Jason Busch and Richard Lee asks, “What really drives valuation for technology companies these days?”
Taras Berezowsky combined SAP HANA with The Simpsons in a video parody. Pierre Mitchell supplied the lyrics.
Whether you like to indulge in Schadenfreude or you’re just the thorough type to extract lessons from diverse sources, this new report breaks down the causes of the U.S. government’s IT procurement failure and gives recommendations that do not require a new election.
And yesterday Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell reported from Boston, where they attended OpenText’s analyst day:
- OpenText – Absorbing and Putting GXS and Networks at the Core
- SAP and OpenText: Best Friends Forever?
Finally, here is all of our coverage on the Selectica acquisition of Iasta in one convenient list:
- Selectica and Iasta – Exploring Core Capabilities and Technology Components Today
- Selectica and Iasta to Merge: Stealth IPO for Sourcing Provider, Suite Expansion for Contract Management Leader
- Selectica and Iasta – Mapping the Future of Procurement, Contract Management, and Customer Engagement
- The Suite Sound of Inevitability: On Iasta/Selectica and Source-to-Pay Generally
Close with a music video? Close with a music video. The Australian band Cloud Control performed at Chicago’s Metro in late May. This is not that performance.
This is the song “Gold Canary", not Chicago’s Metro but rather a different Metro, July 2010:
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