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Unless you’ve been to some of the procurement-focused events in recent years, you’d be forgiven for thinking IBM were keeping a relatively low profile, given […]

Last year, consumer research firm Mintel predicted the UK would spend £419 million on Halloween, up by 5% from the year before, on sweets/chocolate, costumes […]

Back to our best of 2017 articles, and two together that describe the last days of Emptoris, once one of the giants of the procurement […]

We heard yesterday that Justin Sadler-Smith is taking up a new role at SAP Ariba next week, as Head of the SAP Ariba UK business. […]

So our pub debate last Thursday went very well, with around 45-50 people in our private room at The Clarence pub in Whitehall - enough […]

We featured here the news that the Emptoris product line is to be gradually phased out by IBM over coming years and IBM / SAP […]

Rumours have been swirling around for a few weeks now. We wrote here about IBM Emptoris and stories of its demise or sale. But yesterday […]

If we go back six or seven years to the early days of Spend Matters in Europe, BravoSolution and Emptoris were two of our first […]

Here is a picture from the BravoSolution Real World Sourcing session (before the nice lunch and wine arrived, actually) led by Guy Allen and titled […]

We had the pleasure recently of speaking to Ross Mandiwall of IBM. He’s an 18-year long-term procurement professional with the firm, having worked his way […]

One of the indicators of a good conference in total or at individual speech level is when you get some "nuggets" that make you think […]

  A number of years ago, IBM acquired Emptoris, a sourcing and supplier management solution, and Big Blue continues to serve the market with this […]