Right, it’s only my point of view. Anyone can think differently and believe that the value of the merger lies on the synergies of the 2 companies, but I don’t myself, motivated by following arguments: – The functional coverage of the 2 apps offered by Ariba and Procuri is more or less similar, – The [...]
You can read below the article published by BUSINESS WIRE and announcing the merger I releaved to you a couple of weeks ago on this blog: CORRECTING and REPLACING Supply Chain Leaders CorMine and Perfect Commerce Announce Merger Newly Combined Company Brings Customers World-Class SaaS Sourcing and Procurement Solutions; Drives Efficiencies and Cost-Savings that Outpace [...]
Which eSourcing vendor is the most popular, enjoying the highest online traffic? I’ve decided to look at Alexa – for a second time – and compare most well known eSourcing vendors’ traffic ranking. Below is the outcome. You have to be aware that some of those Vendors have different platforms available for their customers instead [...]
I’ve fished this news fresh from today. It has been posted here on cc-hubwoo website. The news went fast around as I found it initially on SpendMatters a couple of hours ago, thanks to Jason Busch. Before sharing some of my feelings and first thoughts on the face of it, let me remind you cc-hubwoo’s [...]
Supplier Enablement is one of my favorite topic. To my eyes, it goes much beyond a deployment of a e-catalogue-based procurement-process and ‘flirt’ with the ‘good-old-magic’ “plug and play extended-enterprise” concept, which is the end-game of successful B2B ASP/SAAS applications. Andrew Bartolini, research director at Aberdeen, just released a new report about Supplier Enablement (with [...]
Lately and following his 25-page Forrester Wave™ Vendor report for Q2 2007, Andrew Bartels updated his views about top procurement providers: Ariba remains the Goliath of the market, while competition is getting closer, succeeding in developing differentiators, and sometimes over-exceeding Ariba’s performance on specific functionality, product categories or sectors. Not a surprise really for me, [...]
From my perspective, yes…but not now. IBX, ranked among top innovators in 2006 by the prestigious Supply & Demand Chain Executive, has acquired Portum last year (2006), you may know or remind. Since then, I didn’t notice any major achievement on that side, apart from – of course – some announcement of client acquisition, but [...]
Congrats and thanks to Tim Minahan (nominated in the 2007 Pros to know, master of the popular SupplyExcellence blog and former Aberdeen analyst), the initiator and recent Procuri-sponsored author of a free e-book called “The 100 Greatest Supply Management Tips of All Time! : Practical Approaches for Supply and Contract Management Success”. Tim populated 100 [...]
I’ve been lately contacted by 2 eSourcing companies looking for promoting their pricing levels as I was complaining about the lack of transparency of the market. The pricing information I got is not detailed, nor did I get specifics about the financial and operational health of those companies but, as I thought it can be [...]
“Spend Analysis, A European perspective”. That’s the official title for this one hour free webcast sponsored by one (THE?) spend-analytics market leader Zicus, and below is a short description of the topics to be covered: “In this one hour long webcast, one of the leading thought leaders in the Spend Management sector Andrew Bartels, VP [...]
Andrew Bartolini from the Aberdeen Group just informed me about the availability of “The Advanced Sourcing and Negotiation Benchmark Report: The Art and Science of the Deal“, free for my readership to access until the end of march 2007. Here is the link to access the report. I presented the objectives of this survey in [...]
Since the merger of Synerdeal and Trade2B into Synertrade(? – question mark, yes, because when you look at the Management team…it looks more like an acquisition from the Germans) , the less one can say is that Synertrade stayed very quiet and low profile, which is not a positive sign indeed: no press release since [...]
cc-hubwoo confirmed 2 days ago its great ambitions for 2007 but needs more cash to turn its vision into reality and reach profitability. In a press release dated 16th of January cc-hubwoo (world’s leading provider for on-demand electronic procurement solutions and supplier network management with 60 worldwide buying corporation as customers) announced the launched of [...]
End of November 2006, The Forrester offered a teleconference to give its views of the worldwide market for eProcurement, eSourcing, contract life-cycle management (CLM), spend analysis, electronic invoice presentment and payment (EIPP), and supplier networks for 2006-2008. The analysis, presented by Andrew Bartels Vice President Forrester Research, is based on 60 leading vendors You can [...]
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