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, [...]
So, this is where Hubwoo is ending 2006 : 4,6% growth, 32M€ revenue and… a 500K€ first-time positive EBITDA for the whole year! Moreover is Alain Andréoli, CEO of Hubwoo, announcing a black EBIT for 2007 and looking at what Alain said and did (35M€ massive impairment, cleaning-up all financial negative weight) so far , [...]
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 [...]
The BuyIT Best Practice Network is an independent group with a mission to “help organisations realise the business benefits from Information & Communications Technology by identifying and promoting best practice in e-business”. BuyIT has published eProcurement and eBusiness best practice guidelines since 1996 as part of their remit to identify and promote best practice. Through [...]
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 [...]
Every year The Gartner is releasing “Hype Cycle” reports for different trendy IT models. With regard to SaaS, the Gartner has issued its report “Hype Cycle for Software as a Service (SaaS)” in August 2006 and reveals that eSourcing has reached maturity while eProcurement (Procurement Transaction Management) is still… “on the rise”: Hype Cycle helps [...]
You may know the Sourcing Innovation blog from Michael Lamoureux but what about his Sourcing Resource Guide page and its 100 TOP links related to procurement or sourcing? You will find there an impressive list of links to analyst group, publication, white paper, events, vendor and blogger websites (mostly from US). If the look and [...]
This recurrent (famous?) topic was on the agenda of the US CPO’s summit and you can find the executive-outcome here. As titled by Purchasing.com, where I found the article, “the debate continues”, i.e. there is not really an answer. From my perspective and based on real customer experience, I would say that ‘on demand’ (my [...]
72%. Do you believe that? Ok, it’s not done yet and we all know that the usage of a framework contract is not as easy at it seems, accross a wide organisation . This means anyway that the average price for PC consumable has been cut by 72%, half of it coming from an “exciting [...]
On a quaterly basis, Forrester is issuing a leading-vendor ranking on several subjects and more specifically about contract management, an important software piece in the e-sourcing and e-procument battlefield. Those leaders, eager to let it know are providing those reports on their website. So, enjoy reading this one, found on Oracle site, Top 10 Contract [...]
Most of the big eProcurement players are struggling for critical mass and attractive pricing. Very few are already cash positive and if so, they have still a long way ahead to recover their initial investment. Those company might not appreciate so much this entrepreurial open source pitch from Dave Stephen, CEO and co-founder of COUPA. [...]
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