by Robert Solomon | Mar 30, 2016 | B2B Software, Indirect Spend, Supply Chain Finance
I only attended part of the first day of the Global Procurement Tech Summit, but in that time, I made several observations not included in my first two posts on the Summit which you can find here and here. Procurement technology is a great topic for a conference. It...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 22, 2016 | B2B Software, Ecosystem, Electronic Payments, Indirect Spend, Supply Chain Automation |
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the inaugural Global Procurement Technology Summit sponsored by ISM and Spend Matters in Baltimore. Andrew Karpie from Spend Matters and I spoke, in part, on the difference between networks and platforms in supply chain...
by Robert Solomon | Sep 29, 2015 | B2B Software, Enterprise Software, Indirect Spend, Procure to Pay |
I had become bored with eProcurement. The technology was more than 15 years old and the whole category, along with related categories, were well along in their “hype cycle” according to Gartner (my emphasis added). Ariba, had been purchased by SAP, Oracle...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 30, 2015 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Ecosystem, Electronic Payments, Supply Chain Finance
I’ve never really known what to make of Tradeshift. Tradeshift started in Europe towards the end of my tenure at Ariba (2010). I never really ran into Tradeshift much, except that I admired their ability to generate a lot of press for what seemed like it...
by Robert Solomon | Apr 7, 2015 | B2B Software, Enterprise Software, Procure to Pay
I was not planning any more posts on Procure-to-Pay suites, but then Gartner issued their Magic Quadrant on the market. I felt compelled to revisit the topic in one, very simple way: through an investor’s lens. It is rare that so many key players in a...
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