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SAP SRM, another brick from the wall: The contrast could not be more stark between yesterday's launch of Coupa's Amazon-hosted SaaS e-procurement system and SAP's decision on Friday to cancel the upcoming release of its spend management product. Another beneficiary of SAP's misfortune is SaaS vendor Ketera, which earlier this month added a new supplier management application...; Tags: SAP AG, Amazon.com Inc., Wall, Coupa, Ketera, Amazon Web Services, Service Level Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), It Operations, It service Management, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-10-23
Ketera tames the supply chain's long tail: Ketera tames the supply chain's long tailIs Ketera Missing the Big Picture?Aravo appreciates Ketera’s new “Supplier Connect” tool as it validates some of the customer pain-points Aravo has targeted with our Supplier Information Management SIM platform since our inception in 2000. However, there are key differences between the offerings. From...; Tags: Channel management, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, long tail, supplier, supplier information management, Aravo, Ketera, supply chain; Discussion threads 2007-10-11
Ketera tames the supply chain's long tail: One area of opportunity for SaaS vendors that can help them differentiate themselves from their on-premises rivals is the ability to offer services that combine software with other shared resources. It's often the case that software alone falls short of a complete solution to a business pain point, and needs...; Tags: Long Tail, Supply Chain, Supplier, Ketera, Supplier Connect, Channel Management, Marketing, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-10-10
The consumerization of enterprise applications: This is a phrase I seem to have been hearing non-stop during my trip to California, meeting with SaaS vendors or listening to presentations at SaaScon, which finished yesterday [see disclosure]. Ease of use is a big focus for on-demand SaaS vendors. Of course it is for conventional software vendors...; Tags: Ketera, on-demand; Blog posts 2006-09-27

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On-demand software squared: Coupa launches SaaS e-procurement system running on Amazon's EC2 service: Coupa will launch an on-demand e-procurement software suite on Monday that is built on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud Web service. For those keeping score at home that makes the Coupa suite an on-demand service running on an on-demand service. The launch also makes Coupa one of Amazon's early corporate...; Tags: Software, SLA, Software-as-a-service, E-procurement, On-demand, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Service, Coupa, Enterprise Class Uptime, Purchasing & Procurement, Service Level Management, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-19

News to know: Outlook flaw; Ending spam; Windows to Mac; Gamemaster: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: MS Outlook flaw adds new twist to URI handling saga. David Berlind: After authentication of senders, ending spam requires a relationship managment protocol. Tech Shakedown #10: Windows Media Player's error dialog road to nowhere. Podcast: Google's search appliance 5.0 mines...; Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Lawmaker, ComScore Networks Inc., Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Flaw, Shrep, Microsoft Windows, Thin Clients, Media Players, Microsoft Outlook, Cyberthreats, Digital Music, Operating Systems, Digital Media, Software, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Security; Blog posts 2007-10-11
Billion dollar SaaS sectors: Billion dollar SaaS sectorsFact Checking 101I completely understand that your post was intended to fuel debate. But your position is drastically undercut by your representation of traditional installed application providers as SaaS providers.As a reminder to your readers, SaaS is about an entirely new business philosophy in which applications, content,...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Supply chain management (SCM), Billion-dollar SaaS; Discussion threads 2006-09-25
Billion dollar SaaS sectors: The drawback of having Salesforce.com as such a dominant figure in the SaaS industry is that many casual observers form the erroneous impression that SaaS is just a handful of companies, largely confined to the CRM sector. Nothing could be further from the truth. To see the full extent...; Tags: Saas; Blog posts 2006-09-24
Avnet, Inc. Leverages IBM Expertise to Reduce Procurement Costs: Avnet, Inc. (www.avnet.com), based in Phoenix, is one of the world's largest business-to-business distributors of semiconductors; interconnect passive and electromechanical components; enterprise network and computer equipment; and embedded systems from leading manufacturers. The challenge was to reduce the total cost of ownership of procurement solutions, including lowering both the cost...; Tags: AvNet Inc., E-procurement, Procurement, IBM Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, Business Services, Business Operations; Case studies