A Look Under the Sourcing Covers: Accenture Picks Up Ariba’s Sourcing Services Assets (Part 2)
In the first post in this series covering Accenture’s acquisition of Ariba’s sourcing services business (i.e., the legacy FreeMarkets asset), I took an Accenture point of view. In this post, I’ll look at the deal through the eyes …
Friday Rant: Is Private Equity a Better Buyer of Software Companies Than Other Vendors?
Madison Dearborn’s recent Fieldglass buyout (here, here) provides further proof that today’s private equity firms might be better strategic — that’s right, strategic and not financial — buyers of software companies than software…
Fieldglass and Madison Dearborn — Additional Thoughts on the Deal (and the Future of VMS)
Madison Dearborn has bought itself what many (including me, as an industry observer) consider one of the top two VMS platforms in the market. With Fieldglass, they’ve purchased more than technology and a high-margin, high-growth b…
VMS and Contingent/Non-Contingent Services Spending Growth: Observations and Implications
The market for vendor management systems (VMS) and platforms and overall contingent and non-contingent services procurement enablement continues to reach new levels of interest (but not necessarily overall adoption, which I’ll get to in a minute). Earlier this morning, Fieldglass announced very solid customer acquisition growth in 2010 through the end of July, with “more […]
Update: Fieldglass
Local Chicago software firm is growing, prospering and winning in a down economy and tough, consolidating sector. Learn more about Fieldglass and the issues in the contingent services space.
FieldGlass Doubles Down on BI and Contingent Spend (Part 2)
In my first column tackling the latest from Chicago-based VMS provider Fieldglass last week, I provided an overview of a number of the gaps they recently filled from a reporting, analytics, visualization and benchmarking perspective in their solution…
Fieldglass: Doubling Down on Analytics to Drive Contingent Spend Savings (Part 1)
Earlier this month Fieldglass announced a new suite of analytics capabilities designed to help their customers — and MSP partners on behalf of their customers — make better contingent labor spending decisions. Fieldglass positions these enhancement…
IQNavigator Brings in an Industry Outsider as CEO: Lou Andreozzi
Earlier today, IQNavigator, one of the top VMS platform providers (and also an MSP), announced that procurement and staffing industry outsider, Lou Andreozzi, would be taking over the helm. Andreozzi is replacing John Raeder, who founded IQNavigator …
