
Friday Rant: How Will Rearden Cut Its New Ketera Cards?
Last week, Spend Matters covered Rearden Commerce’s Acquisition of Ketera in three posts:
Rearden Commerce Acquires Ketera, Creating a New, Broad Spend Management Offering
With Ketera, Will Rearden Prove a Viable P2P Competito…

With Ketera, Will Rearden Prove a Viable P2P Competitor to Ariba, Basware, Coupa, SAP, Oracle, etc.?
See our initial coverage of Rearden’s acquisition of Ketera here. One thing has been for sure in terms of Ketera in recent years, and that’s the fact that few dispute whether the vendor has gotten enough at bats relative to compet…

Rearden and Southwest Team Up — A Prescient Spend Management Travel Combination
Earlier today, Rearden Commerce (click here to see our recent commentary on this unique provider you should know about if you don’t already: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) announced it was teaming with Southwest Airlines to expose “d…

Rearden’s Travelport Partnership: History, Context and the Future of Travel Procurement (Part 1)
Spend Matters would like to welcome Richard Lee, the co-author of this post. Richard is a partner in Spend Matters Group, an M&A advisory firm serving the software, services, outsourcing and travel sectors. He is the former North America corporate …

Travel Tuesday: When US Government Employees Fly First Overseas
It makes my Spend Management blood boil to read this article in the Washington Times about how some Federal employees have taken it upon themselves to define their own travel policies and stick tax payers with the bill. If true, some of the suggestions in here feel downright criminal. To frame the context of the […]

Amex Acquires Revolution Money — Another Step Away From Spend Management
American Express continues to disappoint in the Spend Management sector of late, having taken the ball on their opponent’s 40 yard line numerous times with the result so far having been numerous interceptions and punts and nary a touchdown, not even …