RollStream: Winning Supplier Information Management Deals By Selling Something Else (Part 2)
In the first post in this series, I provided some context on how RollStream is breaking out of the supplier information management (or supplier/enterprise community management, as they describe it) mold and building customer tract…
D&B Morphs and Grows Its Overall Supply Management and Risk Strategy (Part 3)
In the first two posts in this series (click here for Part 1 and Part 2), I covered the history and context behind D&B’s Supplier Risk Management toolset. This solution set includes supply risk content, predictive analytics and an underlying technology platform for monitoring the supplier lifecycle. In this post, I’ll provide details on the […]
Oracle Launches a New Approach to Supplier Management (Part 1)
At ISM this week, Oracle officially launched its new Supplier Lifecycle Management and Supplier Hub solutions. These products, built on Oracle’s Master Data Management suite, officially went GA in December of last year (yet are not able to be referenced at this point). While both solutions appear similar to other supplier information management tools on […]
Spend Matters, Live From ISM on Wednesday: Supply Risk Management Solution Analysis Session (Part 1)
This Wednesday at 9:00 AM PDT at ISM, I’ll be co-presenting with Sherry Gordon, a Spend Matters contributor and president of the Value Chain Group. Our session is titled “Understanding and Choosing Supply Risk Solutions: Software, Content and Analytics.” The two of us spent quite a bit of time analyzing the supply risk solution landscape […]
Vendor Analysis: Breaking out Strategic Sourcing as Gartner Defines It
In Gartner’s most recent magic quadrant analyzing the “strategic sourcing” market as they call it, Debbie Wilson lumps together a hodge-podge of solution areas such as “strategic sourcing suites.” Debbie bundles “strategic sourcing applications,” “spending analysis,” “supply base management” and “enterprise contract management” as part of her definition of strategic sourcing suites. Some of Gartner’s […]
RollStream — Taking a Consumer-Based Approach to Supplier Information Management (Part 2)
In the first part of this column, I examined some of the basics about RollStream, a vendor in the supplier information management market that takes a different approach than their competitors in targeting the SIM market. Today, we’ll continue this an…
RollStream: Community Management Becomes Supplier Management (Part 1)
Over the summer, I caught up with RollStream, a provider in the supplier information management arena that I’ve been meaning to write about for sometime, but somehow de-prioritized amidst other happenings in the market. This is a somewhat uncommon oc…
