A good Article by industry analyst - Jason Buch on SAP Spend management solution - SAP Spend Performance Management: Supply Risk Meets Spend Analysis Posted At : March 30, 2010 11:10 AM Posted By : Editor Related Categories: Jason Busch, Spend Management For years, SAP and Oracle largely punted on the spend analysis area, providing a large opportunity for other vendors to gain a foothold inside companies in a critical Spend Management area. In the past two quarters, however, both SAP and Oracle have gotten serious about releasing entirely new spend analysis tools that acknowledge the need for looking beyond just ERP systems data and dumping raw information into a data warehouse. SAP in particular has moved past solving basic multi-system and source spend data challenges, which they now accomplish through a combination of SAP extractors for ECC and SRM as well as a data integration ETL capability for non-SAP systems, not to mention support for integrating third-party data feed
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