Enterprise Performance Management - Data is First Priority

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...

Since last one week there is a interesting conversation going on in the blogsphere - not in general - but the procurement, strategic sourcing areas - between Jason Buch of Spendmatters and Debbi Wilson of Gartner . Its all started with Jason writing an article how gartner abandoned a blog taking a dig at debbie,and debbie answered it here . Though I am enjoying most of the readings and comments and counter comments here , I think this more than between Jason and Debbie. Its good that they brought a biggest question in this industry where so called big analysts and advisors are influencing and driving decision making in the industry. I am not sure to what extent all this can be avoided as vendors try to be close to these analysts to get the opinion in favor and industry leaders look for them to get the "good" advice. So in between analysts fetch too important and decisive role to play with both. Now one has to keep in mind that these analysts are human naturally driven ...

Purchasing Magazine, Bristlecone and SAP getting together to bring you very good discussion on supplier risk management. Webinar will be held on June 24, 2 to 3 PM eastern Time, USA. Contributors are - Paul Teague from Purchasing magazine , Jason Buch from spendmatters , Naresh Hingorani from Bristlecone - Supply chain leader company and Padmini Ranganathan from SAP. As we always talk about spend visibility, data issues, strategic sourcing - these distinguised speakers will bring out more strategic views to the table on how all this can be achieved to analyze your business risks better, upfront. You can register for event by accessing this link and register See you there.