Enterprise Performance Management - Data is First Priority

In his first ever article in 2010 on his blog spendmatters, titled Wish you Happy New Year 2009 , Jason Buch started it with a question - "Wouldn't you like to forget 2009? " As an industry observer and analyst I will say NO. Not lot many of you agree with me I know, as it was an upside down for many of us. But lets think - in which decade there was no such situation in one or the other front somewhere ? So this is a phenomenon continues. Whether that affects individual life or not - that person will see it as a good or bad. Now being in the big economy was bound to affect sometime - which it did. Just like a tsunami devastated many, a year prior to that. Now lets look at what happened good in 2009 - the first and foremost - overall manufacturing, support, logistics, supply chain and IT and hundreds of ancillary sector went through a matuarity curve. The things that were irrelevant or not so critical in the chain started vanishing. Everything now is being attached wit...

Hello, Wish you all and your Family Very Very Happy New Year 2010. May all your dreams come true and life filled with Happiness this year. I am sure this year is going to be a wonderfully hectic on work front. Now sometimes yes hectic is not so wonderful, but most of the times I enjoy it. We all know that the analytics industry is all buzzing and getting matured after long learning curve. Till 2 years back, supply chain analytics or spend analysis was game of more nische players whereas big guns looking at it as "something that we dont have to do", "its not our thing" attitude. Big ERP players was more into application integrated with their systems and data management activities was always service delivery thing with speciality companies doing good like - Ariba, Zycus, Emptoris, Bravo to name few. Now 2008 and 2009 saw sudden changes in that landscape. As economy was fragile and people started looking at optimization as the solution, everybody including big ERP pl...