Rani Merritt, executive vice president and general manager of worldwide marketing at BroadVision, said: "Our new procurement and market maker applications, combined with our existing, award-winning product line, give our customers the power to...
Thus even if Ariba did acquire the technology to provide its clients with supply chain and exchange software it would find gaining customers very difficult. This is why those B2B vendors looking to extend their reach from indirect to direct...
Unfortunately for the manufacturers, some of these third parties - particularly Microsoft - ended up owning the sweet spots of the PC value chain. Horizontalisation should mean that device vendors can find the role in the value chain that is right...
Transactions happen because of a relationship that is developed over time and for the future, and so managing customer relationships must be important to any business. That begs the question why a function of the business that should be looking at...
Answering these questions and ensuring the efficiency of the supply chain involves thousands of communications by hundreds of individuals in multiple organisations all over the globe. First, in most cases, whatever organisation sits at the top of a...
The Progress relationship raises one question: why does Infor not become even more Oracle-like and acquire Progress to give itself an infrastructure division? If it acquired Progress, Infor would be brought into conflict with many of the other ISVs...