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Reverse Auctions on the Cheap
Feb 16, 2010 Charles' Purchasing Certification Blog discuses free and lost cost approaches for running reverse auctions, and lists the pros and cons of a build-your-own solution using free discussion boards.
Purchasing.com: What $100K buys in spend analysis software
Feb 11, 2010 Purchasing set out to find spend analysis software for under $100,000. At Ketera, you get access to the reporting application for up to 20 users, initial analysis of up to 50,000 suppliers and 1.5 million transactions,, a one-time initial analysis of historical data, and quarterly data refreshes for one year.
Purchasing.com: On the hunt for contract management software under $100K
Jan 14, 2010 Purchasing recently undertook a unique effort to analyze the contract management software market with a particular eye towards how contract management users can quickly get to ROI and what providers will offer contract management buyers for under $100,000. For $1,000/month, up to 15 users in a mid-sized enterprise can get Ketera's SaaS-based enterprise-class contract management solution.
Spend Matters: Ketera Joins the Free eRFX Fray
Jan 11, 2010 There's nothing overly novel in the approach of providing a free forum to connect buyers and suppliers, but it's quite interesting that Ketera is tying this to its nearly free sourcing tool, which provides expanded e-sourcing capabilities. Moreover, this public-marketplace notion builds on an already accepted supplier-identification and research model that's been around for quite some time...
Sourcing Innovation: e-Leaders Speak: Ketera on "e-Sourcing: Access for all"
Sep 14, 2009 More and more companies will start using sourcing solutions to manage their purchases more efficiently as sourcing solutions become broadly accessible - in terms of both initial investment and ease of use. This will be driven by solutions which are available like any other instant online purchase - immediately, easy to use without any fear of complex technology or requiring intensive training. They will be fully integrated with a complete suite of spend management applications and based on a strong member community of buyers and suppliers. And they will be truly affordable to companies of any size.
Spend Matters: A Guest Post from Ketera (Part 2)
Aug 26, 2009 In my first post, I discussed our strategy for meeting the market's evolving need for ubiquitous and inexpensive sourcing, and put it into the context of Web 3.0 easy access to information and the benefits of being part of a social network. In this post I'll cover more about how the market wants to use Web 3.0 info, and how we think we can win in meeting those needs.
Spend Matters: A Guest Post from Ketera (Part 1)
Aug 24, 2009 I'd like to thank Jason for his insightful posts on Ketera recently, and the opportunity to provide some additional information about where we think the market is headed, what we need to offer to the market, and why we've chosen the strategy we have.
One India: HCL BPO, Ketera Tech in strategic alliance
Feb 12, 2009 HCL Technologies announced on Wednesday, Feb 12 that its BPO arm has inked a strategic alliance with Ketera Technologies to provide source-to-pay services.With partnership from Ketera, HCL BPO aims to give full procurement outsourcing across industry verticals.
Money Control: HCL BPO-Ketera Technologies to provide Source-to-Pay Srvc
Feb 11, 2009 HCL Technologies Ltd.-BPO Services and Ketera today formally announced a strategic alliance to provide Source-to-Pay services. Through this partnership with Ketera, HCL BPO will deliver full-scope procurement outsourcing across industry verticals.
Spend Matters: Ketera Crashes the E-Sourcing Party - Starting at $39.99 per Month.
Aug 19, 2008 Today, Ketera is quietly launching a new E-Sourcing product that aims to challenge the status quo in the sector with outrageously low price points and decent functionality. While I'll get to the pricing in a minute, let's just say that the cost should be a non-issue and Ketera will even accept plastic. That's right. You'll be able to pay with your credit card.
So You're an SAP Shop -- What Are Your Options? (Part 2)
Jun 6, 2008 In yesterday's post, I suggested alternatives for SAP customers to consider as they await the first new major SRM product release in the past couple of years. In today's post, I'd like to continue this discussion by suggesting alternatives for SAP shops in the areas of spend analysis/visibility and sourcing (we'll leave contract management for a discussion in the coming weeks).
So You're an SAP Shop -- What Are Your Options? (Part 1)
Jun 5, 2008 The head of marketing for an SAP competitor (Emptoris) in the Spend Management arena recently pointed out in a comment that I did not do a fair job highlighting that other options exist besides waiting for SAP's next core SRM product release (or going with an SAP hosted option that uses legacy technology today). You know what? He's probably right.
TMCnet: Ketera Founder Returns to Lead Company
Feb 8, 2008 Ketera, the leading provider of On Demand Spend Management solutions, today announced that the company's founder, Steve Savignano, has been appointed as the new chief executive officer. Savignano will replace Burton M. Goldfield who joined the company as CEO in April of 2006.
ZD Net: Dynamics NAV 6.0: Another Day, Another Brick
Oct 24, 2007 Although it'll be a while yet before the entire establishment of enterprise software comes tumbling down, the pace of decay is accelerating even faster than I expected. Hours after my posting yesterday in which I contrasted SAP's withdrawal of its SRM 6.0 release with SaaS rival Ketera's fast-paced release schedule, fellow ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley reveals that Microsoft "has delayed the product formerly codenamed Dynamics NAV 5.1 from the first half of 2008 to the second half of 2008. It also has renamed that release Dynamics NAV 6.0."
ZD Net: SAP SRM, Another Brick from the Wall
Oct 23, 2007 The contrast could not be more stark between yesterday's launch of Coupa's Amazon-hosted SaaS e-procurement system and SAP's decision on Friday to cancel the upcoming release of its spend management product. Another beneficiary of SAP's misfortune is SaaS vendor Ketera, which earlier this month added a new supplier management application to its spend management suite.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Ketera Aims to Drive Greater Value from e-Procurement Systems
Oct 17, 2007 On-demand spend management specialist Ketera has debuted a new supply base management solution aimed at providing both buyer- and supplier-facing tools to help companies drive efficiency and predictability from their investments in new or existing sourcing and procure-to-pay applications.
Manufacturing Business Technology: Making a Comeback: Supplier Management Issues Revive e-Sourcing Market
Oct 11, 2007 After a rocket-fast start in the late 1990s, the e-sourcing software market suffered a crash landing, largely because the solutions' primary selling point—the ability to continuously uncover lower-cost suppliers—didn't generate large enough returns on what for many companies were multimillion-dollar investments. Recently, however, several e-sourcing vendors have reported surging sales.
ZD Net: Ketera Tames the Supply Chain's Long Tail
Oct 10, 2007 One area of opportunity for SaaS vendors that can help them differentiate themselves from their on-premises rivals is the ability to offer services that combine software with other shared resources. Online vendors can offer the complete solution as an integrated package — and because they have to manage all the components, they have a more pressing incentive to make sure their software does the best possible job of bringing them all together.
Purchasing.com: Ketera Unveils New Supplier Enablement tool
Oct 10, 2007 Santa Clara, Calif.-based software company Ketera released Supplier Connect, a new on-demand tool to help buyers manage supplier network and enablement data under one "roof" and drive spend optimization tool adoption. Supplier Connect, which Ketera says works with third-party procurement applications as well as its own, can help buyers "accelerate the speed at which end users adapt to new initiatives or sources of supply and expend spend under management," according to a Ketera press release.
SpendMatters: Ketera Dives Deep on Enablement and Supplier Management
Oct 9, 2007 This morning, Ketera hit the wire with news that it is releasing an entirely set of capabilities and solutions in the supplier enablement and management arena. Having previewed a number of these new products -- all of which will be available by the second week of December during this calendar year -- I can honestly say they've invested a lot in thinking about not only the supplier enablement process, but also the ongoing management and measurement of suppliers.
TMCnet: Ketera Selected as the "The Next Big Thing" at Software 2007
Jul 23, 2007 Ketera, the leading provider of On Demand Spend Management solutions, today announced that it's been selected as one of "The Next Big Thing" companies by Sand Hill Group for the prestigious invitation-only Enterprise 2007 Conference taking place July 22-24, 2007 in Pebble Beach, Calif.
TMCnet: Ketera Honored in 2007 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100
Jul 19, 2007 Ketera, the leading provider of On Demand Spend Management solutions, today announced that the company has been named to the prestigious Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 listing for the fifth consecutive year.
Purchasing Magazine: Tool kit for e-procurement
Jul 14, 2007 E-procurement software can be a worthwhile investment to automate and streamline the minutiae of procurement. Companies that adopt e-procurement software are looking for a tool to make their jobs easier so they don't have to focus on day-to-day paperwork.
Nucleus Research: Ketera Customer Wins ROI Award by Using Ketera's Spend Analysis Solution
Jun 27, 2007 Nucleus Research, a leading global provider of IT research and advisory services, today revealed the winners of the fourth annual Technology ROI Awards. The awards recognized ten end-user companies whose skillful deployment of IT solutions has produced a positive, bottom-line financial return on investment (ROI). Award recipients were honored with a unique handcrafted ROI Awards boomerang as an acknowledgment of their ability to deliver significant value to their organization.
Business Wire: Ketera on Demand Spend Management Solutions Achieve Powered by SAP NetWeaver® Certification
Jun 12, 2007 With global interest in enterprise-class on demand offerings increasing, SAP customers now have a compelling low-risk option to fully leverage their approved supplier network and improve control of spending. Ketera, the leading provider of On Demand Spend Management solutions, today announced that its solution suite has achieved the "Powered by SAP NetWeaver®" certification.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Ketera Selected to the 2007 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100
Jun 1, 2007 Adaptable. Agile. Customer-focused. Global. Scalable. A modern supply chain must have all these characteristics (and more) as the "push" economy of yesterday gives way to the 21st century's demand-driven "pull" economy. To compete successfully in this new reality, enterprises of all sizes are turning to technology and service cproviders to help them enable their "21st century supply chains."
Spend Matters: Ketera Gets Some Play in the Journal
May 16, 2007 Kudos to Ketera's PR team for getting some play in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Getting into the Journal is tough for small companies (I define small as anything less than $50 million). So a mention like this -- especially with a customer reference -- represents a crowing PR achieving for the quarter (maybe even the year).
InformationWeek: What's the Most Innovative Software?
May 9, 2007 That's a trick question, because most of the innovation I'm seeing at the Software 2007 conference in Silicon Valley this week isn't in traditional, on-premise software, it's in software services. You know, on-demand, SaaS, whatever you want to call it. Here's a few of the companies that have caught my eye.
Purchasing Magazine: The ABCs of spend analysis: Bring the data together
May 3, 2007 It's all well and good to try implementing a spend analysis program, but the very first steps—getting support, deciding what data you need, then finding it—can be daunting. The process known as ETL—extract, transform, and load—means pulling every morsel of data together and cleaning it up before funneling it through a spend analysis program.
Info World: The Real Appeal of SaaS
Feb 13, 2007 If we are ever to cut through the hype in hopes of determining how good SaaS (software as a service) really is, the best way would be to talk to companies that use SaaS. Of course, each application or service must stand on its own — SaaS can't turn a pig's ear into a silk purse, as they say — but I've been wondering what it is that's inherent to all or most SaaS applications that makes the model so appealing to midsize and larger companies.
Managing Automation: The User Interface Revolution (Easy as Pie)
Feb 8, 2007 George Stelling has a dream. Stelling, the chief information officer at graphics semiconductor maker Nvidia Corp., wants to enable just about everyone at the $3 billion company to become a confident and productive user of the company's increasingly strategic SAP ERP system. Stelling's goal — which he has identified to his organization as a key objective for 2007 — is not surprising.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Pulling Back the Curtain on Spend Analysis with Latest Release from Ketera
Feb 7, 2007 On-demand spend management specialist Ketera has released the latest version of its spend analysis solution, aiming to pull back the curtain on spend analysis by foregoing the traditional "black box" approach that has hidden the granular details of the spend analysis process from the user.
Intelligent Enterprise: Ketera Offers Spend-Analysis Upgrade
Feb 6, 2007 Ketera on Tuesday upgraded the spend-analysis module within the company's hosted business-to-business platform for buyers and suppliers.Spend Analysis 5.0 includes new processing technology the delivers analytics faster and with higher accuracy, the Santa Clara, Calif., company said.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: 2007 Pros to Know
Feb 1, 2007 In C-level suites and boardrooms around the world, Supply Chain increasingly is viewed as a strategic function. CEOs and CFOs are coming to understand the supply chain's impact not only on the bottom line but on the top line as well. Yes, as a function, Supply Chain must continue to deliver year-over-year efficiencies, reducing costs and ensuring greater return on assets.
American Digital Networks: Ketera Announces Next Generation Spend Analysis Solution
Feb 1, 2007 Of course, each application or service must stand on its own — SaaS can't turn a pig's ear into a silk purse, as they say — but I've been wondering what it is that's inherent to all or most SaaS applications that makes the model so appealing to midsize and larger companies.
The Manufacturer: Ketera and Hyperion Announce Partnership to Deliver Operational BI Capabilities
Jan 30, 2007 Ketera, the leading provider of On-Demand Spend Management solutions, and Hyperion, a global leader in Business Performance Management (BPM) software, hass announced they have signed an OEM partnership agreement to deliver operational business intelligence (BI) capabilities to customers.
Intelligent Enterprise: Hyperion Integrates BI Tools With Ketera On-Demand Spend Management
Jan 30, 2007 Hyperion Solutions on Tuesday said customers who subscribe to Ketera Technologies' hosted spend management system can receive its analytics through Hyperion's business intelligence dashboard. By adding Ketera's operational data to Hyperion's financial BI, the latter company is offering another reason to expand the use of its software outside of the executive suites
InformationWeek: Information Builders Shows A Smarter BI Tool
Jan 30, 2007 What if you could use Google to search for information in your company's databases, and then immediately analyze or develop reports with that data? Information Builders claims it can offer that capability with new software it introduced today called WebFocus Magnify.
The Manufacturer: Hey CPO! click here
Jan 30, 2007 With procurement tools that mimic online shopping, your staff trains itself to find a bargain, writes Dann Anthony Maurno
SpendMatters: Ketera Scores a Mezzanine Round
Jan 16, 2007 While I'm a bit late covering the news, it's worth pointing out to Spend Matters readers that Ketera was able to score a solid mezzanine round last week. According to Suppy and Demand Chain Executive, "The oversubscribed mezzanine round of funding was led by Duff, Ackerman and Goodrich (DAG) Ventures, and was joined by Teachers' Private Capital, the private investment arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), one of the world's largest pension plans."
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Ketera Raises $14 Million in Latest Funding Round, Hires IBM Executive
Jan 10, 2007 On-demand spend management specialist Ketera has secured $14 million in its latest funding round, with plans to invest the new funds in expanding its direct sales force and its channels program, the company announced this week.
Manufacturing Business Technology: Buying into the right strategy
Jan 1, 2007 Mohawk Industries made a somewhat surprising discovery while investigating the possibility of outsourcing its accounts payable function: Applying the right information technology (IT) to the process would yield greater and more sustainable savings.
TMCnet: VoiceObjects Furthers Growth
Dec 13, 2006 Forging on towards continued success in the future, VoiceObjects, provider of Voice Software and VoiceXML, recently announced new achievements and appointments to strengthen their team and company as it evolves. Most recently, Jim Madden joined the company's leadership team as vice president, America sales. Madden brings to the team a proven record of accomplishment in building relationships and partnerships and is a well-known industry veteran.
The San Francisco Examiner: New Achievements in Business
Dec 8, 2006 BancWest Corp., the San Francisco holding company for Bank of the West and First Hawaiian Bank, said Thibault Fulconis has been appointed executive VP and chief financial officer. Fulconis was also named vice chairman of finance at Bank of the West. He replaces Doug Grigsby, who retired.
Purchasing.com: Ketera's Mercury a new direction in on demand procurement
Nov 30, 2006 Kennametal believes in on-demand procurement software—so much so that the company plans to expand its use of the tool. John LaDuke, North American purchasing manager at Kennametal, says the company will roll out Ketera's Mercury platform in the near future. One major reason: its user-friendliness.
ZDNet: The consumerization of enterprise applications
Sep 27, 2006 This is a phrase I seem to have been hearing non-stop during my trip to California, meeting with SaaS vendors or listening to presentations at SaaScon, which finished yesterday [see disclosure]. Ease of use is a big focus for on-demand SaaS vendors.
Spend Matters: Ketera Focuses on Usability
Sep 26, 2006 Earlier this month, I had the chance to demo Ketera's latest eProcurement release, and I came away smiling. Because it's not everyday that you see a procurement product which is immediately intuitive and easy to use for the typical employee.
Purchasing Magazine: On-demand promises to hook savings
Sep 7, 2006 Just as on-demand technology has changed the way viewers watch movies at home, on-demand software is transforming the way many companies do business. By the most basic definition, on-demand, ASP, software as a service (SaaS)—whatever you choose to call it—means letting someone else worry about the IT while focusing precious internal resources on managing spend or supply chain functions.
Baseline: Attention Shoppers
Sep 5, 2006 The winning projects in the Baseline/The Hackett Group ROI Leadership Awards pulled in relatively quick returns with hosted, Web-based systems.What's the measure of success? Call us old-fashioned, but we think an information-technology system should deliver more value to an organization than it costs to put in and maintain.
Sterling-Hoffman: CEO Spotlight: Burton Goldfield, Ketera Technologies, Inc.
Sep 1, 2006 Burton Goldfield, CEO of Ketera Technologies, talks with Angel Mehta, Managing Director of Sterling-Hoffman, about letting the best ideas win, what he learned when Big Blue acquired Rational, and what every sales executive should know - if they want to be CEO.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Ketera Launches On-demand Supplier Content Management Solution
Aug 18, 2006 On-demand spend management specialist Ketera has launched a new content management solution intended to help procurement organizations ease the process of enabling suppliers to sign onto e-procurement solutions and encourage end user adoption by making more supplier content readily available.
Byte & Switch: Agami Plots Upgrade
Aug 15, 2006 NAS startup Agami Systems has picked up a quick $11 million to help push its next release out the door. Hercules Technology Growth Capital provided the money in debt financing to go with $38 million in VC funding Agami raised over two past rounds.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Clubconnect Selects Ketera Platform for Australian Hospitality Portal
Apr 27, 2006 Australia's Clubconnect has tapped a procurement solution from Ketera to establish an online portal for the country's gaming industry. Clubconnect, a new venture intended to serve the Australian club market, will use the Ketera Procurement Solution for its Supplyline Portal, a buyer and supplier market for the gaming industry.
ChannelWeb: Hyperion Buys ISV UpStream
Apr 20, 2006 Business intelligence software vendor Hyperion Solutions is scooping up one of its longtime ISV partners, announcing plans on Thursday to buy data integrity management vendor UpStream Software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Based in Rochester, Mich., UpStream has been a preferred partner of Hyperion's since 2002. It offers an integration adapter to deliver its data to Hyperion's line of analytics and business process management applications.
InformationWeek: Can Salesforce.com Fix What's Wrong With Mobile Apps?
Apr 17, 2006 The PDA is rapidly trickling down from the executive suite and into the hands of the rank and file. But handing employees PDAs is a lot easier than giving them worthwhile business applications to run on the devices. An app that works on a BlackBerry won't necessarily work on a Palm Treo.
Datamation.com: Datamation.com Announces Product of the Year Winners
Feb 21, 2006 There were no horse races this year. Datamation.com readers voted for 10 clear winners in the Datamation.com Product of the Year 2006 Awards. For the second year in a row, business software giant SAS won a pair of awards, while two other companies also repeated in their respective categories.
HostReview.com: Ketera Achieves Record Fiscal Growth
Jan 23, 2006 Ketera, the leading provider of On Demand Spend Management solutions, today announced the company achieved record growth in its fiscal year of 2005. Finishing the year strong, Ketera, in its fourth quarter, continues to add new customers to its fast-growing roster, spanning multiple industries and geographies and ranging in size from mid to large enterprises.
eWeek.com: Salesforce.com Takes Aim at Java, .Net with AppExchange
Jan 18, 2006 Salesforce.com began its campaign to turn its on-demand customer relationship management service into a development platform for Web applications with the official introduction of AppExchange here Tuesday. The company rolled out AppExchange along with the Winter 06 edition of its core CRM application at the type of event that has become Saleforce.coms hallmark.
HostReview.com: Ketera Launches Invoice Management
Jan 13, 2006 Ketera, the leading provider of On Demand Spend Management solutions, today launched Ketera Invoice Management, the industry's first integrated on demand invoicing application that offers complete visibility into an organization's cash flow management. This new invoicing solution, combined with Ketera's comprehensive suite of spend management solutions, creates the first fully-integrated, on demand procure-to-pay solution offering in the marketplace.
SupplyManagement.com: Transport Police adopts an on demand buying system
Jan 5, 2006 The British Transport Police's purchasing department will begin using pay-as-you-go e-procurement technology this month. It is the next stage in a plan to modernise its procurement and gain control over its £40 million annual goods and services spend.Work on reducing its 3,000-strong supply base by 50 per cent, and analysing areas where it could negotiate better deals is already under way.
Insurance Networking News: Riding the Wave
Jan 1, 2005 Over the past two years, many carriers, either to their dismay or bewilderment, saw key software vendors fall under new ownership. And it hasn't been simply a case of small fish being eaten by larger fish. Some of the largest names in the software business have been caught in the net. PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems, giants in their markets, for instance, were scooped up in acquisitions.
Manufacturing Business Technology: Understanding the software-subscription model
Jan 1, 2005 When Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals opened for business in April 2000, an ambitious business plan called for getting low-cost generic treatments for illnesses such as Hepatitis C to market quickly. "Although we had no FDA-approved products to begin with, and therefore no issues with requirements such as traceability, we knew that when we did receive FDA approval, those issues would hit us quickly," recalls Christine Sheehy, VP of operations at the Cranberry Township, Pa.-based company.
eWeek: On-Demand Software Goes Mainstream in 2006
Dec 12, 2005 Software as a service has won such broad acceptance in the IT industry that it has entirely lost its identity as an experimental business model for software distribution. As a result, SaaS companies and analysts expect that the business model will continue to become more mainstream as a diverse array of on-demand service providers continue to come into the market.
Ketera lands $13M fourth round funding
Dec 6, 2005 Ketera Technologies Inc. said on Tuesday it has landed $13 million in a fourth round of venture capital funding. Ketera, based in Santa Clara, sells software to help companies control and reduce expenditures by analyzing expenses, helping them source supplies and manage payment and reconciliation.
Pittsburgh-Post Gazette: Ariba is betting smaller is better
Dec 2, 2005 A lot of things are "on demand" these days, from movies to television to even ads. Now, businesses such as Ariba Inc. are embracing the technique to attract new customers. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based firm with a major operations center Downtown recently unveiled plans to lure smaller businesses into its online supply management fold by offering on-demand services that let the firms pick and choose what they want.
PublicTechnology.net: British Transport Police puts in IT to improve contract & expenditure management
Nov 3, 2005 British Transport Police (BTP) are aiming to significantly cut costs, save time and improve visibility of their expenditure with a new Contract Management and Spend Analysis system from supplier Ketera. BTP, the national police force for railways throughout England, Wales and Scotland, is responsible for policing the multiple rail systems that move approximately five million people everyday.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: British Transport Police Finds Key to Unlock Spend Management Savings
Nov 3, 2005 BTP, the national police force for railways throughout England, Wales and Scotland, is responsible for policing the multiple rail systems that move approximately five million people everyday. In order to save time and gain stronger visibility and control over its spend, BTP said it will deploy Ketera's on-demand spend management solutions to automate operations, centralize contracts and assess supplier performance against those contracts.
Global Supply Chain & Logistics: Spend Analysis Tools Help Companies Find Opportunities for Supply Chain Savings
Oct 1, 2005 Since e-procurement solutions hit the market around 2000 and began delivering impressive savings in the purchase of indirect materials like office supplies, companies have sought to expand the use of technology to other areas of corporate spend. A variety of applications, including contract management and supplier management, were introduced and now leading vendors are integrating these, along with robust visibility and analysis tools, into an overall solution known as Enterprise Spend Management (ESM).
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Ketera Touts Mid-market Momentum for On-demand Spend Management
Sep 26, 2005 On-demand spend management specialist Ketera is touting its success in the mid-market, highlighting several midsize companies that are using the provider's solution to increase productivity, ensure compliance, improve supplier relationships and control costs. Ketera said its mid-market customers cover such sectors as government, with the British Transport Police (BTP); high tech services, with Horizon Associates; retail, with ABC Distributing; telecommunications, with Ciena; financial services, with GMAC Commercial Mortgage; and chemical, with Cabot Microelectronics.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Ketera Unveils "On Demand Bill of Rights"
Sep 21, 2005 On-demand spend management specialist Ketera has released what it is calling its "On Demand Bill of Rights," a declaration intended to help customers gain awareness of, and claim their various "rights" to, business value from business applications.
CFO.com: Inventory: How Fast Is Too Fast?
Sep 18, 2005 Every time a brightly colored ball bursts out of an air rifle and splatters red, green, or blue paint all over someone's shirt, Tod George knows his supply chain is in good shape. George is the CFO of Matric Ltd., a $30 million contract manufacturer in Seneca, Pennsylvania, that provides loaded circuit boards and cable assemblies to makers of paintball guns, medical devices, mining equipment, and a host of other electronics-based component manufacturers.
Purchasing.com: Buyers get on target online
Sep 15, 2005 As engineering and purchasing manager for Waltham, Mass.-based Formulatrix, a supplier of imaging systems for the life sciences industry, Jorge Barrera used to be limited to his local area for the suppliers he needed for machining and molding processes. The Internet broadened his horizons.
Customer Interaction Solutions: Asserting Your "On Demand Bill Of Rights"
Sep 14, 2005 Ever heard of a business process that comes with a "bill of rights" for users? Me neither. That's why this news, from on-demand spend management solutions provider Ketera, is so interesting. Ketera proposes the "On Demand Bill of Rights," a sort of declaration intended to help customers understand and exercise their rights to get business value from on-demand business applications.
eWeek.com: Microsoft Customers Impatient for Midmarket Products
Sep 7, 2005 Microsoft customers who attended the companys business summit here Wednesday said they are pleased the company is making a major commitment to the midmarket segment. However, they expressed impatience that it would take several more years for them to see the full results of this strategy.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Net Best Thing
Sep 1, 2005 The mid-market is getting a lot of attention from the e-procurement players of late, and just in time. "With continued pressures to improve performance and reduce costs, sourcing, procurement and supply management initiatives, and automation investments are now not only a priority but a necessity for mid-market companies," says Tim Minahan, senior vice president for global supply management research at Aberdeen Group.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: "Ketera Targets Mid-market with New Suppliers"
May 21, 2005 "On demand" spend management specialist Ketera has signed up new supplier members for its online procurement network, adding vendors offering books and office supplies, as well as information technology goods and electronics supplies. The Ketera Supplier Network is available to the solution provider's customers through hosted procurement and spend management services.
HostReview: Ketera Takes Hold of Mid-Market with New Suppliers
Apr 20, 2005 Ketera (www.ketera.com), the leading provider of on demand spend management solutions, today announced new members to the Ketera Supplier Network, the most extensive supplier network available supporting hosted procurement and spend management services. The network is comprised of suppliers that offer everything from MRO to IT software and hardware, office supplies, books and contingent labor.
The CIO Weblog: Interview with Steve Savignano, CEO Ketera
Apr 18, 2005 Ketera Technologies is the leading provider of on demand spend management solutions, providing companies with the applications and services needed to control and reduce corporate spending at a low cost of ownership. Ketera Spend Management includes solutions for the entire procure to pay process; spend analysis, sourcing, procurement, contract and content management, payment, and reconciliation.
HostReview: Ketera and Aptium Global Partner to Give Manufacturers Increased Cost Savings, Buying Power
Mar 31, 2005 Ketera Technologies Inc., (www.ketera.com) the leading provider of on demand spend management solutions, today announced that Aptium Global has joined the Ketera Sourcing Partner Program to offer manufacturing companies in the mid-market more visibility and control of their corporate spend.
Northrop Grumman Space Technology: Ketera Receives Supplier Award from Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Mar 29, 2005 Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) today presented awards to 40 suppliers and 11 subcontractors for consistently demonstrating excellence in product quality, delivery predictability, competitive pricing and other value-added services. The company's Space Technology sector gave Gold awards to recognize many of the best companies in the industry during its annual Supplier Recognition Conference.
Business Week Online: The Young Turks of Business Software
Mar 10, 2005 Last week, I dropped by VC firm Foundation Capital to meet three CEOs of startups that are selling business software via the Internet. (I don't mean software you download and install. I mean the kind you use inside a web browser.)
Purchasing.com: Ways to measure supplier performance
Mar 3, 2005 Kennametal Inc. prides itself on quality products, competitive prices, and on-time delivery. So when a European supplier missed a shipment by weeks and customers bought materials elsewhere, the metalworking manufacturer's procurement chief took action. Jim Cebula, director of Kennametal's global purchasing and travel, negotiated a consigned inventory contract with the supplier, which, within four months, was able to stock enough products to deliver them on time again.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: 2005 Pros to Know
Mar 1, 2005 Steve Savignano, CEO, Ketera Technologies — Early evangelizer for the on demand model and for applying modularized, Web-based software to the challenges of enterprise spend management, as well as bringing e-procurement tools to mid-market companies.
Infoworld: Technologies for buying technology
Feb 18, 2005 Smart IT shopping is mostly about implementing the right procurement strategy, but software itself can provide the tools to analyze spending, enforce purchasing policies, and eliminate proprietary roadblocks that oftentimes lock you into a single vendor's product line.
CRN: Ketera Launches Channel Effort
Jan 21, 2005 Software as service vendor Ketera Technologies, which competes against Ariba in the spend-management arena, has launched a reseller program to help it branch down into the midmarket. The company -- which hosts spend analysis, e-procurement, and contract management modules -- counts United Airlines, Delta Airlines and Jacobs Engineering Group among its enterprise customers.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Spend Analysis for the Mid-Market
Nov 23, 2004 On-demand procurement specialist Ketera Technologies this week rolled out its first solution specifically targeted at the small and midsize business segment, offering up an online tool designed to give customers access to the provider's spend analysis solution directly from the Web.
Processor: Spend Management For The Bottom Line-It All Comes Down To This
Sep 10, 2004 Every decision, every diagnosis, every hardware upgrade, and every call made. While all this is happening, someone is watching the bottom line like a hawk. In all reality, this is what it all comes down to: Companies are trying to control costs, get volume discounts, and get a better handle on where the money goes.
Purchasing: Avnet automates req-to-check process for MRO
Sep 2, 2004 When Phil Wehrli joined Avnet Inc., as director of procurement services in 2003 he was tasked with automating the company's purchasing system for indirect goods and services in North America. Headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz., Avnet is one of the world's largest technology marketing, distribution and services companies.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: In Depth: Global Supply Chain-Making Global Supply Chains Work
Sep 1, 2004 For many supply and demand chain practitioners, globalization isn't a newfound political issue; it's a reality they've been contending with for years. As companies have sought to lower their costs and expand their markets by taking a more international approach to the way they source, build and sell their products, globalization is adding new challenges and bringing new opportunities to the supply and demand chain.
Industryweek.com: Procurement's New Role
Sep 1, 2004 90s technology birthed big ideas in purchasing such as online auctions, which promised buyers big savings through transparent bidding but were seen as Internet based boxing rings by pummeled suppliers. Today, manufacturers are using technology to build and foster collaborative purchasing environments.
eWeek: Utility Computing Requires New TCO Approach
Aug 24, 2004 A Yankee Group study says it could be a decade before the computer industry gets the most TCO efficiency out of utility computing, which aims to respond cost-effectively in a constantly changing business environment. Enterprise IT managers are becoming more sophisticated planners and negotiators when it comes to implementing utility computing systems capable of responding in a cost-effective way to dynamic business conditions, according to a report by market research firm The Yankee Group.
ComputerWorld: Reining In Maverick Buyers
Apr 26, 2004 They weren't bad guys. The 18% of Kennametal Inc.'s employees who ordered PCs or paper clips locally, outside the purchasing office's control, thought they were doing the right thing. But these so-called maverick buyers were big spenders -- too big.
Purchasing: Alternative To Software
Jul 17, 2003 Ketera Spend Management provides a closed-loop spend management solution deployed as 'on demand' services at a low total cost of ownership. Ketera Spend Management includes applications for spend analysis, sourcing, e-procurement, payment and reconciliation and supplier-enablement helping users to understand, control and reduce spending.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Manage Spend, Not Software
Aug 20, 2002 MarketMile, the American Express-backed e-procurement services provider, wants to be your low-cost e-procurement provider. The company today threw down the gauntlet to providers of "behind-the-firewall" enterprise e-procurement solutions, launching what it is calling the first enterprise spend management solution delivered online as a managed Web service in an effort to offer low-cost e-procurement for large and midsize enterprises.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Examining The Shift To "On Demand" Applications
Jan 1, 2002 The enterprise software industry is currently experiencing a dramatic shift in how technology is delivered and sold. Customers are effecting this change by demanding fast and ongoing value. They are also reacting against the classic license and maintenance fee model, which has long been favored by enterprise software providers.
The Manufacturer US: IT: Consumerize corporate procurement, and corporations will procure more
Dec 6, 1999 Procurement application vendor Ketera took the time to walk us through its Ketera Procurement solution, which VP of Products Pravin Kumar says consumerizes corporate procurement. Procurement application vendor Ketera took the time to walk us through its Ketera Procurement solution, which VP of Products Pravin Kumar says consumerizes corporate procurement.