In the depths of a recession, discretionary spend is the first targetfor cost avoidance and Enterprise application upgrades are easy to avoid. But if your organization uses PeopleSoft Financials 8.8, 8.9 or 9.0, an upgrade to 9.1 might just make sense as a means of...
SRM remains a hot topic for organisations, and creating the business case for change is challenging. All of us understand SRM is the right thing to do, but putting absolute values on benefits achieved through an SRM programme is difficult. In 2009 State of Flux focused their survey around...
In a recent report by Celent they report the surprisingly low rates of adoption in parts of Asia. China, Japan and India in particular are relatively slow to integrate electronic invoicing. Why is this suprising? The reasons for the slow adopting include tardy implementation of purchase to...
As the mass grounding of aircraft across most of Europe is about to enter its 5th day, the consequences to business of the major eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajoekull in Iceland are just beginning to be contemplated. The priority thus far has been to get stranded...