Recent Articles
| 2010/11/15 |
Analytics VI: Conclusion It all comes down to power and accessibility to business users |
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| 2010/11/08 |
Analytics V: Spend "Analysis" A look at spend analysis and its marginalization by marketing departments |
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| 2010/11/01 |
Analytics IV: OLAP: The Imperfect Answer A brief review OLAP and its limitations |
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| 2010/10/25 |
Analytics III: The Data Expert and His Warehouse Why data warehouses and recent CS graduates can't solve real-world problems |
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| 2010/10/18 |
Analytics II: What is Analysis? Part of the problem is that we don't know what we mean by "analysis" |
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| 2010/10/11 |
Analytics I: Optimization Comes of Age A BIQ-authored series on analytics kicks off with a different take on optimization |
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| 2010/01/29 |
Spend Analysis V: User-Defined Measures, Part 2 The SI series continues, showing how to use nodal computed measures and dynamic reference filters |
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| 2010/01/29 |
Spend Analysis IV: User-Defined Measures, Part 1 The SI series continues, demonstrating the power of transactional computed measures |
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| 2010/01/27 |
Spend Analysis III: Crosstabs Aren't "Analysis" The SI series continues with a look at serious analysis |
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| 2010/01/25 |
Spend Analysis II: Why Data Analysis Is Avoided The SI series continues with a discussion of why ad hoc data analysis is avoided when traditional tools are employed |
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| 2010/01/22 |
Spend Analysis I: "It's the Analysis, Stupid" A BIQ-authored Sourcing Innovation (SI) series kicks off by discussing traditional spend analysis marketing |
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| 2009/01/19 |
Key Questions to Ask Your Spend Analysis Vendor "the doctor" provides some potentially embarrassing queries |
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| 2009/01/19 | Working with Your Users: Creating Commodity Structures One size doesn't fit all |
Press Releases
Archives
| 2008/12/20 | On the Eighth Day of X-Mas ... "the doctor" makes some predictions |
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| 2008/12/08 | Buying Spend Analysis Systems: Test Drive Case Study A spend analysis case study |
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| 2008/10/27 | Commodity Structures Are Not "One Size Fits All" There's no such thing as a "standard" commodity structure |
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| 2008/10/22 | The Sourcing Maniacs 2008 Vendor Tour Part IV: BIQ The Sourcing Maniacs pay a visit to BIQ |
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| 2008/05/06 | Spend Analysis Meme Busting, Part II More misleading Spend Analysis memes |
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| 2008/04/26 | Spend Analysis Meme Busting, Part I Misleading Spend Analysis memes circulating through the space |
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| 2008/03/03 |
A Quick Start to e-Sourcing
Sometimes all it takes is a few successes to get the attention of senior management | |
| 2008/01/22 |
Sustainable Savings
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it's the price of sustainable savings as well | |
| 2008/01/10 |
It's Not Just About the Data -- It's About Acting on the Data
Spend analysis tools are tools, not carpenters | |
| 2008/01/08 |
Nine Spend Management Vendors to Watch in 2008
BIQ makes the list | |
| 2008/01/08 |
the doctor Takes His Turn With the Magic 8-Ball
"the doctor" makes some predictions | |
| 2008/01/06 |
Screwing up the Screw-Ups in BI
Baseline Magazine gets it wrong | |
| 2008/01/04 |
Analyst 2.0: The Coming Storm
Watch out analysts, here come the bloggers | |
| 2007/12/20 |
Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty -- and Contract Compliance
Trust, but monitor | |
| 2007/12/18 | The 12 Days of X-emplification: Spend Analysis
"the doctor's" wish list for Spend Analysis | |
| 2007/10/17 | Integrating Contract Management and Spend Analysis
It's easy, and doesn't require any magic | |
| 2007/10/11 |
Spend Analysis Saves
A Spend Analysis overview | |
| 2007/10/01 | The Future of Spend Analysis
In which we make a few predictions | |
| 2007/09/19 | Spend Analysis Today
"the doctor" reviews the current state of Spend Analysis | |
| 2007/09/13 | Aberdeen on Spend Analysis: Lost in the Trees
Aberdeen misses the point, again | |
| 2007/09/01 | Using Spend Analytics to Impact the Bottom Line (Sourcing Interests Group newsletter)
Tariq Hassan on Spend Analysis [Hosted with permission] | |
| 2007/08/01 | Spend Analysis and the Procurement Strategy (Procurement Professional magazine, Australia)
An overview from Down Under | |
| 2007/05/10 | Spend Analysis: What Purchasing.com Got Wrong
When the assumptions are wrong, so are the conclusions | |
| 2007/04/11 | Spend Analysis Expectations
The real work happens after ETL | |
| 2007/03/27 | Analytics vs. Optimization
In which we challenge "the doctor" in his own study area | |
| 2007/03/12 | BIQ Named Cool Vendor by Gartner Group
Thanks for the post, Dave | |
| 2007/02/26 | Spend Analysis VI: New Horizons, Part II
Where the (future) rubber hits the road, part II | |
| 2007/02/05 | Spend Analysis V: New Horizons, Part I
Where the (future) rubber hits the road | |
| 2007/02/01 | Spend Analysis IV: Defining Analysis
Put the "analysis" back in Spend Analysis | |
| 2007/01/29 | Avoiding Spend Analysis Frustration
Spend Matters links to ESF article | |
| 2007/01/29 | Spend Analysis III: Common Sense Cleansing
Dispelling some myths about data cleansing | |
| 2007/01/26 | Spend Analysis II: The Psychology of Analysis
If the analysis process isn't quick and easy, analysis won't be done | |
| 2007/01/23 | Spend Analysis I: The Value Curve
Why Spend Analysis ROI doesn't persist | |
| 2007/01/19 | There's No Spend Analysis Without the Slice-N-Dice
"the doctor" warns about data warehouse approaches to Spend Analysis | |
| 2007/01/16 | Why Spend Analysis Frustrates Those Who Need It Most
The three classes of Spend Analysis users, and how to make them happy | |
| 2006/12/03 | Spend Matters Not
"the doctor" says, "it's the analysis, stupid." | |
| 2006/11/30 | A Spend Visibility Smackdown
In which a blog comment war ensues, and we make friends with the SpendFool | |
| 2006/11/20 | Is It The Case That Spend Matters Most?
A review of spend analysis offerings | |
| 2006/11/09 | Spend Analysis: Macromap and Micromap
Commodity-specific datasets are an often-overlooked savings tool | |
| 2006/09/29 | Change Does Not Equal Refresh
Change is a fundamental part of the Spend Analysis process, and changes need to be made instantly, constantly, and effectively in order for the system to remain relevant and useful | |
| 2006/09/28 | How Clean is Clean?
Advanced data cleansing is quite easy to do | |
| 2006/09/27 | Data, Data Everywhere
There are many datasets to be built, from many different data sources | |
| 2006/09/26 | Web 2.0 Spend Analysis: Introduction
The typical Spend Analysis system suffers from Stephen Potter's "so what" diathesis | |
| 2006/09/25 | Spend Analysis 101
Introduction to the article series above | |
| 2006/08/28 | The Sourcing Innovation Series Part V
In which we make some predictions | |
| 2006/06/12 | Strategic Sourcing and Spend Analysis
"the doctor" on Spend Analysis |