Patrick D. Quirk, President & CEO - Emptoris, Inc.
Approximately 50 percent of the value and costs of any given company’s products or services is in the hands of suppliers, suppliers are central to risk mitigation, innovation and to controlling spending.
SandHill’s sponsors and some of our frequent content contributors predict where we’ll see the biggest competitive battles in the software ecosystem in 2012 as well as how U.S. 2012 elections will impact the software world.
What hasn't been well covered in the buzz around cloud computing is how cloud computing applications can solve core business problems. And what could be more core to business profitability than controlling non-payroll spending?