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What are the parallels between Oracle’s acquisition of PeopleSoft and JD Edwards and ProcureTech solution provider’s ORO acquisition of ProcureTech 100?

Procurement Insights

Comparing Oracles acquisition of PeopleSoft and JD Edwards (finalized January 7, 2005) with ORO Labs acquisition of ProcureTech (announced March 18, 2025, tied to the ProcureTech 100 ecosystem) reveals several parallels in strategy, market dynamics, and implications, despite differences in scale, era, and industry segment.

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Algorithms, AI Learning, Reverse Auctions and Diversity – Revisiting a 2005 keynote

Procurement Insights

Does my presentation on the future of algorithm-driven AI eProcurement technology in 2005 hold up in 2023? I also think you will find the discussion on algorithms, AI learning and even diversity fascinating here in 2023.

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Employers increasingly shed jobs, reflecting economic uncertainty

Supply Chain Dive

Hiring intentions fell to the lowest year-to-date total since data tracking began in 2005, Challenger, Gray & Christmas said.

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Why are liquid networks in procurement important to understand?

Procurement Insights

September 2005 – It is my position that a true centralization of procurement objectives requires a decentralized architecture that is based on the real-world operating attributes of all transactional stakeholders starting at the local or regional level. This was true in 1998, 2005, and 2025, and it will be true again in 2225.

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The first solution provider to mention AI loses!

Procurement Insights

GenAI and Customer Experience This Is The Future Of Education Thanks To AI And More It is safe to say that AI in 2024 is as popular a term or buzzword as SaaS in 2005 and supplier diversity in 1995. Fun side project suggestion – enter the following phrase in ChatGPT: ProcureTech buzzwords 1995 to 2025.)

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Spirit Aero, Airbus Near Critical Talks on Fate of Supplier

Supply Chain Brain

Spirit, which was spun out of Boeing in 2005, is in an increasingly stretched financial position as the U.S. planemaker slows output of its 737 aircraft.

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If ProcureTech Solution Providers Don’t Trust GenerativeAI Why Should Practitioners?

Procurement Insights

Bridging The Contradictions In 2005, I wrote a paper titled Acres Of Diamonds: The Value Of Effectively Managing Low-Dollar, High Transactional Volume Spend. ChatGPT wrote it based on an in-depth search of the Internet. Once again, the silence is deafening.