Spend Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

Throughout the year our analyst team provides vendor-specific profiles and tech solution analyses as part of Spend Matters Insider content. Gatekeeper combines contract lifecycle management with third-party risk management, two areas that are related but usually addressed with disparate software tools.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Whatever the case, large organizations can benefit from enterprise asset management (EAM) software to manage all the physical stuff the company owns. EAM software provides a consolidated view of the company’s assets, with useful information about how they’re performing.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Integrated planning incorporates supply chain planning, demand planning, and demand forecasts so the company can quickly assess the impact on inventory levels, supply chain logistics, production plans, and customer service capacity.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In modern software and system management, observability goes beyond focusing on just one part of the stack. Technologies like distributed tracing and service mesh enable end-to-end visibility, allowing teams to understand request flows, identify latency bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues across different service boundaries.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Fact: Automation plays a crucial role in observability (and in any modern IT organization) High-performing IT departments tend to release software more frequently, and trying to keep up manually is neither sustainable nor scalable. “The reason we were able to do that is we had better visibility into our problems.”

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

An observability solution offers valuable insights to multiple stakeholders engaged in software development and operations, with benefits that extend to developers, operations teams, product managers and even business stakeholders. By monitoring application logs, developers can identify and fix errors or exceptions in their code.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

Data Modeling The ability to build more sophisticated analyses on cost drivers, demand, contracts, working capital, risk, supply chain and overall procurement performance while maintaining data that is flexible and rich enough to fully support this type of spend analytics. SaaS licenses) and supply chain planning systems.

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