Sourcing software outside the US
28 August 2012
Q: I work for a company in Northern Ireland that is interested in sourcing some e-requisitioning software. I checked the Internet, but it seems to list only US companies. Are there any closer to home?
A: Beth Barling, senior analyst of European research at AMR Research, writes: It is true that many well-known companies that rode the dotcom and e-business boom of the late 1990s in the early days of e-procurement came out of the US. The market grew at rocket speed but went into decline in 2001 and 2002 as IT budgets were slashed, put on...