Dana Gardner

Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software and cloud productivity trends and new IT business growth opp…ortunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and enterprise infrastructure arenas for the last 18 years.Gardner tracks and analyzes a critical set of enterprise software technologies and business development issues: Cloud computing, SOA, business process management, business intelligence, next-generation data centers, and application lifecycle optimization. His specific interests include Enterprise 2.0 and social media, cloud standards and security, as well as integrated marketing technologies and techniques.Gardner is a former senior analyst at Yankee Group and Aberdeen Group, and a former editor-at-large and founding online news editor at InfoWorld. He is a former news editor at IDG News Service, Digital News & Review, and Design News.

Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, LLC, a New Hampshire-based IT analysis and new media content production and consultancy firm that he founded in 2005. He produces a series of podcast/videocast/transcript/blog content shows, called BriefingsDirect[tm/sm], some of which are sponsored and which he blogs on. Such sponsored shows are declared individually as such and by what organization or company. When Dana blogs on ZDNet on companies that he does have, or has had, consulting and/or sponsorship relationships, he declares that in each blog entry. There is no connection between the negotiation of such sponsorships and the opinions expressed by Dana here on ZDNet. The following organizations/companies are active sponsors, or have consulting relationships with Dana: Ariba/SAP, Akamai Technologies, BMC Software, Dell Software, Embarcadero Technologies, GigaOM Research, Hewlett-Packard, Kapow Software, The Open Group, VMware, and Workday. As a matter of CNET Networks and Interarbor Solutions policies, when Dana covers an organization that is also a sponsor of a BriefingsDirect-produced podcast, videocast or any other content, a disclosure will be included with the coverage. Updated (4/11/2013): Instead of providing a disclosure on just those editorials (blog posts, etc.) that intersect the above listed companies, we have changed the policy to include a link to this full disclosure at the end of every one of Dana's blog posts. In the case of audio or video-based coverage, such disclosures will be provided within the editorial content itself.

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Spot buying automated by Ariba gives start-up Koozoo a means to shop more efficiently

Using Ariba, Koozoo was able to make sophisticated decisions on small-batch purchases of unfamiliar products.

August 29, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

Here's Why Healthcare Businesses Must Efficiently Manage Their Suppliers, Purchases and Processes

MedAssets, in partnership with Ariba, an SAP company, has found ways to improve health provider and supplier compliance, reduce costs, and develop better accuracy.

August 9, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

Research: Spot buying automation delivers greater B2B procurement efficiency

According to Hackett research, collaborative spot buying provides an ad-hoc and agile, yet managed, approach for companies to acquire goods and services at low volume.

July 16, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

Cloud services help SHI redefine the buyer-seller dynamic for huge efficiency gains

SHI International has teamed with Ariba to streamline IT product discovery and purchasing processes for large agricultural machinery builder AGCO.

July 2, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

Blue Marble Media shows how mid-market cloud selling gains new life via Ariba Discovery

Blue Marble Media in Atlanta has been using so-called spot-buying capabilities on the Ariba Network and Ariba Discovery to find new sales channels and new clients in the cloud.

June 18, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

Ariba LIVE roadmap debrief: Cloud data analytics

Ariba Vice President Chris Haydon explains the company's latest news and offers insights into how Ariba will be broadening its services procurement management value, mobile push, and AribaPay rollout.

May 23, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

Ariba and Discover to transform B2B payments with cloud-based AribaPay

The new cloud-based service leverages applications and insights within Ariba Network to streamline and enhance settlement and reconciliation of business commerce.

May 8, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

Ariba, Dell Boomi to unveil collaboration enhancements for networked economy at Ariba Live conference

At its Ariba Live conference next week, Ariba will advance greater collaboration among companies with an enhanced set of tools.

May 2, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

Networked economy forcing new directions for collaboration

Rapid trends in collaboration and business networking are driving innovation and new social interactions, so BriefingsDirect invited a Harvard Kennedy School researcher and a chief strategist at business network provider Ariba to explore the ramifications.

January 15, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

Collaboration-enhanced procurement and AP automation maximize productivity and profit gains in networked economy, says Ariba's Drew Hofler

Businesses must exploit open collaboration advances in procurement and finance to produce new types of productivity benefits, say an industry analyst and Ariba executive.

November 7, 2012 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

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