Happy Birthday to us!

4 comments August 30th, 2006 David Bush - Iasta

Today marks the One Year Anniversary of E-Sourcing Forum. Things have definitely changed since that launch when we had a handful of people peeking in every day. In a few short months, we were able to build the content value to a point where thousands of people each month come to this blog for repetitive knowledge gain and information or from highly specific search engine results.

Also in this time, blogging for supply management sake has become quite en vogue with a nice group of very valuable sites popping up in 2006. Of course, I am proud of the fact that one of the smaller companies in this industry was the unquestioned leader in launching a corporate sponsored blog dedicated to e-Sourcing and Supply Management. It can be argued that Ariba had a hand in helping to launch Spend Matters, but as Jason has very intensely defended that he has neither a master nor an agenda.

From our humble beginnings, ESF has expanded into deep dives on very strategic topics such as software adoption issues, the value of SaaS, functionality discussions, and the current state of highly volatile industry. In this time, we have lost a few vendors along the path and will surely lose a few more soon. All the while, Iasta has continued to build very robust supply management functionality with 10% of the average development teams of our peers.

The market has come to expect innovative things from Iasta and we will not disappoint. Look for more creative functionality in SmartSource and more interactive ways for purchasing teams to build knowledge and talent from Iasta’s efforts. 365 days ago, I could have never predicted the expansion of this “project” and everything that has been published as a result. I have personally met a huge number of people that I greatly respect and built relationships for Iasta that have been immensely helpful. I can only imagine what will result from Year 2 of this very simple idea that carries very real benefits to so many people.

Many thanks go to people that have helped me increase the frequency and quality of the content such as Jason Busch, Michael Lamoureux, Jason Treida, Sean Delaney and Agatha Degasperi.

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