social media

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, when thousands of people will proclaim their love to a special someone. The statistics are impressive for the holiday, with the average consumer spending $116.21 on the day, and about $13 billion spend on the holiday in the United States. That’s some impressive numbers, so it’s no wonder that many companies [...]

The underlying capabilities and drivers behind the most successful social networks can and should have the same impact in business communication and performance. As such, there is a remarkable opportunity for businesses to begin to attack the current social media gap and incorporate many of the key social media capabilities into their business tools, technologies, [...]

It’s a common mistake, when thinking about social tools, to imagine only platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn as the totality of “social media.” This couldn’t be further from the truth. In point of fact, one of the key capabilities of social media tools is the collaborative, knowledge-sharing capacity of internal knowledge management solutions, [...]

When it comes to social capabilities in the procure-to-pay process, there are a few things to consider. Specifically, enterprises need to consider which sorts of social tools to use in the P2P workflow. Today, we’re detailing a specific use-case, along with a specific service that falls into the category. We’ll have a few of these [...]

Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a brief series examining the problem of using social networking tools for procure-to-pay applications. This installment presents the issue at hand, using social media in a procure-to-pay context, and the next part of the series will discuss how to bridge the proverbial gap and make use of [...]