As I sit here in the Partner Pavillion at the Procuri Empower conference, I am staring at the SciQuest booth. And it made me think about a topic that hasn’t been covered by the other bloggers in the field to my knowledge.

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Because Procuri doesn’t have an eProcurement product, it had partnered with SciQuest to fill this gap. Now that Ariba will swallow Procuri, SciQuest will lose a sales channel.

How much will this matter?

I don’t know but, in supply chain technology, few providers can simply shrug off any sales channel loss even if it is minor.