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Technology Round-Up – July 29, 2015
Coupa Continues to Grow Customer Base, Revenues, and Workforce Earlier last month, Coupa, the San Francisco-based provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, announced a number of performance metrics for Q1... Read more
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Contract Management: When Collaboration Isn’t Enough, Automation Can Save the Day
Ardent Partners has written at length about the value of collaborating with internal and external stakeholders (namely, with legal departments and suppliers) to uncover hidden costs, risks, and opportunities within... Read more
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Mobile, Virtual Contract Management: From Back Office to Out-of-Office
The staff at Ardent Partners has written extensively about innovation in the supply management technology sphere over the last five years. During this time, we’ve seen the evolution of mobile... Read more
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CPO Rising’s 2015 Hot Tech Prospect – Seal Software
This week, Ardent Partners unveils its second annual list of “CPO Rising Hot Tech Prospects” where we introduce and analyze the hot new prospects in the supply management technology market... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – June 26, 2015
Coupa “Inspires” at INSPIRE 2015 Earlier this month, Coupa, the California-based spend and supply management solution provider, held its annual INSPIRE user conference in San Francisco. Ardent Partners’ analyst team was... Read more
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BravoAdvantage: Taking Sourcing and Supplier Management to the “Next Level”
Ahead of BravoSolution’s user group in London this week, we caught up with Jim Wetekamp, BravoSolution’s CEO and Andrea Brody, Bravo’s new SVP of Marketing, to get a general update and discuss... Read more
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ISM at 100: The Hidden Risks Lurking Within Supplier Relationships
Ardent Partners’ analyst team attended the 100th annual Institute for Supply Management (ISM) conference in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago. Risk, in many of its forms, was a regular topic throughout the... Read more
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Spend Analysis & Sourcing: Connecting the Sourcing Dots for Greater Value
I recently exchanged notes with a colleague who commented that recently, CPO Rising seems to have been very focused on operational procurement and complex spend management over the past month... Read more
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Instant Analysis: Selectica Acquires b-pack for $12.5 Million
Selectica (NASDAQ: SLTC) made yet another smart acquisition—its second in two years—with an agreement announced yesterday, March 30, to acquire b-pack for $12.5 million in cash and stock. The deal is... Read more
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The Real Cost of Contract Non-Compliance: A Multi-Stakeholder View
Editor’s Note: Last week, we published a couple of articles previewing our new Collaborative Contract Management report, sponsored by Iasta, and available for download here. Today’s article is a ‘spin off’ from the report, and... Read more