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The Cognitive Procurement “Ecosystem”
Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a preview of an Ardent Partners research report, Cognitive Procurement: The Age of Intelligence, sponsored by IBM Watson Commerce. Interested readers can download this exciting... Read more
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Ivalua Now 2017
Ivalua held its second annual Ivalua Now customer conference last week in New York City. Ivalua was founded in 2000 and offers an end-to-end suite of spend management solutions. The... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 134: Does the Gig Economy Have Long-Term Benefits?
Welcome to another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week, we tackle an interesting question: does the “gig economy” have long-term benefits”? What does the gig economy... Read more
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The ROI of a Best-in-Class Procurement Department – Report Preview!
Ardent Partners, in conjunction with Zycus, is pleased to present this research report, The ROI of a Best-in-Class Procurement Department. Interested readers can access the report with our compliments by... Read more
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The Top Three Priorities for AP Departments in the Year Ahead
The accounts payable (AP) function as a whole is in the midst of an automation transformation. And slowly but surely, the perception of AP is slowly changing as well. It is... Read more
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SAP Ariba Live: Making Supply Risk Management Awesome
Earlier this week, Andrew Bartolini and I attended the annual SAP Ariba LIVE conference at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. The event is one of the industry’s largest (~3200 estimated attendees) and... Read more
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Technology Round-up – March 23, 2017 (SAP Ariba Live Edition)
Earlier this week, Matt York and I attended the annual SAP Ariba LIVE conference at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. The event is one of the industry’s largest (~3200 estimated... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 133: March Listener Mailbag Edition
The Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast is live with the March edition of our monthly “listener mailbag.” During this week’s podcast, we discuss: Recent news related to the Beeline/IQN merger branding... Read more
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Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part Two
It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that “it is an exciting time to work in procurement.” And this is no less true today than it... Read more
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The Ardent Partners ePayables Framework: An Overview
The analyst team at Ardent Partners spends a lot of time discussing what we call the ePayables Framework. We discuss it at length in our market research studies. But maybe... Read more