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Magnus Mondays — Coupa Inspire 2024: From BSM to Margin Multipliers
Last week the Ardent Partners analyst team attended Coupa Inspire at the fashionable Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. According to Coupa, this was the largest Inspire so far... Read more
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Technology Round-Up (April 25, 2024) – Coupa and Bottomline Partner on B2B Payments
Part of the Ardent Partners team made it to Vegas this week for the Coupa Inspire conference. You can expect another article or two covering the briefings, presentations, and conversations... Read more
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Coupa Inspire at 10
Last week, thousands of procurement, supply chain, and finance professionals descended on Las Vegas for an event that has become as large and as important as any in the procurement... Read more
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Ardent Analysis: Coupa Board Accepts Thoma Bravo $8B Bid to be Taken Private
It may be December, but that doesn’t mean merger and acquisition activity has ceased. This week, news broke that Coupa Software, a leader in business spend management, entered into an... Read more
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Ardent Analysis: Coupa Buys LLamasoft, Expands Supply Chain Capabilities, and Launches Itself Further into the Age of Intelligence
Earlier this month, Coupa Software, one of the largest players in the procurement and supply management space announced that it has acquired LLamasoft, a leader in AI-powered supply chain design... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 511: A Conversation with Steve Knapp, Director of Coupa Contingent Workforce
Another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast features a conversation with Steve Knapp, Director of Coupa Contingent Workforce. Steve and I chat about the impact of direct sourcing,... Read more
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Technology Round-Up — July 3, 2019 (Coupa Inspire Edition)
Coupa Inspire was held last week, June 24-27 in Las Vegas at the chic Cosmopolitan Hotel and Conference Center. Ardent Partners’ analyst team was in attendance. During the conference, Coupa Software, the San... Read more
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Breaking News: Coupa Acquires Hiperos, Rounds out its Third-Party Risk Management Offering
This morning, Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP), the San Francisco-based spend management solutions provider, announced that it has purchased Hiperos, the New Jersey-based provider of third-party risk management (“3PM”) solutions in the cloud, for an undisclosed... Read more
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Aquiired!! Coupa Buys Aquiire and Gains Real-Time Catalog Search Capabilities
Earlier this week, Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP), the San Francisco-based spend management solutions provider, informed us that it has purchased Cincinnati-based Aquiire, the real-time procure-to-pay (P2P) and supplier management solution provider (formerly known as Vinimaya) for an undisclosed sum. Ardent Partners... Read more
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Ardent’s Analysis: Coupa Acquires VMS Provider DCR Workforce
Last Tuesday afternoon, leading business spend management and cloud solution provider, Coupa Software, announced that it had acquired the “technology assets” of Vendor Management System (“VMS”), DCR Workforce (“DCR”). Terms... Read more