Andrew Bartolini | Procurement Analyst & CPO Research Specialist

SAP Ariba Live: Making Supply Risk Management Awesome

By Andrew Bartolini March 24, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

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…

Technology Round-up – March 23, 2017 (SAP Ariba Live Edition)

By Andrew Bartolini March 23, 2017Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, Technology

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…

Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part Two

By Andrew Bartolini March 21, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology3 Comments

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…

The Ardent Partners ePayables Framework: An Overview

By Andrew Bartolini March 20, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

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…

How to Minimize Procurement Fraud

By Andrew Bartolini March 17, 2017Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest publication from Thierry Jaffry, Vice President of Operations at Simetryk, a Montreal-based provider of supplier information management solutions. Ardent Partners is happy to review and feature…

P2P Technology Round-Up – March 16, 2017

By Andrew Bartolini March 16, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Oildex Announces New Supplier Success Program On February 22, Oildex, a leading provider of oil and gas accounting software, announced its new supplier success program. Effective April 1, Oildex will…

Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part One

By Andrew Bartolini March 14, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

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…

How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – ePayments

By Andrew Bartolini March 13, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…

AP Automation: How to Maximize the Value of Accounts Payable

By Andrew Bartolini March 10, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

Publisher’s Note: Today’s article is a preview from our recent report, Maximizing the Value of Accounts Payable Through Automation and Intelligence, sponsored by Certify. Interested readers can download this report by…

Technology Round-Up – March 9, 2017

By Andrew Bartolini March 9, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

Determine Announces Financial Results for Q3 2017 On February 9, Determine, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTRM), the Indiana-based provider of contract management and source-to-settle solutions for the cloud, announced financial results for the third quarter of Fiscal Year…