Andrew Bartolini | Procurement Analyst & CPO Research Specialist

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

By Andrew Bartolini July 12, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, 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 –…

CPO Rising 2016: Why CPOs Must Align Procurement More Closely with the Enterprise (and How)

By Andrew Bartolini July 11, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Solution Providers, Strategy

Editor’s Note: Today and for the next few weeks, we will feature a series of articles based in large part on Ardent Partners’ flagship research report, CPO Rising 2016: The Art…

Technology Round-Up – July 8, 2016

By Andrew Bartolini July 8, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, Solution Providers, Technology

SutiSoft Launches New Spend Management Platform On June 23, SutiSoft, a California-based provider of cloud-based software solutions, announced the release of its Spend Management Platform for upstream, procurement and downstream,…

ePayables 2016: The Real Value of AP’s Data

By Andrew Bartolini July 7, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a sneak peek into the findings from Ardent Partners’ latest AP research report, “ePayables 2016: Eyes on Prize,” available for download here. Throughout June and July,…

Tradeshift Announces Go, Hyper Acquisition at Innovation Day

By Andrew Bartolini July 6, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, Events, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology5 Comments

On Wednesday, June 22, San Francisco-based Tradeshift held an "Innovation Day" at the Hotel Eventi in Mid-Town Manhattan where they made several major product and brand announcements and focused on its main…

CPO Rising 2016: The Continued De-Emphasis on Savings

By Andrew Bartolini July 5, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Editor's Note: Today and for the next few weeks, we will feature a series of articles based in large part on Ardent Partners' flagship research report, CPO Rising 2016: The…

Happy Fourth of July!

By Andrew Bartolini July 4, 2016Articles, Events, General

Five Ways to Manage Procurement Risk with Contract Management

By Andrew Bartolini July 1, 2016Articles, Events, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

Editor's Note: I was recently reminded of a conversation I had at AribaLive in Las Vegas earlier this year with a former colleague who also happens to be a lawyer.…

Technology Round-Up – June 30, 2016

By Andrew Bartolini June 30, 2016Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Zycus Integrates DocuSign Features into Contract Platform On June 14, Zycus, the New Jersey-based provider of source-to-pay procurement solutions, announced that it has integrated DocuSign's eSignature and Digital Transaction Management…

ePayables 2016: Is AP Prepared for the Decade Ahead?

By Andrew Bartolini June 29, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology