An SMB Buyer’s Guide to AP Automation
Once upon a time, small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) expended significant effort to automate business processes such as accounts payable (AP). With the advent of cloud solutions, this is no…
The SMB of the Future
Today’s article is a brief snippet of a report that Ardent Partners completed for Concur entitled - The SMB of the Future: Start Fast, Then Accelerate For an entire generation, technology has…
Chief Procurement Officers in 2014: Procurement’s Convergence with Cash Management
Ardent Partners’ annual CPO Rising research report is now available. I called this year’s report, CPO Rising 2014: Convergence and it presents a comprehensive, industry-wide view into what is happening in the…
Ardent Partners Publishes Annual ePayments Rising Report
Ardent Partners will soon publish "ePayments Rising: The 2014 Market Report." This independent research report seeks to present a comprehensive, industry-wide view into what is happening in the world of…
Nipendo Offers Plug-and-Play Supplier Cloud; Connects Partners with New Communities
Complexity is the name of the game in today’s globalized, interconnected business world. Who companies are connected to and how you communicate and collaborate matters more than ever. This means…
A Proposed New Definition for “Spend under Management”
[A note from the editor: Last week, Andrew posed the question - How Do You Define Spend Under Management? - and invited others to offer up their answers because we…
Chief Procurement Officers in 2014: Procurement’s Convergence with Supply Risk Management
Ardent Partners’ annual CPO Rising research report is now available. We called this year’s report, CPO Rising 2014: Convergence and it presents a comprehensive, industry-wide view into what is happening in the…
ePayables 2014: What’s Next for AP Teams in 2014?
Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and like all of our payables reports this year the research is geared toward financial managers, executives, and…
How Do You Define Spend Under Management?
Before starting today’s article, I’d like to welcome all readers to join the Ardent Partners Supply Management Research Group on LinkedIn by clicking here. Joining this group is one new…
GEP: Differentiating Itself with a Broad (& Strong) Portfolio (II)
In the course of our work for and discussions with large procurement departments this year, GEP’s name is coming up much more frequently than just a few years ago. Impressively,…