Andrew Bartolini | Procurement Analyst & CPO Research Specialist

Ardent Partners Launches Technology Evaluation Series

By Andrew Bartolini March 5, 2019Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

Ardent Partners Launches Technology Evaluation Series New Report Addresses the Accounts Payable Solutions Market BOSTON, MA, March 5, 2019 — Ardent Partners, a leading research and advisory firm, announced today that…

Monday First Thing – Where There’s Spark, There’s Fire

By Andrew Bartolini March 4, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

Event season commenced last week taking me to San Francisco for Scout RFP’s second annual Spark by Scout user conference. Held at the SF Jazz auditorium and described by CEO…

Three Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Conducting E-Auctions

By Andrew Bartolini March 1, 2019Articles, Lists, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

Publisher’s Note: Today we welcome back Jacob Gorm Larsen, longtime “friend of the site,” and a onetime Keynote Speaker at our annual CPO Rising Summit, as a guest contributor. Jacob is also the director…

Basware Terminates Discussions with Tradeshift

By Andrew Bartolini February 28, 2019Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Basware today announced that it had terminated discussions with Tradeshift in relation to a possible offer to acquire all shares in Basware. These two leaders in the procure-to-pay space had…

Throwback Thursday: Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (3)

By Andrew Bartolini February 28, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategic Sourcing

Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and…

Technology Round-Up — February 27, 2019

By Andrew Bartolini February 27, 2019Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,…

Smarter Contracts can Lead to Smarter Procurement Analytics — Here’s How (Upcoming Webinar)

By Andrew Bartolini February 25, 2019Articles, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

For some enterprise procurement teams, managing the contracting process may seem like a back-end, tactical process that does not result in anything strategic beyond a codified business relationship with a…

Monday First Thing: Are You a Specialist or a Generalist?

By Andrew Bartolini February 25, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy

“People always ask if I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a little kid. But, you have to remember when I was a farm boy growing up in…

Ardent Analysis: Corcentric to Acquire Determine, Offer Full Source-to-Settle Solution Suite

By Andrew Bartolini February 22, 2019Articles, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Last week, Corcentric, Inc, the New Jersey-based provider of financial process automation and procure-to-pay (P2P) solutions, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Determine, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTRM), the…

Throwback Thursday: Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (2)

By Andrew Bartolini February 21, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategic Sourcing