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Ardent Partners Welcomes Ramsay Chu to CPO Rising 2016 (Speaker Spotlight)

By Andrew Bartolini February 23, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing

Publisher's Note: Unfortunately, Ramsay was a last minute cancellation for CPO Rising 2016 due to a corporate-wide travel suspension. However, we expect to see him at CPO Rising 2017. Ardent Partners…

B2B ePayments: 5 Strategies to Unlock Value in Your Procure-to-Pay Chain (Upcoming Webinar)

By Andrew Bartolini February 22, 2016Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay

There is significant enterprise value hidden in the supplier, or vendor, payments that enterprises make every month. Smart organizations realize this, and have begun examining their payments process to uncover…

P2P Tech Roundup – February 18, 2016

By Andrew Bartolini February 18, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

CPO Rising regularly collects and publishes P2P news stories and general announcements on the people, companies, and events that will have the biggest impact in the P2P and AP markets…

B2B Payments 2015: The Emerging Business Value of Electronic Payments

By Andrew Bartolini February 10, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay1 Comment

Inertia takes many forms in the enterprise. One of the most subtle is hidden in the idea of always having done certain tasks a certain way. This is particularly true…

The Network Effect: How B2B Networks Can Impact Accounts Payable (Webinar)

By Andrew Bartolini February 3, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

The speed of business continues to accelerate while markets expand, shift, merge, and emerge at a pace never seen before. The result is a fast-moving and highly-competitive global marketplace that…

Onward and Upward: IBM Procurement Leverages an Ecosystem to Drive Value

By Andrew Bartolini February 3, 2016Articles, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

IBM completed its acquisition of Emptoris in February 2012, ostensibly to bolster its Smarter Commerce solution suite. There have been significant changes for Emptoris in the intervening years, and 2015…

The State of the Chief Procurement Officer in 2016 (Hypothesis)

By Andrew Bartolini February 2, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategy

Editor's Note: Our annual CPO Rising survey is now open -- The data we collect from the survey will fuel our “CPO Rising 2016” research report that will publish in March…

BravoSolution: Setting Its Sights on 2016 with Source-to-Settle Innovation

By Andrew Bartolini January 28, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Recently, the analyst team at Ardent Partners sat down with BravoSolution’s President and CEO, Jim Wetekamp, Vice President of Global Marketing, Andrea Brody, and Chief Strategy Officer, Florian Winterstein, for…

Accounts Payable Predictions for 2016: Greater Collaboration, More Automation

By Andrew Bartolini January 27, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay1 Comment

Editor’s Note: The evolving nature of accounts payable and the procure-to-pay process certainly impacts the procurement function, especially as this industry continues to expand and grow. Don’t forget to register for Ardent’s…

Ardent’s Chief Research Officer Discusses New State of B2B Payments Report (Video)

By Andrew Bartolini January 26, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay

Ardent Partners' Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini discusses Ardent's latest report "The State of B2B Payments: Emerging Business Value," an annual study that presents a definitive look at the B2B payment…