Building the SMB Case for Expense Management Automation
For SMB leaders, time, money, and organizational focus must be balanced to ensure that the short-term needs of the business are addressed and that the long-term goals of the business…
What Does the Future Hold for AP? (New Webinar)
Editor’s Note: Join us on Thursday, September 13 at 2pm ET for a complimentary webinar presentation based on our flagship market research report, “The State of ePayables 2018: The Future…
Set Your Course for Procurement Transformation
The fact of the matter is that most procurement organizations struggle to do things very well or even consistently well. Certainly there are groups (often referred to by Ardent Partners…
Turn the Big Data “Crisis” into Big Data Opportunities — Join us at CPO Rising 2018!
Big Data for Procurement -- Crisis, or Opportunity? With the rise of business process automation tools, cloud-based applications, mobile solutions, connected devices (i.e., the “Internet of Things”), and Big Data…
Free Research and a Chance to Register to Ardent’s Newest Webinar
In just over 24 hours, Ardent will begin a live, online discussion around its annual State of P2P market research study. This P2P-themed report is part of an ongoing dialogue…
Happy Labor Day!
The first Monday of September in the United States (and Canada) is a federal holiday called Labor Day. According to the US Department of Labor, “Labor Day is a creation of the labor…
Payables Place First Thing: The State of ePayables 2018: The Expected Trajectory of AP – Part II
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the…
Ardent Partners’ Autumn Events Round-Up
As summer turns to fall, like so many leaves will do here in New England, we at Ardent Partners wanted to take a moment to round up and highlight some of…
NEW RESEARCH SURVEY: The State of Contingent Workforce Management
From the procurement perspective, there is no more complex category of corporate spend than contingent labor. Once a simple indirect spend category that merely required some supplier optimization and eProcurement…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 310: Three Reasons Why Talent is the Gateway to the Future of Work
Another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast features a discussion of the three main reasons why “talent” (and the evolution of talent engagement) is the gateway to the…