ePayables Study Hall: The Challenges
Over the next few weeks, we will spend some time focusing on ePayables by presenting an educational series– an "ePayables Study Hall," if you will – that is intended as…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 117: October Listener Mailbag
This week’s episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by ZeroChaos, is an October “listener mailbag” edition. During today’s podcast, we address and answer questions related to: The real…
Webinar! Ardent Partners’ 2016-2017 ePayables Technology and Innovation Outlook!
Join Ardent Partners and Perfect Commerce on Thursday, October 27 at 2:00 PM EST for a complimentary webinar on our ePayables: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report. Innovative technologies can, and…
Next-Gen CWM Analytics: VMS and the Path to True Intelligence
Ardent Partners has identified the components to “agile analytics” within a contingent workforce management (CWM) program, a concept that builds upon the foundation of business intelligence (BI) and applies its…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eProcurement
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 –…
Dispatch from IBM Empower 2016
Ardent's analysts attend dozens of conferences each year. Typically our coverage of an event lags the event by days (and sometimes, unavoidably, by weeks), but our research objective/goal is not…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 116: State of Contingent Workforce Management Report Preview
Welcome to another edition of the Ardent Partners and CPO Rising podcast, Continent Workforce Weekly. This week’s episode, sponsored by ZeroChaos, highlights some early research findings from the upcoming State…
Innovation Continues to Drive the Evolution of Procurement Technology (Report Preview!)
Ardent Partners’ latest and greatest technology-focused research, Sourcing and Procurement: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report! Click here to download, has published and is now available to download. Click here to get your…
The Trends (and Benefits) of Cloud-Based Technology Adoption: CPOs Take Notice
As we discussed in our latest report, Cloud-based solutions are revolutionizing the way that enterprises conduct business. These web-based versions of common business tools, like analytics or document management tools,…
Bridging the Procurement-HR Gap in Managing “Services Procurement”
"You can't really understand another person's experience until you've walked a mile in their shoes." As procurement continues to gain traction within the enterprise and manage more spend, Chief Procurement Officers and their teams must become stronger…