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Technology Round-Up – July 29, 2015

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 29, 2015Articles, Complex Categories, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Coupa Continues to Grow Customer Base, Revenues, and Workforce Earlier last month, Coupa, the San Francisco-based provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, announced a number of performance metrics for Q1…

Upcoming Webinar: CPO Game Changer Series: Volume 1: Early Engagement

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 27, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy

Ardent Partners and Zycus are collaborating on a research and webinar series focused on the strategies that can help CPOs elevate their organizations to the next level of performance. This…

Contract Management: When Collaboration Isn’t Enough, Automation Can Save the Day

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 24, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners has written at length about the value of collaborating with internal and external stakeholders (namely, with legal departments and suppliers) to uncover hidden costs, risks, and opportunities within…

What Diplomatic Relations with Cuba Could Mean for Chief Procurement Officers

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 23, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategy, Technology

With the recent news that the U.S. and Cuban governments are re-opening embassies in each other’s capital cities, the possibility that the U.S. and Cuba will eventually normalize economic relations…

ePayables 2015: AP’s Top 3 Priorities in 2015

By Andrew Bartolini July 22, 2015Articles, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

It is with great pleasure that Ardent Partners announces the publication of its latest state of accounts payable (AP) research report—“ePayables 2015: Higher Ground.” Like the annual reports that came…

Procurement Influencer Series: Patrick Stakenas of Selectica

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 21, 2015Articles, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

[Editor's note: Ardent Partners' Procurement Influencer Series continues today with a conversation between Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer of Ardent, and Patrick Stakenas, President and CEO of Selectica. Together, the…

Upcoming Webinar: How Best-in-Class Finance Leaders Optimize Their AP Performance

By Christopher Dwyer July 20, 2015Articles, Events, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

In 2015, more AP groups are accelerating their plans to transform their operations and scale to new heights by pursuing the critical attributes that can propel an operation to the…

Visibility: What Does it Mean for Suppliers?

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 17, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Technology

Our short series of articles on the concept of visibility and what it means for Chief Procurement Officers continues this month. The response to this series has been so strong…

Three Sourcing Tools to Aid Supplier Discovery

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 16, 2015Articles, Lists, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Supplier discovery is the part of the sourcing process wherein sourcing teams research the supply market and identify a list of qualified suppliers that can provide goods or services to…

Mobile, Virtual Contract Management: From Back Office to Out-of-Office

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 15, 2015Articles, General, Process, Technology

The staff at Ardent Partners has written extensively about innovation in the supply management technology sphere over the last five years. During this time, we’ve seen the evolution of mobile…