Five Ways to Manage Procurement Risk with Contract Management
Editor's Note: I was recently reminded of a conversation I had at AribaLive in Las Vegas earlier this year with a former colleague who also happens to be a lawyer.…
Technology Round-Up – June 30, 2016
Zycus Integrates DocuSign Features into Contract Platform On June 14, Zycus, the New Jersey-based provider of source-to-pay procurement solutions, announced that it has integrated DocuSign's eSignature and Digital Transaction Management…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 106: Millennials and the Non-Employee Workforce
“Millennials” are now part of every conversation, from consumer products to the world of business. And, their generational characteristics are well-aligned with the growing (and evolving) non-employee workforce. This week’s…
ePayables 2016: Is AP Prepared for the Decade Ahead?
Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a sneak peek into the findings from Ardent Partners’ latest AP research report, “ePayables 2016: Eyes on Prize,” available for download here. Throughout June and July,…
The Path to CPO Isn’t Better Spend Analysis (Guest Post)
[Editor's Note: Today's article is a guest publication from Matthew Holzapfel, Product Marketer at Tamr Inc. Ardent Partners is happy to review and feature guest publications from authors across the procurement and…
Upcoming Webinar: ePayables 2016: Eyes on the Prize
In 2016, the accounts payable (“AP”) team is well positioned to move beyond providing value to the enterprise based on increased efficiency and towards becoming an intelligence hub for the…
ePayables 2016: AP’s Perception Problem
Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a sneak peek into the findings from Ardent Partners’ latest AP research report, “ePayables 2016: Eyes on Prize,” available for download here. Throughout June and…
Throwback Thursday: Procurement Fraud Prevention (3) – Why It’s Important
Editor’s Note: In the spirit of “Throwback Thursday,” we’re bringing our audience this gem from all the way back to late summer 2010, Ardent’s first summer. It’s been some time…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 105: What is the Impact of Disruption?
“Disruption” impacts nearly every industry. This week’s edition of Contingent Workforce Weekly discusses how disruptive strategies, solutions, and approaches have revolutionized non-employee workforce management…and how this disruption will affect talent…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eSourcing
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 –…