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Ardent Partners Publishes Annual State of Procurement Report

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team May 5, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners’ annual CPO Rising research report is now available. Entitled, CPO Rising 2014: Convergence and authored by Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, this report presents a comprehensive, industry-wide…

Procurement’s Evolution (Part IV): Convergence with Contingent Workforce Management

By Andrew Bartolini April 16, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategy

Ardent’s State of Contingent Workforce Management report (available for complimentary download here, here, or here) features a variety of groundbreaking concepts and ideas, one being the industry’s very-first official Contingent…

April Webinars Bring May… Results (Staff Management – April 16)

By Christopher Dwyer April 13, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Events, General, Solution Providers, Technology

The analyst team at Ardent Partners has a busy month planned on the research and webinar front so over the next few days, we’ll share (and invite you to) our…

The Spring Cleaning Hit-List for Contingent Workforce Management

By Christopher Dwyer April 11, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

In celebration of the start of spring (unless you live in the Northeast, which has been stuck in a snow-covered, polar-vortex-fueled winter since after Thanksgiving), today’s CPO Rising article will…

April Webinars Bring May… Results (IQNavigator – April 15)

By Andrew Bartolini April 7, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Events, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

The analyst team at Ardent Partners has a busy month planned on the research and webinar front so over the next few days, we’ll share (and invite you to) our…

Ariba LIVE 2014: “The Outcome Economy”

By Andrew Bartolini April 4, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Events, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Ariba, an SAP company, hosted its 15th annual user conference - Ariba LIVE - March 17 - 19 at the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Conference Center in Las Vegas with a…

April Webinars Bring May… Results (Peoplefluent – April 8)

By Andrew Bartolini April 2, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Events, Strategy

The analyst team at Ardent Partners has a busy month planned on the research and webinar front so over the next few days, we’ll share (and invite you to) our…

Ariba LIVE 2014: Contingent Labor and the Overlooked Opportunity

By Christopher Dwyer March 28, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy

[Publisher's note: Our original plan for today was to publish an article focused on the "larger" themes and announcements at Aribe LIVE, but with SAP's announcement on Wednesday to acquire…

Instant Analysis: SAP Announces Plans to Acquire Fieldglass

By Christopher Dwyer March 26, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Earlier today, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced its intent to acquire Vendor Management System (VMS) provider Fieldglass, one of the world’s leading platforms for managing contingent labor and other types…

The Convergence of Supplier Management and Contingent Workforce Management

By Christopher Dwyer March 20, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Strategy

From a pure procurement perspective, it’s truly exciting when another corporate function or a very complex series of processes leans heavily on the foundation set by the procurement team. In…