Magnus Mondays — What About That Spend Visibility?
Last week OpenAI released its new flagship model GPT-4o (o is for omni, as in working across audio, visuals, and text at the same time). GenAI news and hype is…
NEW WEBINAR: The Global Challenge in Financial Operations: Managing Complexity, Ensuring Compliance
Join Ardent Partners and Basware on May 29th (10 AM ET/4 PM CEST) for a webcast on The Global Challenge in Financial Operations: Managing Complexity, Ensuring Compliance. Businesses have never…
Magnus Mondays — Are RFPs For Procurement Technology Really Effective?
Today’s topic might seem a little ironic given that analysts are infamous among technology providers for issuing long and demanding questionnaires about everything under the sun. But for a buying…
Technology Round-Up — May 8, 2024
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management…
Technology Round-Up (April 25, 2024) – Coupa and Bottomline Partner on B2B Payments
Part of the Ardent Partners team made it to Vegas this week for the Coupa Inspire conference. You can expect another article or two covering the briefings, presentations, and conversations…
Magnus Mondays — Make vs. Buy: Procurement Tech Edition
Last week I tackled the question of what to do with a failed P2P implementation. This week I’ll be addressing another common question: Is it a good idea to build…
CPO Rising Listicle: Procurement AI in Action, Part 3
It's Friday, which means we're sharing another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement teams…
Magnus Mondays — Is Your Application Really the Problem?
As a long-time procurement technology analyst, one of the most frequent questions posed to me is what solution an organization should pick after a previous failed implementation. Or, in other…
NEW WEBINAR — AI Decoded: What Every CPO Needs to Know
Join Ardent Partners and Arkestro on April 24th (2 PM ET) for a webcast on AI Decoded: What Every CPO Needs to Know. In 2024, AI is seemingly “everything, everywhere,…
Magnus Mondays: Zip — One App to Rule Them All?
We’ve written about intake management and procurement process orchestration (IM&PPO) a couple of times previously. It’s certainly a topic and solution set that is gathering a lot of interest from…