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Instant Analysis: Tradeshift to Acquire IBX Business Network

By Andrew Bartolini March 8, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Today, March 8, San Francisco-based Tradeshift, the cloud-based business network, announced that it has entered into an agreement with CapGemini to acquire the latter's IBX Business Network ("IBX"). The deal is expected to close in…

Adaptation and the Changing World of Work

By Christopher Dwyer March 8, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

H.G. Wells’ “adapt or perish” adage, now more than ever, is the contemporary business’ inexorable imperative. As heightened global competition for market share has created extraordinary pressure to execute seamlessly,…

How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eInvoicing

By Andrew Bartolini March 7, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

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 –…

Procurement Performance: Moving Beyond Savings

By Andrew Bartolini March 6, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategy

CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to help advance…

CPO Challenge: Mapping Processes to Systems

By Andrew Bartolini March 1, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

Is the Conflict Minerals Provision in Dodd-Frank Going Away?

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team February 24, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Technology

As we noted in our recent 2017 Procurement: Big Trends and Predictions webinar, the current U.S. trade policies and the regulatory environment should be tracked more closely because change is…

CWM Technology Round-Up – February 23, 2017

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team February 23, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

DCR Workforce Partners with EdgeVerve on Indirect Procurement Solution Last month, DCR Workforce, a Florida-based Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Vendor Management Systems (VMS) solution developer, announced that it has partnered with…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 132: Discussion with Milton Park Partners and Leftover Mailbag Questions

By Christopher Dwyer February 22, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

The Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast is live with another exciting edition. This week, we spoke to Wayne Surman and Jim Aiden of Milton Park Partners, a new contingent workforce solution…

The Criteria for Selecting Spend Analysis Technology

By Andrew Bartolini February 21, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Publisher's Note: Today's article is a preview from our recent report, Spend Analysis: The Foundation for Procurement Excellence, sponsored by SpendHQ. Interested readers can download this report by clicking here…

The Growing Interest in Automating B2B Payments

By Andrew Bartolini February 20, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

While the accounts payable (“AP”) function has long been one of the last bastions of manual processes in an enterprise, we have started to see a small technological evolution that…