ePayables Study Hall – The Approach
We continue to build out our ePayables Study Hall series with this article focused on how to begin a push for AP transformation or “The Approach” (The first two articles are…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 118: Adapting to a New World of Work
This week’s episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by ZeroChaos, highlights how businesses today are adapting to the “new world of work” that is fueled by on-demand talent,…
Technology Round-Up – October 18, 2016
Coupa Conducts Successful IPO On Thursday, October 6, Coupa (Nasdaq: Coup), the California-based provider of spend management solutions for the cloud, made its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO), with Coupa CEO and…
Next-Gen CWM Analytics: How User-Level Flexibility Leads to Agile Analytics
The contract talent industry has experienced a strategic evolution over the past few years, one that has seen this complex category shift from an understated workforce alternative to viable corporate…
ePayables Study Hall: The Opportunities
ePayables Study Hall – The Opportunities Last time, the ePayables Study Hall series began with a look at some (but, not all) of the key challenges facing the average accounts…
ePayables Study Hall: The Challenges
Over the next few weeks, we will spend some time focusing on ePayables by presenting an educational series– an "ePayables Study Hall," if you will – that is intended as…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 117: October Listener Mailbag
This week’s episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by ZeroChaos, is an October “listener mailbag” edition. During today’s podcast, we address and answer questions related to: The real…
Next-Gen CWM Analytics: VMS and the Path to True Intelligence
Ardent Partners has identified the components to “agile analytics” within a contingent workforce management (CWM) program, a concept that builds upon the foundation of business intelligence (BI) and applies its…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eProcurement
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 –…
Dispatch from IBM Empower 2016
Ardent's analysts attend dozens of conferences each year. Typically our coverage of an event lags the event by days (and sometimes, unavoidably, by weeks), but our research objective/goal is not…