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Advanced Sourcing and Procurement Technologies – A Series Introduction

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 21, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

The analyst team at Ardent Partners has been writing about procurement people, processes, technologies, and industry best practices that have helped to propel the profession forward even before the firm's creation.…

Dispatch from IBM Empower 2016

By Andrew Bartolini October 6, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

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…

Innovation Continues to Drive the Evolution of Procurement Technology (Report Preview!)

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 4, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Ardent Partners’ latest and greatest technology-focused research, Sourcing and Procurement: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report! Click here to download, has published and is now available to download. Click here to get your…

Announcing the Sourcing and Procurement: 2016-2017 Tech and Innovation Outlook Report!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 29, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Hot off the presses! Get your hands on Ardent Partners' latest and greatest technology-focused research, Sourcing and Procurement: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report! Click here to download (registration required). The business world…

The Trends (and Benefits) of Solution Suite Adoption: CPOs Take Notice

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 22, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners has been tracking the supply management solution provider market, as well as the strategies, processes, and behaviors of Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), their teams, and end users for…

The Future of Supply Risk Management

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 19, 2016Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Catching up on a few older articles that we didn't publish this summer..... At the Institute for Supply Management’s 101st annual conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, friend of the site, Mickey North Rizza,…

Genpact: A Procurement BPO Provider Swims Upstream

By Andrew Bartolini August 29, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

Genpact (Ticker: G), the business process outsourcing (“BPO”) firm, has a long history as a procurement outsourcing provider. Today's article highlights my recent conversation with Jonathan Kirby, the SVP and Practice…

Technology Round-Up – August 25, 2016

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team August 25, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Determine Announces Financial Results for Q1 2017 On August 10, Determine, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTRM), the Indiana-based provider of contract management and source-to-settle solutions for the cloud, announced financial results for the first quarter of Fiscal…

Exostar: Enhancing Security for Source-to-Settle Solutions

By Andrew Bartolini August 22, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

The Ardent Partners analyst team recently sat down with Tim Zullo, Senior Director, Sales & Marketing, and Mark Hogan, Product Manager, of Exostar, a provider of secure, cloud-based solutions for heavily-regulated industries. The two executives…

Going Swifter, Higher, Stronger in 2016

By Andrew Bartolini August 17, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

The Rio 2016 Olympics are still going full throttle through this Sunday and I've been doing my best to watch as much as I can (how about those American swimmers from…