Black Friday – Ardent Partners’ Style
The staff at Ardent Partners has much to be grateful for this year. And so, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, we're making three of our latest research reports freely available…
Advanced Sourcing and Procurement Technologies: Optimization-based Sourcing Tools
Ardent Partners’ recent research report, Sourcing and Procurement: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report, chronicles the evolution of sourcing and procurement technologies over the last two decades to where they are today and…
Technology Round-Up – November 15, 2016
Directworks Announces Updated Sourcing and Supplier Management Tool, Directworks 4 On October 3, Directworks, the Pennsylvania-based provider of sourcing and supplier management solutions for the cloud, announced that it has…
Advanced Sourcing and Procurement Technologies: “Moneyball for Procurement”
Publisher's Note: We should note that the concept of "Moneyball for Procurement" was introduced to the world by Jacob Larsen of Maersk at the CPO Rising 2016 Summit in Boston last…
Technology Round-Up – November 8, 2016
GEP Partners with Global Risk Management Solutions to Enhance Risk Management Capabilities On November 2, GEP, a New Jersey-based provider of procurement software and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, announced…
Next-Gen CWM Analytics: Agility and Multi-Functional Value
Access to enterprise technology is sometimes limited to specific units or executive leaders, halting the free-flow of information that automation and reporting can bring to the average organization. Even some…
CPO (Virtual) Roundtable: Make Spend Management a Business Imperative
Hear from "3 CPOs" in an amazing roundtable discussion on Wednesday, November 9 at 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET! Learn the strategies that three Best-in-Class CPOs used to transform their departments. CPO…
Advanced Sourcing and Procurement Technologies – A Series Introduction
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
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!)
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…