The Top Three Priorities for AP Departments in the Year Ahead
The accounts payable (AP) function as a whole is in the midst of an automation transformation. And slowly but surely, the perception of AP is slowly changing as well. It is…
SAP Ariba Live: Making Supply Risk Management Awesome
Earlier this week, Andrew Bartolini and I attended the annual SAP Ariba LIVE conference at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. The event is one of the industry’s largest (~3200 estimated attendees) and…
Technology Round-up – March 23, 2017 (SAP Ariba Live Edition)
Earlier this week, Matt York and I attended the annual SAP Ariba LIVE conference at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. The event is one of the industry’s largest (~3200 estimated…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 133: March Listener Mailbag Edition
The Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast is live with the March edition of our monthly “listener mailbag.” During this week’s podcast, we discuss: Recent news related to the Beeline/IQN merger branding…
Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part Two
It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that “it is an exciting time to work in procurement.” And this is no less true today than it…
The Ardent Partners ePayables Framework: An Overview
The analyst team at Ardent Partners spends a lot of time discussing what we call the ePayables Framework. We discuss it at length in our market research studies. But maybe…
How to Minimize Procurement Fraud
[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest publication from Thierry Jaffry, Vice President of Operations at Simetryk, a Montreal-based provider of supplier information management solutions. Ardent Partners is happy to review and feature…
P2P Technology Round-Up – March 16, 2017
Oildex Announces New Supplier Success Program On February 22, Oildex, a leading provider of oil and gas accounting software, announced its new supplier success program. Effective April 1, Oildex will…
Beeline and IQNavigator Announce New Post-Merger Branding
The technology landscape in the world of non-employee workforce management, in recent years, has proven to be anything but static given the shifts in the speed of business, evolution of…
Why 2017 is the Year for Total Workforce Management
Editor’s Note: The Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast returns from its brief winter hiatus next week with an all-new listener mailbag edition. Next week’s episode will tackle topics such as total…