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Technology Round-Up — December 6, 2023

By John Yuva December 6, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up Series returns today with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management solution provider…

Magnus Mondays: Procurement Tech — Suites vs. Specialists Part Four: How Your Spend Profile Impacts Your Strategy

By Magnus Bergfors December 4, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Over the last couple of weeks, we have published a series of articles on the topic of solution suites vs. specialist providers in the procurement technology space. In the first…

Magnus Mondays: Procurement Tech — Suites vs. Specialists Part Three: I Wish I Was Special

By Magnus Bergfors November 27, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

In part 1 of this series, we introduced and framed the familiar topic of suites vs. specialists in the procurement solutions space. And last week in part 2, we looked…

Magnus Mondays: Procurement Tech — Suites vs. Specialists Part Two (Home Suite Home)

By Magnus Bergfors November 20, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

In last week’s article, we kicked off our discussion on suites vs. specialist providers by discussing the primary considerations in setting an overall procurement technology strategy. Generally, it is not…

Ardent Partners Announces 2023 AP Honors Winners!

By John Yuva November 17, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Technology

The recent AP Honors Ceremony celebrated the accounts payable profession and recognized excellence in the field. During the ceremony, Ardent Partners presented awards for outstanding performance and execution in the…

Technology Round-Up — November 15, 2023

By John Yuva November 15, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

Magnus Mondays: Procurement Tech — Suites vs. Specialists Part One (Framing the Decision)

By Magnus Bergfors November 13, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

A question that keeps coming up in the procurement world is: What is the better technology strategy, investing in a broader suite (think source-to-pay) or a collection of specialist providers?…

Magnus Mondays: The Proliferation of Procurement Solutions

By Magnus Bergfors November 6, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategy, Technology

A little more than a decade ago when I joined Gartner and started out as an analyst, there were basically a handful of vendors that mattered and another handful that…

Ardent Partners Hires Magnus Bergfors, former Gartner Analyst

By Andrew Bartolini November 1, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Procurement Rising, Strategy, Technology

[Publisher’s Note: It goes without saying that we're excited to make today’s announcement. I have known Magnus for more than a decade, first as the primary procurement analyst at rival…

State of ePayables 2023: AP’s Strategic Priorities in 2023

By John Yuva October 30, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

With the release of my 18th-annual Accounts Payable-themed report, my team and I continue our nearly two-decade-long dialogue with Accounts Payable (AP), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and other finance leaders. The report…