Upcoming Webinar: Adapting to the Gig Economy
Editor's Note: Ardent Partners is excited to join DCR Workforce next Wednesday, November 2 (at 1pm Eastern) for a complimentary webinar that will focus on the impact of the "gig…
Webinar! Transforming Procurement through Agility, Collaboration, Technology, and Real-Time Data
If you're a Chief Procurement Officer or supply management leader, we must ask: what will your organization look like in three to five years? Do you know what steps you need to…
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…
Webinar! Ardent Partners’ 2016-2017 ePayables Technology and Innovation Outlook!
Join Ardent Partners and Perfect Commerce on Thursday, October 27 at 2:00 PM EST for a complimentary webinar on our ePayables: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report. Innovative technologies can, and…
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…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 116: State of Contingent Workforce Management Report Preview
Welcome to another edition of the Ardent Partners and CPO Rising podcast, Continent Workforce Weekly. This week’s episode, sponsored by ZeroChaos, highlights some early research findings from the upcoming State…
Technology Round-Up – September 27, 2016
Zycus Partners with Global Risk Management Solutions On September 09, Zycus, the New Jersey-based provider of source-to-pay procurement solutions, announced that it has partnered with Global Risk Management Solutions (GRMS), a…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 114: CWM Fantasy Draft
Welcome back to the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week’s episode, sponsored by ZeroChaos, recaps CPO Rising’s 2016 “Contingent Workforce Management” Fantasy Football draft, discusses some recent industry news (including…
Procurement Influencer Series: Rob Bernshteyn of Coupa Part II
Publisher's note: It should be noted that late last week, Coupa filed a Form S-1 with the SEC that begins its formal plans to conduct an IPO. This is big industry news.…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – Supply Risk Management
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 –…