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What Concur’s Partnerships with Airbnb and Uber Say About the Travel / Expense Management Industry

By Christopher Dwyer September 1, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

There’s no question that the realm of complex spend management has evolved in recent years, with categories such as business travel (and expense management) and corporate meetings and events not…

The SMB of the Future

By Andrew Bartolini August 26, 2014Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

Today’s article is a brief snippet of a report that Ardent Partners completed for Concur entitled - The SMB of the Future: Start Fast, Then Accelerate For an entire generation, technology has…

Nipendo Offers Plug-and-Play Supplier Cloud; Connects Partners with New Communities

By Andrew Bartolini August 18, 2014Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

Complexity is the name of the game in today’s globalized, interconnected business world. Who companies are connected to and how you communicate and collaborate matters more than ever. This means…

A Proposed New Definition for “Spend under Management”

By Andrew Bartolini August 13, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy1 Comment

[A note from the editor: Last week, Andrew posed the question - How Do You Define Spend Under Management? - and invited others to offer up their answers because we…

Beeline / OnForce Merger Signals Another Shift in the Contingent Workforce Management Industry

By Christopher Dwyer August 12, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Solution Providers, Technology1 Comment

Yesterday, Beeline, provider of Vendor Management System (VMS) software, announced that its parent company, Adecco Group, has acquired contractor / freelance management solution OnForce. The acquisition will place OnForce’s freelancer…

ePayables 2014: What’s Next for AP Teams in 2014?

By Andrew Bartolini August 8, 2014Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and like all of our payables reports this year the research is geared toward financial managers, executives, and…

GEP: Differentiating Itself with a Broad (& Strong) Portfolio (II)

By Andrew Bartolini August 5, 2014Articles, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

In the course of our work for and discussions with large procurement departments this year, GEP’s name is coming up much more frequently than just a few years ago. Impressively,…

GEP: Differentiating Itself with a Broad (& Strong) Portfolio (I)

By Andrew Bartolini August 1, 2014Articles, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

In the course of our work for and discussions with large procurement departments this year, GEP's name is coming up much more frequently than just a few years ago. Impressively,…