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Ardent Partners - Finding Flow in Manhattan (The Glasshouse)

Finding Flow in Manhattan: Inside Zip’s Shift from Orchestration to Autonomous Operations

By Andrew Bartolini September 21, 2026Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, Technology

Ardent Partners Coverage of the ZIP Forward 2026 Conference Gathered inside the glass-walled space of The Glasshouse in Manhattan, looking out over the flowing Hudson River, it was hard not…

Happy Labor Day!

By Andrew Bartolini September 7, 2026Articles

The first Monday of September in the United States (and Canada) is a federal holiday called Labor Day. According to the US Department of Labor, “Labor Day is a creation of the labor…

Ace Hardware Acrisure Keynotes at LevelUp

LevelUp 2026: How Levelpath (and Its Customers) Are Rewriting the Procurement AI Playbook (Part 2)

By Andrew Bartolini March 18, 2026Articles, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

LevelUp 2026: How Levelpath (and Its Customers) Are Rewriting the Procurement AI Playbook (Part 2) Today's article highlights the keynote addresses by Ace Hardware and Acrisure from Levelpath's 2026 conference.…

LevelUp 2026: How Levelpath (and Its Customers) Are Rewriting the Procurement AI Playbook (Part 1)

By Andrew Bartolini March 17, 2026Articles, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

LevelUp 2026: How Levelpath (and Its Customers) Are Rewriting the Procurement AI Playbook (Part 1) This article is the first of two that discusses Levelpath's inaugural LevelUp 2026 conference held…

Happy New Year!

By Andrew Bartolini January 1, 2026Articles, Events

Happy New Year! To commemorate the occasion (and for “auld lang syne”), we will continue to reprise a few of our favorite articles from the last year. After that, we…

Happy Thanksgiving!

By Andrew Bartolini November 27, 2025Articles, General

Whether you're watching parades, football, or the dog show, everyone at Ardent Partners wishes you a safe and Happy Thanksgiving! If you need a laugh, enjoy this clip of the…

Returning to Zycus Horizon, Building the Case for Agentic AI in Procurement

By Andrew Bartolini September 17, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Horizon 2025 North America User Conference - September 22-24 (Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, CA) After a few years away, I am excited to share with the CPO Rising community that I…

Happy Labor Day!

By Andrew Bartolini September 1, 2025Articles

The first Monday of September in the United States (and Canada) is a federal holiday called Labor Day. According to the US Department of Labor, “Labor Day is a creation of the labor…

Coupa Inspire 2025: AAA Rating – Autonomous Trade, AI, and Acquisitions

By Andrew Bartolini May 14, 2025Articles, Complex Categories, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

Through the years, Ardent Partners has attended every in-person Coupa Inspire, til now anyway (despite our plans, it was not in the cards for us this year). Nonetheless, Coupa Inspire…

Magnus Mondays — Zip Forward Europe 2025: Risk Orchestration in the Limelight

By Magnus Bergfors April 7, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending Zip’s inaugural European version of its user conference, Zip Forward. Held in London, the one-day event hosted more than 200 attendees from…