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Ardent Partners Welcomes Jacob Larsen of Maersk Group to CPO Rising 2016!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team February 17, 2016Articles, Events, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Editor's Note: Over the next few weeks we will highlight some of the outstanding executives that are presenting at the CPO Rising 2016 Summit. Today we continue the series with an…

Technology Round-Up – February 11, 2016

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team February 11, 2016Articles, General, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Accruent Announces 2015 Financial Results On January 19, Accruent, the Austin, Texas-based provider of cloud-based software solutions that manage indirect spend categories like facilities and real estate management, announced financial results for calendar…

Technology Round-Up – February 4, 2016

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team February 4, 2016Articles, General, Solution Providers, Technology

Coupa Announces Contractually Acquisition Last week, Coupa, the California-based provider of spend management solutions for the cloud, provided Ardent Partners with a briefing on its recent acquisition of Contractually, the Vancouver, Canada-based…

Onward and Upward: IBM Procurement Leverages an Ecosystem to Drive Value

By Andrew Bartolini February 3, 2016Articles, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

IBM completed its acquisition of Emptoris in February 2012, ostensibly to bolster its Smarter Commerce solution suite. There have been significant changes for Emptoris in the intervening years, and 2015…

Technology Round-Up – January 28, 2016

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team January 28, 2016Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

DocuSign Announces Winter '16 Release for DTM Platform Recently, DocuSign, the San Francisco-based provider of cloud-based digital transaction management (DTM) and electronic signature (eSignature) solutions, announced its Winter '16 Release that brings compliance…

BravoSolution: Setting Its Sights on 2016 with Source-to-Settle Innovation

By Andrew Bartolini January 28, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Recently, the analyst team at Ardent Partners sat down with BravoSolution’s President and CEO, Jim Wetekamp, Vice President of Global Marketing, Andrea Brody, and Chief Strategy Officer, Florian Winterstein, for…

Technology Round-Up – January 21, 2016

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team January 21, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Join us on March 29 & 30, 2016 at the Harvard Club of Boston for CPO Rising 2016: The Event. This executive summit will bring together business executives and supply management…

Best of 2015: What Does This Year Hold for Travel and Expense Management?

By Christopher Dwyer January 18, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Technology

Editor’s Note: As we reflect on 2015 with our “best of” series, Ardent Partners would like to invite you to our Procurement 2016: Big Trends and Predictions webinar that we are hosting…

How to Transform Procurement in Five Steps – Step Four: Knowledge Management

By Andrew Bartolini January 13, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners would like to invite you to our Procurement 2016: Big Trends and Predictions webinar that we are hosting on Thursday, January 28 at 2 PM EST. This is…

Upcoming Webinar: Procurement 2016: Big Trends and Predictions

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team January 8, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

The procurement industry is constantly evolving and shifting, forcing supply management professionals across the globe to prepare for change and respond to rapid innovation in supply markets, changing dynamics in…