Best of 2024: Magnus Mondays — Why Is There No “Mega Vendor” in the Procurement Space?
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2024 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year…
Part Two: Expanding Procurement’s Influence — Bridging Complexity with Orchestration
Did you miss Ardent Partners' recent webinar, Cast a Wider Net: Leveraging Innovation to Expand Procurement’s Influence and Impact, that shed light on how procurement can deliver greater value by focusing on…
Magnus Mondays — Flexibility or Control? Why Not Both?
For the last decade or so, the go-to solution for automating the Procure to Pay (P2P) process has been … wait for it … P2P suites. The P2P process covers…
Magnus Mondays — Feature, Product, or Company?
When I joined Ardent Partners a year ago, my very first article was about the proliferation of procurement solutions. My experience at the DPW conference and, perhaps to a lesser…
Magnus Mondays — Services and CoEs in a Next-Gen Procurement Tech World
During the last couple of weeks, I’ve attended a few great conferences (shoutout to Zip, Keelvar, DPW and SAP). Several discussions and observations from these conferences point to how the…
Magnus Mondays — SAP Spend Connect: Data, Intelligence, and Suite
I spent last week in Las Vegas attending SAP Spend Connect. Spend Connect is the evolution of the old Ariba Live and now covers the entirety of SAP Intelligent Spend…
Magnus Mondays — Conferences, Innovations, and Sore Feet
This time of the year is always full of conferences and last week was certainly a whirlwind! Early Tuesday morning I flew down to Amsterdam for Keelvar Konnect and on…
Magnus Mondays — Zip Forward 2024 — When Procurement Flows, Business Flows
Last week I had the pleasure of attending Zip’s annual user conference Zip Forward. It was hosted at the iconic SF Jazz in central San Francisco. It marked my second…
Magnus Mondays — A Couple of Truths on IM&PPO and S2P Solutions
This summer I’ve done considerable research into the Intake Management and Procurement Process Orchestration (IM&PPO) space. It’s a relatively new and exciting area and an example of the resurgence of…
Ivalua NOW Dispatch #4: Strategic Roadmap (Platform & AI)
The Ardent Partners analyst team recently attended the 2024 Ivalua NOW: Procurement Re-Imaged conference in Miami. This event came on the heels of the company's slightly larger EMEA conference held…