The CPO Scorecard – How to Keep Score in Procurement
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…
Best of 2015: CPO Rising 2015: The Agility Agenda – Best-in-Class Procurement Performance
Editor’s Note: This week on CPO Rising, we’re publishing a series of “best of” articles from 2015 as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.…
Best of 2015: Spend Analysis & Sourcing: Connecting the Sourcing Dots for Greater Value
Editor’s Note: This week on CPO Rising, we’re publishing five “best of” articles from 2015 as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. Enjoy! I…
The CPO’s Top Performance Metrics
Join us on March 29 & 30, 2016 at the Harvard Club of Boston for CPO Rising 2016: The Agility Agenda. This executive summit will bring together business executives and supply…
Technology Round-Up – December 3, 2015
Determine Releases Q2 Financial Results for 2016 On November 11, Determine, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTRM), the San Mateo, California-based provider of source-to-settle solutions for the cloud, announced its financial earnings for the second…
Ardent Partners Announces CPO Rising 2016 Event – March 29 & 30 (Boston, MA)
We are extremely pleased to announce that next March, a select group of Chief Procurement Officers and other business leaders will come together at the Harvard Club in Boston for…
What the Defense Contract Management Agency can Teach us about Better Buying
In an article from Federal News Radio, it was reported that the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is seeking to improve and standardize decision making among its geographically dispersed network of buyers,…
What Can Modern Contract Management Processes and Tools Do for the Enterprise?
Today’s article is the second in a series of articles centered on our Collaborative Contract Management report, sponsored by Iasta, and available for download here. In 2015, contract management has evolved from…
The Dog Days of Summer
[Editor's note: it has become somewhat of a tradition for us at CPO Rising to bring you "The Dog Days of Summer" in late August, so we thought we'd re-publish…
Technology Round-Up – July 29, 2015
Coupa Continues to Grow Customer Base, Revenues, and Workforce Earlier last month, Coupa, the San Francisco-based provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, announced a number of performance metrics for Q1…