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Ardent’s Analysis: Coupa Acquires VMS Provider DCR Workforce
Last Tuesday afternoon, leading business spend management and cloud solution provider, Coupa Software, announced that it had acquired the “technology assets” of Vendor Management System (“VMS”), DCR Workforce (“DCR”). Terms... Read more
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What’s in the Secret Sauce? How BirchStreet Serves P2P to the Hospitality Industry
We recently spoke with friend of the site and current SVP of Marketing and Product Strategy for Birchstreet, Sundar K., for a briefing that covered the history and progression of... Read more
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Building the SMB Case for Expense Management Automation
For SMB leaders, time, money, and organizational focus must be balanced to ensure that the short-term needs of the business are addressed and that the long-term goals of the business... Read more
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Set Your Course for Procurement Transformation
The fact of the matter is that most procurement organizations struggle to do things very well or even consistently well. Certainly there are groups (often referred to by Ardent Partners... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 311: A Conversation with Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer of Ardent Partners
Welcome to another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week, we (finally) sit down for a discussion with Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, to chat about... Read more
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Ardent Partners’ Autumn Events Round-Up
As summer turns to fall, like so many leaves will do here in New England, we at Ardent Partners wanted to take a moment to round up and highlight some of... Read more
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NEW RESEARCH SURVEY: The State of Contingent Workforce Management
From the procurement perspective, there is no more complex category of corporate spend than contingent labor. Once a simple indirect spend category that merely required some supplier optimization and eProcurement... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 310: Three Reasons Why Talent is the Gateway to the Future of Work
Another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast features a discussion of the three main reasons why “talent” (and the evolution of talent engagement) is the gateway to the... Read more
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Payables Place First Thing: The Expected Trajectory of AP – Part I
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the... Read more
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Six CPO Strategies for Navigating Through and Managing Change
The interesting angle to navigating change is how exactly Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and their teams react to it; in an age when “agility” has become a desired status for... Read more