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Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part Three

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 11, 2017Articles, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that “it is an exciting time to work in procurement.” [Sidebar: speaking of webinars... We have an exclusive event…

Technology Round-Up – April 4, 2017

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 4, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Tradeshift Adds Artificial Intelligence Capability to Platform On March 24, Tradeshift, the California-based provider of supplier collaboration networks, announced that it has added an artificial intelligence (AI) "layer" onto its business/supplier network to…

Technology Round-up – March 23, 2017 (SAP Ariba Live Edition)

By Andrew Bartolini March 23, 2017Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, Technology

Earlier this week, Matt York and I attended the annual SAP Ariba LIVE conference at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. The event is one of the industry’s largest (~3200 estimated…

Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part Two

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 21, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology3 Comments

It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that “it is an exciting time to work in procurement.” And this is no less true today than it…

The Ardent Partners ePayables Framework: An Overview

By Andrew Bartolini March 20, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

The analyst team at Ardent Partners spends a lot of time discussing what we call the ePayables Framework. We discuss it at length in our market research studies. But maybe…

How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – ePayments

By Andrew Bartolini March 13, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…

Instant Analysis: Tradeshift to Acquire IBX Business Network

By Andrew Bartolini March 8, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Today, March 8, San Francisco-based Tradeshift, the cloud-based business network, announced that it has entered into an agreement with CapGemini to acquire the latter's IBX Business Network ("IBX"). The deal is expected to close in…

How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eInvoicing

By Andrew Bartolini March 7, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…

CPO Challenge: Mapping Processes to Systems

By Andrew Bartolini March 1, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to help advance…

Technology Round-Up – February 9, 2017

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team February 9, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

GEP Publishes Procurement Outlook for 2017 On February 8, GEP, a New Jersey-based provider of procurement software and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, published its annual business and economic outlook and analysis of implications…