Instant Analysis: SAP Ariba and IBM’s New Partnership
When is an acquisition not an acquisition? When two of the world's largest technology companies are involved... Earlier today, SAP Ariba and IBM announced a new and unique partnership that…
SAP Ariba Partners with IBM Emptoris to Bring Cognitive Procurement to the Masses
This morning at SAP’s annual SAPPHIRE NOW conference, SAP Ariba President, Alex Atzberger announced that his company will partner with IBM Emptoris to bring cognitive procurement to the Ariba Network…
Three MORE Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility
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 – May 4, 2017
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of procurement and supply management solution-provider news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a…
Opportunities for Direct Materials eSourcing
At this year’s SAP Ariba Live, SAP Ariba announced that they are making a strategic push into direct materials management, among other things, in an effort to expand their solution footprint,…
Pumping the Brakes on Blockchain for Procurement
Blockchain, like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive technology, is one of the hottest buzzwords in the tech industry today, and the excitement has spread to supply management. In fact, Blockchain was…
What is Blockchain for Procurement?
Blockchain, along with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive technology, is one of the hottest buzzwords in the software and technology industry today, and its notoriety has spread to the…
Technology Round-Up – April 4, 2017
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…
Ivalua Now 2017
Ivalua held its second annual Ivalua Now customer conference last week in New York City. Ivalua was founded in 2000 and offers an end-to-end suite of spend management solutions. The…
SAP Ariba Live: Making Supply Risk Management Awesome
Earlier this week, Andrew Bartolini and I attended the annual SAP Ariba LIVE conference at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. The event is one of the industry’s largest (~3200 estimated attendees) and…