CPO News – September 2, 2016
PSEG Names Brian Clark VP of Procurement On August 22, Newark, New Jersey-based PSEG Services Corp. announced that it has named Brian Clark as its newest Vice President of Procurement,…
Technology Round-Up – August 25, 2016
Determine Announces Financial Results for Q1 2017 On August 10, Determine, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTRM), the Indiana-based provider of contract management and source-to-settle solutions for the cloud, announced financial results for the first quarter of Fiscal…
Exostar: Enhancing Security for Source-to-Settle Solutions
The Ardent Partners analyst team recently sat down with Tim Zullo, Senior Director, Sales & Marketing, and Mark Hogan, Product Manager, of Exostar, a provider of secure, cloud-based solutions for heavily-regulated industries. The two executives…
Going Swifter, Higher, Stronger in 2016
The Rio 2016 Olympics are still going full throttle through this Sunday and I've been doing my best to watch as much as I can (how about those American swimmers from…
CPO Rising 2016: How the Best-in-Class Manage Supplier Performance for Superior Gains
Editor’s Note: For the past few weeks, we have been featuring a series of articles based in large part on Ardent Partners’ flagship research report, CPO Rising 2016: The Art and…
Bravo’s New P2P Advantage: BravoSolution Acquires Puridiom (Instant Analysis)
Yesterday, BravoSolution, a supply management solution provider that offers a suite of strategic sourcing solutions, announced that it had acquired Puridiom, a small, but longstanding solution suite provider specializing in…
Scanmarket: Continued Growth and an Eye on a Source-to-Settle Future
The analyst team at Ardent Partners recently sat down with Ole Nielsen, Founder and Chairman of Scanmarket A/S, a European-based provider of strategic sourcing solutions that was founded in 1999.…
CPO Rising 2016: How the Best-in-Class Leverage eSourcing for Superior Performance
Editor’s Note: Today and for the next few weeks, we will feature a series of articles based in large part on Ardent Partners’ flagship research report, CPO Rising 2016: The Art…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eSourcing
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 –…
Technology Round-Up – June 17, 2016
ESM Solutions Announces New Sourcing Tool On May 18, ESM Solutions, the Pennsylvania-based company that provides SaaS-based sourcing and P2P solutions, announced the release of a new suite of sourcing solutions aptly called "ESM…