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Research Preview: Five Transformative Strategies to Unlock More Procurement Value – Part II

By Andrew Bartolini August 14, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy

Today’s article is the second of two articles from a report that we recently published, entitled, Five Transformative Strategies to Unlock More Procurement Value, sponsored by BravoSolution and available for free download by clicking here. The current generation…

Devil’s Advocate: Does Ethical/Sustainable Sourcing Matter in Procurement?

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team August 6, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategy

One of the lessons I learned some years ago in becoming an analyst is to challenge your assumptions - to flip what you think you know about a problem upside…

Technology Round-Up – July 29, 2015

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 29, 2015Articles, Complex Categories, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

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…

Upcoming Webinar: CPO Game Changer Series: Volume 1: Early Engagement

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 27, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy

Ardent Partners and Zycus are collaborating on a research and webinar series focused on the strategies that can help CPOs elevate their organizations to the next level of performance. This…

CPO News – July 7, 2015

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 7, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategic Sourcing

Vora Ventures Names Carol Hays as VP of Strategic Sourcing Services On June 11, Vora Ventures, a Cincinnati-based private-equity firm that invests in up and coming IT providers, announced that it…

Three Strategies for Collaborative Sourcing

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 2, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

The speed and complexity of business has been increasing in recent years and shows no sign of slowing down. New geographies and supply markets have opened up; innovative technologies have…

Digging Deeper with Next-Generation Spend Analytics

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 30, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

Today's article is a preview of a report that Ardent Partners recently published entitled, Next-Gen Spend: Accelerating Procurement Performance with Data-Driven Strategies. The report is sponsored by GEP and interested readers can download it here.…

Procurement’s Function at NASA

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 29, 2015Articles, Events, General, People, Process, Strategy

Over the past several months, Ardent Partners and IBM-Emptoris have worked to bring together several best-in-class chief procurement officers around specific themes with the express aim of garnering the best…

Research Preview: Next-Gen Spend: Accelerating Procurement Performance with Data-Driven Strategies

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 22, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

AribaLIVE 2015: Looking to the Future of Business Commerce

By Andrew Bartolini June 18, 2015Articles, Events, General, Lists, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

[Publisher's Note: Today’s article is an analysis of two similar but separate presentations delivered by Ariba executives at their user conferences this spring. The first was at AribaLIVE in Las…