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Technology Round-Up – November 8, 2016

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team November 8, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

GEP Partners with Global Risk Management Solutions to Enhance Risk Management Capabilities On November 2, GEP, a New Jersey-based provider of procurement software and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, announced…

Advanced Sourcing and Procurement Technologies – A Series Introduction

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 21, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

The analyst team at Ardent Partners has been writing about procurement people, processes, technologies, and industry best practices that have helped to propel the profession forward even before the firm's creation.…

Going Swifter, Higher, Stronger in 2016

By Andrew Bartolini August 17, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

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…

Scanmarket: Continued Growth and an Eye on a Source-to-Settle Future

By Andrew Bartolini August 4, 2016Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

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 Spend Analysis for Superior Performance

By Andrew Bartolini July 25, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology2 Comments

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…

The Path to CPO Isn’t Better Spend Analysis (Guest Post)

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 28, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

[Editor's Note: Today's article is a guest publication from Matthew Holzapfel, Product Marketer at Tamr Inc. Ardent Partners is happy to review and feature guest publications from authors across the procurement and…

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

By Andrew Bartolini June 8, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, 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 –…

SAP Ariba Live Case Study: What AbbVie’s Spend Data “Tells” It

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team May 6, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

On Day 1 of SAP Ariba’s annual user conference, SAP Ariba Live 2016 in Las Vegas, the Ardent Partners analyst team sat in on a presentation entitled, Spend Analysis: What…

How New or Improved Technologies Can Transform Procurement – Spend Analysis and eSourcing

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 8, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology2 Comments

As Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and procurement practitioners move into 2016, they have the need and the capability for advanced technology solutions to automate and link the source-to-settle process –…

BravoSolution: Setting Its Sights on 2016 with Source-to-Settle Innovation

By Andrew Bartolini January 28, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Recently, the analyst team at Ardent Partners sat down with BravoSolution’s President and CEO, Jim Wetekamp, Vice President of Global Marketing, Andrea Brody, and Chief Strategy Officer, Florian Winterstein, for…