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

By Andrew Bartolini July 12, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, 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 Rising 2016: Why CPOs Must Align Procurement More Closely with the Enterprise (and How)

By Andrew Bartolini July 11, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Solution Providers, Strategy

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…

Tradeshift Announces Go, Hyper Acquisition at Innovation Day

By Andrew Bartolini July 6, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, Events, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology5 Comments

On Wednesday, June 22, San Francisco-based Tradeshift held an "Innovation Day" at the Hotel Eventi in Mid-Town Manhattan where they made several major product and brand announcements and focused on its main…

CPO Rising 2016: The Continued De-Emphasis on Savings

By Andrew Bartolini July 5, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

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…

Technology Round-Up – June 30, 2016

By Andrew Bartolini June 30, 2016Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Zycus Integrates DocuSign Features into Contract Platform On June 14, Zycus, the New Jersey-based provider of source-to-pay procurement solutions, announced that it has integrated DocuSign's eSignature and Digital Transaction Management…

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

By Andrew Bartolini 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 – eSourcing

By Andrew Bartolini June 22, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, 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 –…

The Role of Technology in Today’s Contingent Workforce Programs

By Christopher Dwyer June 21, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Today’s article is another peek at the new Contingent Workforce Management: The 2016 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report, written by Ardent’s resident non-employee workforce expert, Christopher J. Dwyer.…

ISM 2016: Behind the ISM Manufacturing Index

By Andrew Bartolini June 15, 2016Articles, Events, General, People, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Last month, the Ardent Partners analyst team took the short flight out to Indianapolis to attend the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) 101st annual conference. For the second year in a row,…

Webinar! The Future of Procurement Analytics: How to Get BIG Value from BIG Data

By Andrew Bartolini June 13, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

For those working in procurement and supply management, BIG Data is a BIG opportunity...don't let it become a BIG Problem! Join Ardent Partners and Tamr on a webinar on Thursday, June 23 at 2:00 PM. Learn More and Register Now!…