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P2P Technology Round-Up – February 26, 2020

Phil Bartolini — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:00:37 +0000

Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, P2P, and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable, B2B Payments,…

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Technology Round-Up — December 11, 2019

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:00:40 +0000

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,…

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Technology Round-Up — July 24, 2019

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 10:00:17 +0000

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,…

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Meet the Winners of CPO Rising 2018 – Dennis Silva, CPO of BCNET (Innovator of the Year)

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:00:09 +0000

Last month at CPO Rising 2018 in Boston, we were very pleased to award Dennis Silva, Chief Procurement Officer at BCNET, British Columbia’s Shared Services organization for higher education, with…

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Technology Round-Up – September 20, 2018

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:00:22 +0000

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,…

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Technology Round-Up – March 29, 2018

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 10:00:31 +0000

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend…

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Payables Place First Thing: Thoughts from SAP Concur Fusion: Delivering Value to Customers, Growth though the Partner Ecosystem, and Analytics Front and Center

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:00:47 +0000

After spending the better part of last week in Las Vegas at SAP Ariba Live, this week I headed to the beautiful Pacific Northwest to attend the SAP Concur Fusion in Seattle…

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4 More Travel and Expense Management Articles You Should Read

Christopher Dwyer — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:00:04 +0000

Want to get away? Those of us in Boston, weighed down by winter, certainly do. Today, we provide a handy little compendium on T&E management articles as you plot your…

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Technology Round-Up – January 18, 2018

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:00:28 +0000

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Technology Round-Up – October 12, 2017

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:00:12 +0000

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Technology Round-Up – June 22, 2017

Christopher Dwyer — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:00:54 +0000

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of complex spend management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a…

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Technology Round-Up – May 4, 2017

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 04 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000

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…

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Technology Round-Up – March 9, 2017

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:00:37 +0000

Determine Announces Financial Results for Q3 2017 On February 9, Determine, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTRM), the Indiana-based provider of contract management and source-to-settle solutions for the cloud, announced financial results for the third quarter of Fiscal Year…

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Technology Round-Up – October 18, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:00:12 +0000

Coupa Conducts Successful IPO On Thursday, October 6, Coupa (Nasdaq: Coup), the California-based provider of spend management solutions for the cloud, made its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO), with Coupa CEO and…

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Technology Round-Up – July 8, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 10:00:37 +0000

SutiSoft Launches New Spend Management Platform On June 23, SutiSoft, a California-based provider of cloud-based software solutions, announced the release of its Spend Management Platform for upstream, procurement and downstream,…

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Tradeshift Announces Go, Hyper Acquisition at Innovation Day

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:00:47 +0000

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…

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Technology Round-Up – May 26, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 26 May 2016 10:00:23 +0000

SciQuest Announces Portfolio Savings Manager, Q1 Financial Results On May 16, North Carolina-based SciQuest (Nasdaq: SQI), which offers automated spend management solutions for procurement practitioners, announced the release of Portfolio Savings Manager (“PSM”), a…

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Coupa Inspire 2016: Coupa Expands Solution Suite Across Supply Management Ecosystem

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 16 May 2016 10:00:49 +0000

For the past 10 years, Coupa has focused on what it calls “Value-as-a-Service,” which has taken the form of a desire to drive value for its customers. This focus was…

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Technology Round-Up – April 14, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:00:01 +0000

ICon Professional Services and Synergy Services Merge, Rebrand as TalentWave On March 31, ICon Professional Services and Synergy Services, two contingent workforce management (“CWM”) solution providers that had merged in October…

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Technology Round-Up – March 24, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:00:36 +0000

E2Open Acquires Terra Technology On March 8, E2Open (NASDAQ: EOPN), a California-based provider of supply chain collaboration, planning, and execution solutions for the cloud, announced that it acquired Terra Technology, the Connecticut-based…

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Technology Round-Up – March 10, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:00:25 +0000

Tradeshift, MetaProcure Partner to Bring Managed Procurement Services to the Masses On March 8, Tradeshift, the California-based provider of supplier collaboration networks, announced that is has partnered with Georgia-based MetaProcure, a provider of…

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Technology Round-Up – February 25, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:00:02 +0000

SAP-Concur Extends its Managed Travel Program, TripLink, to French and German Markets On February 16, SAP, the parent company of travel and expense management solution provider, Concur, announced that it is extending its managed…

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Technology Round-Up – January 21, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:00:04 +0000

Join us on March 29 & 30, 2016 at the Harvard Club of Boston for CPO Rising 2016: The Event. This executive summit will bring together business executives and supply management…

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Manifest Destiny: The CPO’s Call to Expand

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:00:04 +0000

This decade, business has been gripped by an expansion fever, combining more business units, organizations, and products in response to increasing competition and the market demand for new, more differentiated,…

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Best of 2015: What Does This Year Hold for Travel and Expense Management?

Christopher Dwyer — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:00:47 +0000

Editor’s Note: As we reflect on 2015 with our “best of” series, Ardent Partners would like to invite you to our Procurement 2016: Big Trends and Predictions webinar that we are hosting…

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Why the Contingent Workforce Space Can Benefit from an “Ecosystem” Approach

Christopher Dwyer — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:00:16 +0000

Editor’s Note: Join Christopher J. Dwyer at CPO Rising 2016 and hear it from the man himself on the importance of taking a holistic view of your workforce in 2016 and beyond. Don’t…

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What Does 2016 Hold for Events Management?

Christopher Dwyer — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:00:19 +0000

Editor’s Note: Speaking of events management in 2016, Andrew Bartolini, Ardent Partners’ Managing Partner, invites you to our inaugural CPO Rising Procurement Executive Summit that we’re holding in Boston in…

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Technology Round-Up – November 4, 2015

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 11:00:01 +0000

BravoSolution Deploys a Procurement Data Analytics Tool in the Cloud On October 27, BravoSolution, a Chicago-based provider of strategic sourcing solutions for procurement teams, announced that it has launched a cloud-based…

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Technology Round-Up – October 29, 2015

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:00:20 +0000

LexisNexis Acquires Legal Media Organization to Enhance Legal Risk Analysis In late July, the Dayton Business Journal reported that LexisNexis, the Dayton, Ohio-based provider of legal, media, and risk management solutions for…

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Technology Round-Up – October 16, 2015

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:00:41 +0000

IQNavigator and HR4You Partner to Enhance Contingent Workforce Management Early last month, IQNavigator, the Colorado-based provider of Vendor Management Systems (VMS) for contingent workforce management (CWM), announced that it is…

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The Rise of Analytics and Business Intelligence in Travel and Expense Management

Christopher Dwyer — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:00:50 +0000

Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a preview of a new research report written by Ardent Partners and sponsored by Certify Software, a provider of travel and expense management technology. Click…

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Technology Round-Up – September 23, 2015

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:00:43 +0000

Perfect Commerce Completes Acquisition of Hubwoo S.A. Perfect Commerce recently announced that it had finalized its acquisition of Paris-based Hubwoo S.A., which Ardent wrote about in early July shortly after the tender offer…

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How Can Enterprises Sustain High Business Traveler Morale?

Christopher Dwyer — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:00:19 +0000

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article was developed from an interview with resident Ardent Partners business travel / expense management expert, Christopher J. Dwyer, with the team at MarketWatch. To gain more…

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The Future of Travel and Expense Management: The Mobility Perplexity

Christopher Dwyer — Fri, 01 May 2015 10:00:40 +0000

[Editor’s note: CPO Rising is excited to kick off a new series of article focused on the travel and expense management (T&E) function that will help enterprises, regardless of size…

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What’s the Best Way to Maximize Your Business Travel Budget? Part I

Christopher Dwyer — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:00:04 +0000

Editor’s Note: Today’s article was developed from an interview with resident Ardent Partners business travel / expense management, Christopher J. Dwyer, with the team at MarketWatch. To gain more insight…

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The CFO’s View Of…Travel and Expense Management

Christopher Dwyer — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:00:50 +0000

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the typical organization is now tasked with more than ever before, often asked to be the “savior” of enterprises that struggle to maintain a…

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Concur Fusion and Business Network Evolution

Christopher Dwyer — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:00:53 +0000

Today’s ever-changing and dynamic business world necessitates the alignment between an enterprise, its suppliers, and the myriad processes and capabilities that are required to effectively manage corporate spend. The overarching…

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AP’s Top Trends in 2015: The Increasing Automation of Accounts Payable

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:00:05 +0000

Editor’s note: On April 16, Ardent Partners will host a complimentary webinar (sponsored by Concur) focused on the top trends in accounts payable for the year ahead (register at this link).…

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The Future of Travel and Expense Management: The Visibility Quotient

Christopher Dwyer — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:00:45 +0000

Editor’s note: CPO Rising is excited to kick off a new series of article focused on the travel and expense management (T&E) function that will help enterprises, regardless of size…

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Technology Round-Up – April 2, 2015

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 10:00:29 +0000

Concur to Release Re-Engineered Travel Risk Application by Mid Year According to Business Travel News, Concur, the Washington state-based subsidiary of SAP, has re-engineered its legacy travel and risk management…

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Deem – Moving Beyond Travel and Expense Management

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:00:37 +0000

For procurement practitioners, managing spend across multiple categories and aligning them to the larger source-to-settle process is both a challenge and a goal. Manual, disparate processes require more time and…

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What Does 2015 Hold for Travel and Expense Management?

Christopher Dwyer — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:00:19 +0000

Frequent visitors to CPO Rising will know that the complex category of business travel has increasingly become a bigger line-item at the average enterprise. In fact, the current business travel…

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Then and Now: A Technology Evolution Series, Part III: Event Management

Christopher Dwyer — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:00:22 +0000

CPO Rising is excited to publish an interesting series of articles focused on the evolution of technology solutions and automated platforms within the greater spend management spectrum. In each article,…

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Then and Now: A Technology Evolution Series, Part I: Travel and Expense Management

Christopher Dwyer — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:00:39 +0000

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Three Events Management Metrics That Matter

Christopher Dwyer — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:00:47 +0000

The world of complex spend management can often frustrate the typical procurement executive, as each category that encompasses this area has its own distinct set of capabilities, competencies, solutions, and…

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Three Tactical Expense Management Capabilities That Matter

Christopher Dwyer — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:00:28 +0000

Business travel and its related costs have risen over the past half-decade, with enterprises reinstating the travel budgets at levels that are higher than they were pre-economic downturn. Of course,…

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Three Strategic Events Management Capabilities That Matter

Christopher Dwyer — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:00:56 +0000

The world of events management has certainly evolved over the past few years. Like its “sister” category of business travel, this category was often seen as a mere cost of…

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Visibility: What Does It Mean for CPOs? (Part III)

Christopher Dwyer — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:00:50 +0000

Welcome to the final entry of a three-part article series on the concept of “visibility.” The term visibility is thrown around quite frequently in the procurement and spend management worlds,…

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Visibility: What Does It Mean for CPOs? (Part II)

Christopher Dwyer — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:00:15 +0000

Welcome to the second edition of a three-part article series on the concept of “visibility.” The term visibility is thrown around quite frequently in the procurement and spend management worlds,…

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Three Travel / Expense Management Metrics That Matter

Christopher Dwyer — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:00:51 +0000

It’s been previously stated here at CPO Rising that the business travel category has been on both a budgetary and strategic rise over the past half-decade; as more and more…

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Why 2015 Will Be a Critical Year for Events Management

Christopher Dwyer — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:00:30 +0000

Enterprises have been conducting conferences, meetings, and events for decades with the purpose of driving revenue, improving customer relationships, boosting training efforts, and reaching new audiences and communities. The industry…

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What Concur’s Partnerships with Airbnb and Uber Say About the Travel / Expense Management Industry

Christopher Dwyer — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:00:25 +0000

There’s no question that the realm of complex spend management has evolved in recent years, with categories such as business travel (and expense management) and corporate meetings and events not…

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SMB Events Management: How to Develop an Effective Program

Christopher Dwyer — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:00:40 +0000

Editor’s Note: It’s SMB week at CPO Rising and we plan to reprise a few articles (and add a few new ones) this week focused on the small and mid-sized…

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The Compliance Management Checklist, Part II: Complex Compliance

Christopher Dwyer — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:00:40 +0000

Welcome to the second article in a five-part series that will focus on how procurement, finance, and other professionals effectively build a “compliance management” checklist that addresses multiple avenues of…

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CPO Rising 2014 (Report): Convergence Fever

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:00:15 +0000

Before starting today’s article, I’d like to welcome all readers to join the Ardent Partners Supply Management Research Group on LinkedIn by clicking here. Joining this groups is one new…

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Chief Procurement Officers in 2014: Procurement’s Convergence with Business Travel

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:00:15 +0000

Ardent Partners recently published our annual CPO Rising report (entitled CPO Rising 2014: Convergence) and of all the reports we publish this year, the focus of this report is exactly geared towards our…

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Instant Analysis: ACTIVE Network and Lanyon Merge to Deliver New Offering

Christopher Dwyer — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:09:00 +0000

ACTIVE Network Business Solutions, a solution provider in the events management industry and a subsidiary of recently privatized, ACTIVE Network, and Lanyon, a leading provider of transient hotel program technology…

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Procurement’s Evolution, Part II: Convergence with Travel

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:00:18 +0000

Today, we continue our series that highlights procurement’s (and the chief procurement officer’s) evolving influence within the greater enterprise. Each of these articles will tackle a business function or enterprise…

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2014: The Year Ahead in Travel and Expense Management

Christopher Dwyer — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:00:38 +0000

Nearly every executive and corporate professional relies on business travel as a means of fostering relationships with key customers (and future clients) and staying up-to-date with other global regions of…

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The Virtual Factor

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:00:14 +0000

Publisher’s note: Since today’s topic is about virtual meetings, we’d like to take a minute to invite you to our own virtual meeting. In the age of globalization, geography becomes…

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A Collaborative Approach to Event Management

Christopher Dwyer — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:00:48 +0000

Business travel and corporate meetings/events are two of the largest expenditures for the average enterprise, and while procurement organizations often find the good ways to reduce costs within these two…

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Mobility and Complex Category Management (Part I)

Christopher Dwyer — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:00:36 +0000

In the procurement and supply management world, buzzwords come-and-go every year. Some of these fresh happenings represent a true change in the business world, while others fizzle out as their…

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Digging into the Data: Big Data’s Emergence into Travel and Expense Management

Christopher Dwyer — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:00:59 +0000

We’ve all heard the term “Big Data” and its effects on how the modern organization conducts its business. The story is as follows: the typical company sits on a veritable…

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Where Can Travel and Expense Go? (Part II)

Christopher Dwyer — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:00:36 +0000

A few weeks ago, we published posted my first article on the travel and expense management category. Click here to check out the first entry of this brief, two-part series.…

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Where Can Travel and Expense Management Go? (Part I)

Christopher Dwyer — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:00:31 +0000

On the heels of the Concur Fusion conference (discussed here by Andrew), I thought it would make sense to look at travel and expense management more closely. It was sometime…

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Concur Fusion 2013 – The Next 20 Years of Business Travel

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:00:23 +0000

Earlier this week, I was in Las Vegas for Concur’s annual user conference, Fusion. Concur, a provider of travel and expense management solutions (also ePayables solutions) has become such a…

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Innovation: Pushing Boundaries at Concur Fusion

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:00:54 +0000

Innovation will be a bigger theme at CPO Rising this year, it will also be the central focus of our major research report in the first half of 2011 [Sidebar:…

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The Social Network and Business Travel

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:00:09 +0000

After a introducing Six Trends in Business Travel that will impact your travel programs and discussing Why You Need a Dynamic Travel Policy, we’ll close this mini T&E series that…

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Why You Need a Dynamic Travel Policy

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:00:05 +0000

The category of business travel is one of the largest controllable categories of spend within the average enterprise. It remains one of the most complex to manage and it is…

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Six Trends in Business Travel

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:00:44 +0000

Business Travel or T&E is my favorite complex category of spend because (a) it is large and has many moving parts and stakeholders, (b) procurement departments with their sourcing strategies…

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Webinar: Five New Year’s Resolutions for More Effective T&E Management

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:00:47 +0000

Over the years, my supply management research has, at times, taken a process focus or a technology focus or an industry focus or a regional focus or a role focus.…

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Planes, Trains, and (Auto)-Mobility

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:00:07 +0000

After the breakup of The Sugarcubes, I was pretty sure that nothing that ever happened in Iceland would have a big impact on my life. I was wrong. Curses, Eyjafjallajökull!!!…

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Five Forces in Business Travel

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:00:35 +0000

The Masters Program in partnership with The National Business Travel Association, was held last month in Washington D.C., and by my estimation delivered on its promise to deliver an event…

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Business Travel Fusion

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:00:00 +0000

According to Wikipedia, nuclear fusion “is the process by which multiple like-charged atomic nuclei join together to form a heavier nucleus.” At its aptly named user conference (Concur Fusion) held…

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Concur Fusion 2010

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:00:29 +0000

Concur Fusion was held last week (Feb. 1-4) at the Boca Raton Resort and Club. Concur Technologies is the largest provider of what it refers to as “Employee Spend Management”…

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