CWM Technology in the Age of Innovation
Please note that my Contingent Workforce Weekly Podcast will return on the first Wednesday after Labor Day. As a reminder, Contingent Workforce Weekly is a new weekly podcast that will tackle a variety of…
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…
Announcing the Fourth Annual “State of Contingent Workforce Management” Research Study
For more than a decade, Ardent’s analyst team has tracked the progression and evolution of the contingent workforce, from its significance as a complex spend category to the burgeoning business force…
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…
The Real Impact of the Non-Employee Workforce and the Gig Economy
Editor’s Note: Catch up on the latest technology trends in the contingent workforce management space: download Ardent’s Contingent Workforce Management: 2016 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report by clicking here. Innovation…
Webinar! Procurement 2020: A Strategy Checklist for the Decade Ahead
Editor's Note: Are you free next Thursday, August 18 at 2 PM EST? Join Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer, and Matthew York, Research Analyst, of Ardent Partners for a free webinar on…
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…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – Supplier Performance Management
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 – August 5, 2016
Basware Refreshes Verian eProcurement Solution Suite On August 2, Basware, the Finland-based provider of e-invoicing and purchase-to-pay solutions, announced the summer release of Verian's eProcurement solution suite following its acquisition of the company earlier this…