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Coupa to Buy Exari, Boosting CLM in Its Business Spend Management Suite
April 16, 2019 | JP Morris
Coupa Software is buying Exari to gain its best-of-breed contract lifecycle management (CLM) offering, Coupa announced Tuesday morning. Coupa, a San Francisco-area suite provider of business spend management (BSM), said in a news release that the transaction for Boston-based Exari is expected to close in its second fiscal quarter. In a disclosure to investors, it…
ISM 2019 Houston Conference: Highlights and Musings (Part 1)
April 16, 2019 | Pierre Mitchell
A small Spend Matters team descended on ISM 2019 conference this year in Houston (next year is in Boston, where I live!) and I wanted to share some thoughts on the event and a few of the great sessions there.
Live ISM 2019 Dispatch: Building a High-Performance Procurement Team Focused on Value Creation
April 10, 2019 | Carina Kuhl
ISM 2019 featured some excellent procurement advancement and transformation case studies, such as “The Challenges of a New CPO” covered in an earlier dispatch. They are tales of aligning people, process and technology to create business value. Since getting the people side right was consistently mentioned as the most crucial — and fickle — element…
7 Half-Truths Purchase-to-Pay Providers Are Telling You - [Sponsored Article]
April 9, 2019 | Jeff Meredith, Basware
I spend a lot of time in product demos, discussing product features and functionality with the analyst community, digging into technology, and harassing our pre-sales team. I’ve gained a wealth of knowledge about purchase-to-pay software – more than you probably want – but what I’ve also learned is that there are some slippery providers out there. They…
For Procurement Problems in Government Contracting, Try These Outsider Tips
April 5, 2019 | JP Morris
Government contracting is known as a detail-oriented process that relies on plans and procedures, but Public Spend Forum is offering tips to help companies with procurement problems so they can improve the process where they can. And that involves changing your mindset, being flexible and ensuring that you have talented people. The tips come from…
The Killer Procurement Technology Application: Stupid Simple
April 1, 2019 | Jason Busch
Like a lot of my colleagues on the analyst team at Azul Partners, I’m prone to overcomplicate things rather than take the easy way out. Big, hairy, audacious concepts (and technologies) fascinate me far more than what I’ve come to call the “Stupid Simple” ones. But it is this latter group that has far greater…
Q1 2019 SolutionMap Source-to-Pay Release Notes
March 26, 2019 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
This Spend Matters SolutionMap Insider release note provides insight into the Q1 2019 SolutionMap release for Source-to-Pay, reviewing the process that we followed for this quarter’s release. The providers in the Q1 2019 Source-to-Pay SolutionMap include Coupa, Determine, GEP, Ivalua, SAP Ariba, SynerTrade and Zycus. All of these providers were required to participate in SolutionMap…
Govtech in 2019: These 8 Public Sector Start-ups Already Making a Difference
January 25, 2019 | JP Morris
Public Spend Forum (PSF), one of our sister sites, has taken a look at civic tech companies whose solutions “hold great promise for improving the way we live, work and engage within the public sector.” These emerging government technology contractors are featured in this PSF outlook for the year ahead, and the solutions focus on…
A 2019 Wish: U.S. Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership Will Learn to ‘Just Say No’
January 7, 2019 | Tom Finn
My 2019 wish is directed at healthcare’s supply chain leadership. More than encouraging investments aimed at making their supply chains more dynamic, I would like to see the gloves finally taken off and the bullying behavior of major suppliers called out for what it is. To make that happen, healthcare’s supply chain leadership must think…
Q4 2018 SolutionMap Source-to-Pay Release Notes
December 4, 2018 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
This Spend Matters SolutionMap Insider release note provides insight into the Q4 2018 SolutionMap release for Source-to-Pay, reviewing the process that we followed for this quarter’s release. The providers in the Q4 2018 Source-to-Pay SolutionMap include Coupa, Determine, GEP, Ivalua, SAP Ariba, SynerTrade and Zycus. All of these providers were required to participate in SolutionMap…
Interview with Malcolm Harrison, CIPS New CEO (Part 1 – Commercial)
November 28, 2018 | JP Morris
Malcolm Harrison took over as CEO for the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) in the summer, and he promised an interview with Spend Matters UK/EU to talk about his first “100 days” or so. Spend Matters' Peter Smith, a former CIPS president, recently caught up for a chat about where the organization is…
Supplier Relationship Management Needs a Jolt of Technology, State of Flux’s SRM Summit Finds
October 31, 2018 | Nick Heinzmann
Procurement has made significant strides in supporting supplier relationship management initiatives, but poor investment in technology could limit the potential benefits those programs can deliver in the years to come, according to State of Flux, a consulting firm that specializes in SRM and which held its annual SRM summit in Chicago on Oct. 23. Over…

Q&A: ‘Unless procurement takes a different view to management of services spend, it will continue to be difficult to get it right’ : Outsourced Procurement said : Procurement should always be seen as a collaboration. Whether that's with internal departments and s...

Suppliers and Ariba: Prisoners or Not? : K said : Agree!!! Suppliers should not have to pay for access to a customer mandated system. If they want us...

WorkMarket Partners to Offer Full Coverage Workers’ Compensation for Freelancers : Andrew Karpie said : Hi James, This article is from 2017. So not sure of what is the current status at WorkMarket for t...

5 Themes That Excite Me About Procurement & Finance Tech Venture Investing : Peter Smith said : Great stuff Jason. I might add that despite the maturity, there are still some major areas with big ...

WorkMarket Partners to Offer Full Coverage Workers’ Compensation for Freelancers : James Calbert said : Is this saying that, as a service provider, workers comp is covered by WorkMarket?...