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CPO Rising: Keeping Score (Report Now Available)
We are pleased to announce that Ardent Partners’ annual market research report focused on the state of procurement and the Chief Procurement Officer is now available from the report’s different sponsors by clicking here, here, here, or here (registration required) The report is called CPO Rising: Keeping Score and it represents the web-based survey responses...
The Category Sourcing Scorecard is Now Available
Earlier this year, we wrote a series of posts discussing the creation of a Category Sourcing Scorecard on CPO Rising. Today, we are pleased to announce that Ardent Partners’ Category Sourcing Scorecard is now available for download by clicking here (registration required). As a reminder, the Category Sourcing Scorecard is a tool that can be...
Survey is LIVE for “CPO Rising 2012: Keeping Score”
We’d like to announce that we have just launched the survey to our major CPO-focused research effort for 2012. Starting today, you have a chance to participate in this survey and by doing so, directly help fuel our next research report and many, many future articles here on CPO Rising. Here is the survey link...
Acquisition in the Clouds: SAP to Buy Ariba for $4.3 Billion
On May 21, 2012, SAP AG, one of the world’s largest business enterprise software providers announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Ariba, a leader in cloud-based spend management solutions and owner of the largest global B2B trading network, in a deal valued at $4.3 Billion. The acquisition will allow SAP to...
ePayables Market Update – Q1 2012
We are pleased to share this free report (registration required) that is written by Vishal Patel, Ardent Partner’s Research Director and provides an update on the ePayables (Accounts Payable Automation) market for Q1, 2012. Stories include: Basware Launches New Alusta Platform Lexmark Acquires Brainware Mobile Capture for AP – It’s Real US Treasury Banks on...
Basware Expands Its Open Network with German Acquisition
THE NEWS: On January 17, 2012, Basware kicked off the New Year by announcing that it had acquired First Businesspost GmbH (“1stbp”)for €12.2 million, which includes assumption of the company’s debt (€ 3.2 million). Before we get into an analysis of the deal, here are some key figures for 1stbp in the year ended 2011:...
ePayables SMARTSet™: AP Automation Deployment Best Practices
The Ardent Partners’ SMARTSet™ (Supply Management Assessment and Research Toolkit) is a comprehensive set of research tools and templates designed to help AP organizations navigate the solution selection process and maximize the value driven from investments in AP technology (or ePayables). The five-document series includes: ePayables Business Case Template ePayables ROI Calculator ePayables RFP Template...
ePayables SMARTSet™: Solution Provider Landscape
The Ardent Partners’ SMARTSet™ (Supply Management Assessment and Research Toolkit) is a comprehensive set of research tools and templates designed to help AP organizations navigate the solution selection process and maximize the value driven from investments in AP technology (or ePayables). The five-document series includes: ePayables Business Case Template ePayables ROI Calculator ePayables RFP Template...
ePayables SMARTSet™: RFP Template
The Ardent Partners’ SMARTSet™ (Supply Management Assessment and Research Toolkit) is a comprehensive set of research tools and templates designed to help AP organizations navigate the solution selection process and maximize the value driven from investments in AP technology (or ePayables). The five-document series includes: ePayables Business Case Template ePayables ROI Calculator ePayables RFP Template...
ePayables SMARTSet™: An ROI Calculator
The Ardent Partners’ SMARTSet™ (Supply Management Assessment and Research Toolkit) is a comprehensive set of research tools and templates designed to help AP organizations navigate the solution selection process and maximize the value driven from investments in AP technology (or ePayables). The five-document series includes: ePayables Business Case Template ePayables ROI Calculator ePayables RFP Template...
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"Scoring procurement performance can be as complex and nuanced as the value that the function delivers; linking that performance to overall business objectives and results can be even more difficult. Nonetheless, it is incumbent upon CPOs to “keep score” of their team’s performance and use that opportunity to develop a set of metrics that can help procurement departments prioritize and focus their resources, track and improve their performance, and communicate how their work and results support enterprise objectives and what they plan to achieve in the future."
CPO Rising 2012: Keeping Score
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