Teaches Companies there is a Better Way

Coupa today launched a new product comparison page to showcase our views of the differences between Coupa e-Procurement and Ariba Buyer. Of course, we did it Coupa Sam style, with a new (short) movie that pits our favorite Spend Samurai against procurement’s other superhero. In this first episode of a 3-part series, we take a tongue-in-cheek look at the ease-of-use problem plaguing procurement solutions, and showcase how Coupa completely simplifies the process for getting employees what they need to do their jobs, without giving up the controls you’ve come to expect from an e-procurement application.

We had some fun with the creative, but the point we’re making is serious. We are staking our claim that after nine product releases over the last 21 months and acquiring more than 100 customers, Coupa has arrived. We can’t match Ariba Buyer feature for feature, nor do we care to, but Coupa e-Procurement is a viable option for any organization considering adopting new technology to more effectively manage their procure-to-pay processes. We more than satisfy the 80/20 rule in a cloud spend management application that delivers superior value for effectively managing a company’s indirect purchasing.

Here’s our promise to any organization considering investing in an e-procurement solution: give Coupa a shot to earn your business, and we will prove to you that:

• Coupa is far and away the easiest enterprise software solution for e-procurement, making the broad adoption you need to increase spend under management an achievable opportunity.
• Coupa is the easiest solution to configure and fastest to deploy, accelerating time to value with speedy implementations.
• Coupa is the most cost effective way to manage indirect purchasing. As a true multi-tenant cloud spend management application, Coupa does not require companies to buy hardware or software or pay separately for upgrades. One subscription covers it all, and at a fraction of the cost of other solutions.
• Coupa’s executive dashboards and alerting mechanisms make it easy for managers to monitor and control spending as it occurs, and prevent departments from going over-budget.
• Coupa’s unique iRequest and iBuy features make it easier for everyone in the company to participate in company cost saving initiatives and contribute greater savings by crowd sourcing the best deals on the Web from within the e-procurement application.
• Coupa can make believers of executives skeptical of procurement’s bottom line impact. With the market’s only true performance benchmarking capabilities, companies can track their progress against 18 key performance indicators, and how they compare against the market, for metrics ranging from requisition to approval cycle times, requisition rejection rates, savings as a % of spend, and more. Give management the confidence they need that your cost savings programs are working.

So sit back, enjoy the first movie in our Schooling SpendGuy series, and share it with your friends and colleagues. And if what you see makes you scratch your head just a little, give Coupa a call. All we ask for is a chance to earn your business.