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March 27th, 2012 | Next Level Purchasing

Procurement Strategy Do's & Don'ts, Part II

How Do You Get Procurement Strategies To Succeed?

In PurchTips edition #249, I shared five sets of "do's and don'ts" for implementing new procurement strategies. In this edition, I'll share three more sets.


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March 23rd, 2012

Friday Rant: Networks are Not Panaceas

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January 18th, 2012 | Spend Matters

Coupa’s Stellar 2011 Growth is Proof that P2P Fresh Thinking is Thriving

There are lots of technology providers serving as great proxies for general market growth. For a while, we used to consider Ariba the bellwether vendor in the P2P sector, but now we tend to see the ERPs and their solution partners as more generally indicative of adoption and general trends, owing to the growth and adoption of SAP SRM, among other tools.

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January 17th, 2012 | Spend Matters

Super Coupa! Annual results impress for e-Procurement provider

We’ve featured Coupa before of course, not just because we can’t resist the inevitable puns that go with their name! Their innovative, easy to adopt / use purchase to pay and now spend analytics software (released recently as we reported here), has been making serious waves for the last couple of years in the US and now increasingly in Europe.

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January 17th, 2012 | Seeking Alpha

Competitors Converge Around Ariba

Ariba (ARBA) continues to come under fire. In my first piece, entitled “Ariba’s Competitive Threats Are Intensifying,” I discussed many growing issues…

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November 17th, 2011 | Spend Matters

A P2P Vendor Crosses the Analytics Line: Coupa Ventures Into Spend Analysis (Part 2)

When users log-on to Coupa’s Spend Optimizer solution, they are greeted with a welcome screen that allows them to quickly navigate to different reports and activity-specific dashboards. What immediately stands out about Coupa Spend Optimizer is how the solution is tightly integrated with Coupa’s P2P capability.

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November 10th, 2011 | Information Management

5 Companies that Stand Out

Five companies with standout information management implementations have been chosen by a group of information experts. This award was created to recognize solutions that are groundbreaking and provide quantifiable business value. Innovation is partly about adapting to changing environments, and these solutions demonstrated the ability to respond to dynamic business goals or introduce a new approach or idea to a company or an industry.

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August 23rd, 2011 | Memeburn

The Big Data revolution: 5 startups mining the trend

The thing about all this data is useless unless it is mined and interpreted with the right tools. Memeburn takes a look at five Silicon Valley startups and how they’re looking to use Big Data.

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August 21st, 2011 | Seeking Alpha

Ariba’s Competitive Threats Are Intensifying

With the plethora of companies trading on the stock market, it can be easy to forget that privately-held companies need to be monitored, as well. My company recently did a check into the competitive landscape for Ariba. It may come as a surprise that our checks revealed that an up-and-comer named Coupa is nearing the scale required to put a dent in ARBA’s lucrative procure-to-pay business.

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August 17th, 2011 | Inc.

The Best Back Office Software for Running Your Business

They’re not the only players in the numbers game, however. For estimating taxes, try Outright. Mint is free and as such, very popular with businesses on a tight budget. Expensify is great at—you guessed it — expense tracking, as is Coupa.

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