Coupa Cloud Spend Management consolidates e-procurement and expense management into a single platform for managing, and more effectively controlling, all non-payroll indirect spending, offering the CFO instant visibility to organizational spending as it occurs.

Reviewing requisitions sounds like a painful process, but with Coupa, it’s fast and easy. Busy managers have everything they need to review and approve (or reject) requisitions in seconds – and don’t even need to log into the system to do it. Requisitions are consistently formatted and easy to read, and automatically routed to the right reviewers based on pre-defined approval workflows. And managers can approve (or reject) those requisitions online, through email, and on mobile devices like the Blackberry and iPhone (Coupa’s Mobile Approver is the first e-procurement application on the App Store).

We understand that when you buy software, you’re buying a lot more than just technology. You’re buying into a partnership. When you subscribe to Coupa, you’re signing up with a partner committed to working hard to earn your business every single day. Because if we don’t, it’s pretty darn easy for you to cancel your subscription and bring your business elsewhere. We can’t be successful if you’re not successful. That’s why we listen so closely to the new features and enhancements proposed by our customers, and why so many of them find their way into our quarterly product releases. We develop on Ruby on Rails (RoR) and host our solution in the Amazon Cloud, which means we can innovate quickly and deliver a solution that is easy to implement and maintain. When you subscribe to Coupa, you join a customer community that is very active in helping us develop the best cloud spend management solution on the market.

‘Implementation’ is the word you use for complex ERP applications that require hardware, software, consultants, IT support and test environments. With Coupa, you deploy and configure the application. The difference between the two – implementations are measured in months, Coupa deployments are measured in weeks. Even when integration to other enterprise applications are taken into account, the average Coupa deployment requires just ten hours of support from the Coupa services organization. And the average customer goes from contract signing to production in just ten days.

We work hard to live up to ’smarter spending, simplified’ – and that extends to how our software is configured and deployed, often without IT support.

Yep, you read that right. Ten minutes. Unless, of course, you have employees who have never used a computer before. In that case, you may need fifteen minutes.

All kidding aside, Coupa stands out for ease of use. Many e-procurement initiatives have failed because the effort required to use the system was too burdensome, or too complicated. Not with Coupa. Employees can find and requisition the goods and services they need in just a few clicks. Procurement professionals can configure and deploy the system in hours, complete with users, approval workflows, billing accounts, and more. Managers can approve or reject requisitions in seconds – online, from email, through their mobile devices. Easy. Just as it should be.