Technology & Innovation

4 Strategies Higher Education Institutions Can Use to Lower Costs
The education sector is in a tough spot. Enrollment is still suffering from the impact of the pandemic, while inflation...
Mike Maxwell
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  • In early January 2023, Coupa released a new Guided Experience for requests and purchases on the homepage of our Business Spend...
    Coupa
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    New Productivity-Boosting Feature: Guided Experiences
  • Today's post is written by guest author James Misterman, VP of Customer Strategy at Mainspring. James helps clients find user-centric solutions...
    James Misterman
    James Misterman
    VP Customer Strategy, Coupa Software

    James leads clients in finding user-centric solutions to contracting challenges. He supports clients in evaluating technologies, building actionable roadmaps, and designing realistic approaches to CLM implementations.

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    Expand and Contract: How Companies Can Increase Value with Mainspring and Coupa
  • Originally Published October 22, 2021 – Updated April 19, 2023. At Coupa, one of our three core values is “Ensuring Customer...
    Ankit Narang
    Ankit Narang
    Data Science Manager at Coupa’s AI-Centre of Excellence

    Ankit Narang is a Data Science Manager at Coupa’s AI-Centre of Excellence. He has worked on a wide range of AI problems spanning from Fraud Detection, Graph Analytics to Text classification and Similarity learning. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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    Moving Expenses to Procurement with Procurable Insights
  • Today's post is written by guest author Mark Newman. As the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Mandant, Mark works on numerous...
    Mark Newman
    Mark Newman
    CTO at Mandant

    Mark Newman has been working in the integration arena since 2001 and has been involved in numerous integration projects on all levels from Developer to Integration Architect. His understanding of integration requirements from Business Processes was fundamental and key to the inspiration and idea behind the design, build, and continuous improvement of the MATRIX Coupa IPaaS solution. Mark continues to develop his knowledge to keep up with ever-changing technologies including the evolution of the Coupa product suite.

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    Integration Evolved: Mandant’s MATRIX, Coupa, and the Future of ERP
  • At Coupa, we’re building a best-of-breed ecosystem of partners that offers a wide range of services, training, and customized solutions to...
    Roger Goulart
    Roger Goulart
    EVP, Business Development and Alliances, Coupa Software

    Roger Goulart, EVP of Business Development and Alliances, is responsible for extending Coupa Software’s value through partnerships with technology and distribution partners. He brings more than twenty years of sales, alliance, business development, support and professional services management experience to Coupa.

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    Coupa Celebrates Partner Ecosystem with Second Annual Coupa Partner Connect Awards
  • Smarter allocation of a company's budget can result in both financial and environmental savings. Coupa's digital platform helps global companies make...
    Meg Hall
    Meg Hall
    Director of Product Marketing, Coupa

    Meg is an experienced product marketer with a passion for sustainability and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance). With 7 years in product marketing and 12 years in general marketing, she has a proven track record of success in product marketing, sales enablement, and go-to-market strategy. She leverages this experience to help companies identify how they can use their existing budgets for the most impact.

    Meg is an expert in creating and executing sales enablement and sales communication programs, as well as designing powerful sales presentations and customer stories. She is also highly skilled in deriving, delivering, and presenting on key data insights. Meg is committed to sustainability and ESG, and is always looking for ways to incorporate these values into her work.

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    How Microsoft Improved ESG & Sustainable Spending Decisions With AI
  • With three major software releases per year, our Product and Engineering teams must evaluate what to include in each release —...
    Lokesh Gulechha
    Lokesh Gulechha
    Lead Performance Engineer, Coupa Software

    Lokesh Gulechha, a Lead Performance Engineer based out of Pune, India, has worked at Coupa since 2020. He consistently develops and implements innovative ideas which transform business operations, enable dramatic quality improvement, increase productivity and reduce operational costs. He believes in using disruptive innovation and transformation in the technology space to enhance enterprise business. Lokesh is the author of several publications and frequently speaks at conferences and training sessions to aid others in using tech to transform business operations.

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    Our Core Values: The Key to Product Development That Drives Results
  • As enterprise software products and companies grow, the need for more tools to scale the product, expedite the process, and improve...
    Lokesh Gulechha
    Lokesh Gulechha
    Lead Performance Engineer, Coupa Software

    Lokesh Gulechha, a Lead Performance Engineer based out of Pune, India, has worked at Coupa since 2020. He consistently develops and implements innovative ideas which transform business operations, enable dramatic quality improvement, increase productivity and reduce operational costs. He believes in using disruptive innovation and transformation in the technology space to enhance enterprise business. Lokesh is the author of several publications and frequently speaks at conferences and training sessions to aid others in using tech to transform business operations.

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    Coupa Engineers Believe Hard Work Must Be Replaced With Smart Work
  • At Coupa, collaboration comes first. While we're proud of the Business Spend Management (BSM) solutions we've created and are excited to...
    Alice Cho
    Alice Cho
    Director of Channel Marketing at Coupa

    Alice leads channel marketing for Coupa’s technology partners. With over 10 years of marketing experience, Alice is focused on bringing her knowledge, curiosity, and passion in helping customers enhance their experience and realize more value.

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    CPOstrategy Recap: The Coupa Open Ecosystem
  • OAuth2 Case Studies based on HackerOne Public Disclosure Reports Even though OAuth2 has been the industry-standard authorization framework since it replaced...
    Daniel Yang
    Daniel Yang
    Sr. Software Engineer, Application Security, Coupa

    By developing a streamlined SSDLC, Daniel Yang collaborates with development teams to secure applications and their data. Daniel's experience with application security spans pen testing, security researching and building some security automation tools. He has found some vulnerabilities in a number of the most well-known web applications, including Joomla, PHPBB, Moodle and others.

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    How to Identify OAuth2 Vulnerabilities and Mitigate Risks
  • Effective search functionality is critical to enhancing Business Spend Management (BSM), especially during economic downturns when supply chain issues or travel...
    Mark Reed
    Mark Reed
    Director of Technology, Coupa

    Mark Reed is a Director of Technology at Coupa. He is passionate about search, machine learning, and technology that helps people find what they need more effectively. He has previously worked in several startups and has been with Coupa for four years. Mark holds a Computer Engineering degree from Case Western Reserve University and currently resides in the Cincinnati area in the United States.

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    3 Ways Coupa’s Development Team Designs Effective Search Functionality
  • We all know that the back office provides critical administrative and logistical support that allows front-office staff to do their jobs...
    Anthony Tate
    Anthony Tate
    Director, Product Marketing, EMEA at Coupa

    Anthony Tate is Director, Product Marketing, EMEA at Coupa. He is passionate about tech, in particular the role of people, process and technology in organisational strategy and how to successfully drive digital transformation. Anthony holds an M.A. (Dist) in Marketing Communications and a B.A.(Hons) in Commercial Studies from the University of Westminster, and he current resides in London, England.

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    It’s Time to Evolve Back-Office Operations
  • How does an engineering team transition from a scrappy, startup mindset to think in terms of scale? It takes intentionality and...
    Puneet Khushwani
    Puneet Khushwani
    Engineering Manager, Coupa

    Since graduating from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India in 2013, the ethos of my career has always been "Never Stop Building".

    The six years I spent with my first employer was a crazy rollercoaster ride, building several products all in different domains:  consumer e-commerce, private label furniture, social media application, and a SAAS product to help companies run crypto-backed token economies.

    In early 2020, I joined Coupa, a leader in the Business Spend Management community, and over the last two years with them as they’ve grown from under 1000 to nearly 3500 employees overall, I have transitioned from an individual contributor role to an Engineering Manager role.

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    How to Scale Engineering Teams from Startup to Corporate
  • Have you ever wondered why your credit card bill is so high? What did I spend it on? What is the...
    Hari Murakonda
    Hari Murakonda
    Principal of AI Centre of Excellence, Coupa

    Hari Murakonda is currently Principal of AI Centre of Excellence at Coupa and leads AI driven classification projects at Coupa. Hari comes with a background in data science with over 10 years of experience. Prior to Coupa, Hari was a Solution Architect at LLamasoft, and Opex Analytics where he led several ML driven solutions to problems in Supply chain and Operations across several fortune 500 Retail, Consumer products, and Airline companies. Hari was an early employee at Opex Analytics and played key role scaling the company, followed by acquisitions to LLamasoft and then Coupa. Hari holds Master’s degree in Analytics at Northwestern University and Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from BITS-Pilani.

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    Using AI-Driven Commodity Classification to Improve Business Spend Visibility
  • Today's post is written by guest author Alex Rich, Vice President of Alliances at SecurityScorecard. Alex has been with SecurityScorecard for...
    Alex Rich
    Alex Rich
    Vice President of Alliances at SecurityScorecard
    Alex Rich is the VP of Alliances at SecurityScorecard. He has been with the organization for over four years, having previously held leadership roles in Customer Success and Inside Sales. Prior to SecurityScorecard, Alex was a Senior Customer Success Manager at Sisense, where he was responsible for OEM and Strategic Accounts. Alex began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst in CitiGroup's healthcare division, was a co-founder of a NY-based startup (Atmospheir), and also served as a Strategic Program Manager at Booker Software.
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    Five Ways SecurityScorecard and Coupa Can Help Protect Procurement from Technology Risks