Technology & Innovation

Compliance as a Service: What It Is and Who Needs It
In a fast-paced and evolving business world, where digitization, market volatility, and supply chain disruptions are the norm, one aspect...
Taylor Bisacky
Taylor Bisacky
Content Marketing & Storytelling Manager, Coupa Software

Taylor Bisacky is an innovative marketing professional with nearly a decade of experience in multimedia storytelling. She’s passionate about helping business leaders and organizations creatively communicate and connect with current and potential customers. She earned her Bachelor’s degrees in Marketing and Broadcast Journalism from the Pennsylvania State University. 

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  • The business world has faced unprecedented challenges due to the disruptions of 2020. At many companies, teams that were once down...
    Emily Burnette & Max Goraknick
    Emily Burnette & Max Goraknick

    Emily Burnette is a manager in Deloitte Consulting’s Supply Chain and Network Operations practice, and she focuses on global procurement transformations enabled by cloud technologies.  She has managed multiple global transformations and her work spans strategy, technology, and change management & communications teams.

    Max Goralnick is a managing director in Deloitte Consulting’s Supply Chain and Network Operations practice, focusing on Digital Procurement. He specializes in strategic sourcing, procurement transformation, performance improvement, cost reduction, supply chain strategy, and procurement strategy.

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    Deploying Your Business Spend Management Platform Virtually
  • Across the globe, we are experiencing an unprecedented supply chain disruption to our standard ways of working. To combat the impact...
    Paul Stuker
    Paul Stuker
    Director, Global Technical Solutions Consulting, Coupa Software

    Paul Stuker supports the software sales process from a technology perspective as a leader and an individual contributor.

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    Graphic to represent the cloud.
  • We know that comparing our spend performance to others in our industry offers substantial value. When we compare our company’s performance...
    Avik Ghosh
    Avik Ghosh
    Managing Director, Strategic Analytics & Operations, Coupa Software

    Avik Ghosh is a member of the Business Value Engineering team and leads Coupa’s Value Excellence Center. In his past professional experience in management consulting and structural engineering, Avik leveraged statistical analysis, probabilistic modeling, and data science to deliver real-world solutions. Avik holds an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and an M.S. in Structural Engineering & Geomechanics from Stanford University and currently resides in Southern California.

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    Community Data Is Critical To Effective Business Spend Management Benchmarking
  • Companies make enormous investments in CRM, enterprise systems, and vendor management software. So, it’s only natural that they would look to...
    Mat Calabro
    Mat Calabro
    Product Marketing Manager, Coupa Software

    Mat Calabro specializes in Coupa's CLM and S2C solutions. He lives in the Greater Boston area with his wife and son.

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    Contract Lifecycle Management and Vendor Management Software
  • How Mid-Sized Companies Using NetSuite ERP Manage Growth and Scale Massively with Coupa It’s that time of year when we’re making...
    Kelly Casey
    Kelly Casey
    Field & Account Based Marketing Marketing Manager, Coupa

    Kelly Casey holds a B.A. from Arizona State University and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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    Bar and Line graph showing significant growth.
  • Every time I’m with a group of founders, young technologists, or IT leaders, a common question I get is, “How do...
    Eric Tan
    Eric Tan
    Vice President of Business Services & IT, Coupa Software

    Eric Tan oversees Coupa’s global business technology with responsibility for the internal deployment of Coupa's Business Spend Management products. Prior to Coupa, Mr. Tan served in leadership roles at PwC and EY.

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    Man Jumping Across Arrows
  • Digital transformation is significantly altering our world, moving the physical aspects of doing many things to the digital pipe. For example...
    Mickey North Rizza
    Mickey North Rizza
    IDC

    Mickey North Rizza is program vice president for IDC’s Enterprise Applications and Digital Commerce research practice. She leads a team of analysts responsible for IDC’s coverage of the next generation of enterprise applications including ERP, financial applications, procurement, supply chain automation project and portfolio management, enterprise asset management, services resource planning (SRP) and related project-based solutions software and the digital commerce business network.

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    Procurement professional looking out of her building.
  • What’s the best way for a company to take on digital transformation? If you had asked me that two years ago...
    Eric Tan
    Eric Tan
    Vice President of Business Services & IT, Coupa Software

    Eric Tan oversees Coupa’s global business technology with responsibility for the internal deployment of Coupa's Business Spend Management products. Prior to Coupa, Mr. Tan served in leadership roles at PwC and EY.

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    Becoming an IT Leader: An Insider’s Guide to Digital Transformation
  • A couple of years ago, I went to a conference on accounts payable automation, and I saw something I hadn’t seen...
    Donna Wilczek
    Donna Wilczek
    Senior Vice President, Strategy and Innovation, Coupa Software

    She is an executive sponsor of the Coupa Executive Advisory Board and an inventor with multiple software patents.

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    Computer Code
  • Just 8 years ago, we were under the heavy shadow of the global financial crisis. The unemployment rate soared, nearing 10%...
    Suhas Sreedhar
    Suhas Sreedhar
    Senior Content Marketing Manager, Coupa Software

    Suhas Sreedhar is a writer, journalist, and content marketer who loves telling stories about complex ideas to make them digestible. He also really enjoy storytelling through different media like articles, infographics, podcasts, videos, and interactive apps.

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    A Gage with an Arrow on Talent Needed
  • Unifying business spend management with technology isn’t just a system implementation. It’s a change program with far-reaching effects. The very act...
    Neil Patterson
    Neil Patterson
    Sales Director, Xoomworks Procurement Consultancy, Coupa’s largest European implementation partner

    Neil has over 30 years of technical and sales experience in the IT industry, including building and selling two venture-funded technology startups.

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    Boxes with Check Marks
  • IT and procurement have a long-standing relationship, since IT is one of the biggest categories that procurement is managing in most...
    Coupa
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    3 CIOs speaking about business spend management.
  • Although IT leaders take great pride in maintaining existing systems, enhancing critical applications and responding to the requests of their end...
    Mark Settle
    Mark Settle
    CIO, Okta

    Mark Settle is a seven-time CIO with broad business experience in the information services, enterprise software, consumer products, high-tech distribution, financial services and oil and gas industries. He has led IT organizations that supported the global operations of Fortune 500 companies, maintained the R&D infrastructure required for software product development, and hosted customer-facing delivery systems for commercial products and services. Settle serves on the advisory boards of several Silicon Valley venture firms and pioneered the adoption of service management and cloud computing technologies in several large enterprises. He currently serves as the CIO of Okta, a provider of cloud-based solutions for identity and mobility management, and a Coupa customer. A version of this article previously appeared on CIO.com.

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    For a successful technology initiative, never skip these steps
  • Pause if you will for just a moment and think about the spend management environment a dozen years ago. The iPhone...
    Rob Bernshteyn
    Rob Bernshteyn
    CEO & Chairman, Coupa Software

    Rob Bernshteyn previously served as part of the executive management team at SuccessFactors (now part of SAP), running product marketing & management for this leader in HCM SaaS software. He also worked in product management at Siebel Systems, management consulting at McKinsey, and SAP systems integration consulting at Accenture. Bernshteyn holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Systems from the University of New York at Albany.

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    Is Finance ready to reap the benefits of BSM?
  • Since the Great Recession, mid-market companies have come into their own, on average recovering and growing at a much faster clip...
    Donna Wilczek
    Donna Wilczek
    Senior Vice President, Strategy and Innovation, Coupa Software

    She is an executive sponsor of the Coupa Executive Advisory Board and an inventor with multiple software patents.

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    The staying warm guide to choosing technology solutions