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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  • Back in 2005, while working for Sun Microsystems, I was delivering a keynote at a computing event in Moscow. One of...
    Bob Worrall
    Bob Worrall
    SVP and Chief Information Officer of Juniper Networks and a member of the Coupa Executive Advisory Board

    Bob has more than 25 years of experience leading high performance IT teams and contributing business value through the adoption of progressive technologies.

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  • Artificial intelligence, Fintech and robotic process automation were among the top business news trends of 2017. Not surprisingly, posts on those...
    Coupa
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  • It used to be that IT had one set of customers, and they were internal, and one system to maintain: The...
    Paul Tuxford
    Paul Tuxford
    Former CIO, The Global Fund

    Paul Tuxford is a technology thought leader in Europe, and the former CIO of The Global Fund.

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    A Turtle at the Finish Line and a Rabbit Trying to Beat it
  • Machine learning is being talked about an awful lot in the business world these days, and rightfully so, since we’ve made...
    Paddy Lawton
    Paddy Lawton
    General Manager, Coupa Spend Analytics, Coupa Software

    Paddy Lawton is the founder of London-based Spend360, which was acquired by Coupa in January of 2017. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Digital Union. He holds a BSc in Computing and Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes University.

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    Motherboard with An Image of a Brain
  • Artificial intelligence is not new, but suddenly everyone seems to be talking about it. As I explained in my last article...
    Paddy Lawton
    Paddy Lawton
    General Manager, Coupa Spend Analytics, Coupa Software

    Paddy Lawton is the founder of London-based Spend360, which was acquired by Coupa in January of 2017. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Digital Union. He holds a BSc in Computing and Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes University.

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    A businessman and a Robot.
  • Back in the day when cloud computing was new, simply delivering your software as a service from the cloud was a...
    Kendra Von Esh
    Kendra Von Esh
    Executive Strategic Advisor, Coupa

    Kendra Von Esh, a former CIO at Veolia, has been a trusted advisor and CIO for the past decade developing value added strategies and solutions transforming businesses with technology. Von Esh joined Coupa last year to leverage her executive experience and active involvement in CIO communities and industry boards to create inspiring dialogue and change strategies cross-functionally.

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  • Suddenly, the business world is all atwitter over robotic process automation (RPA), and I am talking to many business leaders who...
    Todd Dooley, CPA, CMA, CFM, CIA
    Todd Dooley, CPA, CMA, CFM, CIA
    Chief Financial Officer, CentralSquare Technologies

    Todd Dooley is a member of the Coupa Executive Advisory Board. Todd has 20+ years in a variety of finance and accounting roles at Ceridian, IBM and 3M ranging from auditing, controllership, pricing, financial analysis, financial consolidations, shared services, customer and product profitability, and FP&A systems.

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    Inside of a Robot
  • Back in January, Coupa acquired Spend360, a leader in artificial intelligence for spend management founded by Paddy Lawton, the author of...
    Paddy Lawton
    Paddy Lawton
    General Manager, Coupa Spend Analytics, Coupa Software

    Paddy Lawton is the founder of London-based Spend360, which was acquired by Coupa in January of 2017. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Digital Union. He holds a BSc in Computing and Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes University.

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    Artificial Intelligence Comes to Spend Management
  • Back in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, ERP systems ruled the enterprise technology landscape. The thinking then was that megasuites...
    Kendra Von Esh
    Kendra Von Esh
    Executive Strategic Advisor, Coupa

    Kendra Von Esh, a former CIO at Veolia, has been a trusted advisor and CIO for the past decade developing value added strategies and solutions transforming businesses with technology. Von Esh joined Coupa last year to leverage her executive experience and active involvement in CIO communities and industry boards to create inspiring dialogue and change strategies cross-functionally.

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  • Back in the early ‘90s, ERP systems revolutionized manufacturing and supply chain management, giving companies an automated way manage the end-to-end...
    Kendra Von Esh
    Kendra Von Esh
    Executive Strategic Advisor, Coupa

    Kendra Von Esh, a former CIO at Veolia, has been a trusted advisor and CIO for the past decade developing value added strategies and solutions transforming businesses with technology. Von Esh joined Coupa last year to leverage her executive experience and active involvement in CIO communities and industry boards to create inspiring dialogue and change strategies cross-functionally.

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  • What will 2017 bring for IT? We asked some of the smartest CIOs we know—Frank Yanan, Victor Tung, Paul Tuxford, and...
    Coupa
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  • SaaS is not just changing the way software is delivered. It’s changing the way software vendors and customers work together. What’s...
    Ravi Thakur
    Ravi Thakur
    Senior Vice President, Business Acceleration, Coupa Software

    Ravi Thakur has more than 20 years of experience in Enterprise software, holding executive level positions from support, development, professional services, operations, pre-sales, and more.

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  • Have you ever had to practice what you preach? I have always been on the sales side of the business, supporting...
    Amit Duvedi
    Amit Duvedi
    Vice President, Business Strategy Value Management, Coupa Software

    Prior to his role at Coupa, Amit served as VP of Consultative Sales and Strategy for SAP.

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  • The cloud has changed the way software is delivered, but it’s taken a while for the way it’s bought to catch...
    Eric Brown
    Eric Brown
    RVP, Corporate, Coupa Software

    Eric has been selling enterprise software for over 12 years to mid and large-sized companies. At Coupa, his role is to engage with prospects and customers to help companies identify outcome goals and measure value. When he’s not working, Eric enjoys time with his wife and two children at their Lake Tahoe cabin.

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  • I’ve been an Oracle customer for the last 18 years and over the course of my career, I’ve been to Oracle...
    Paul Tuxford
    Paul Tuxford
    Former CIO, The Global Fund

    Paul Tuxford is a technology thought leader in Europe, and the former CIO of The Global Fund.

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    My key takeaways from Oracle Open World