December 7, 2016 | City A.M.
These are 2016's top 100 influential leaders in fintech (part 4 of 4)
City A.M. is publishing Hot Topics' top 100 fintech influential leaders list for 2016, supported by 360Leaders.
December 1, 2016 | Finextra
DBS selects Coupa Cloud Platform for business spend
The Coupa platform will replace DBS’s current procurement systems and will be rolled out globally to more than 22,000 employees in more than 280 branches across 18 markets. The implementation will be led by KPMG in Singapore and will initially be deployed to users across Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, and India.
November 24, 2016 | Silicon Review
Welcome to a world where measurable business value is delivered as a service: Coupa Software
“Value is worthless until delivered.”
October 6, 2016 | Bloomberg
Coupa Surges After Shares in IPO Price at Top of Increased Range
Coupa Software Inc. more than doubled in its trading debut, after the company priced the shares in its initial public offering at the high end of an increased range.
Bloomberg: Coupa Surges After Shares in IPO Price at Top of Increased Range
October 6, 2016 | 24/7 Wall Street
Coupa Software More Than Doubles in IPO
Coupa Software Inc. (NASDAQ: COUP) entered the market drastically higher than what anyone really expected. The company priced its 7.4 million shares at $18 per share, at the high end of its expected pricing range of $16 to $18 per share. However, the company actually entered practically double this price. At the $18 price level, the entire offering was valued up to $153.18 million, also with consideration to its 1.11 million share overallotment option.
May 25, 2016 | PYMNTS
Will AP Rise To The Challenge As A Strategic Function Of The Enterprise?
If you think of the rise of corporate America over the last century, the function of the accounts payable department probably doesn’t come to mind as one of the main players. But something has happened over the last few years, according to Coupa VP of Strategy and Product Marketing Donna Wilczek: Technology has enabled AP professionals to become strategic and massively important to the success of any corporation, large or small.
May 17, 2016 | The Art of Procurement
The Tao of Procurement, with Jack Miles
My guest on the Art of Procurement today is John P. (Jack) Miles. There are few, if any, leaders in the procurement profession with the depth and breadth of experience as Jack. Jack has enjoyed multiple CPO roles at some of North America’s largest companies and has served as Secretary of the Florida Department of Managed Services.
May 16, 2016 | Fortune
Billionaire Richard Branson's Philosophy on Starting a New Venture: 'Screw It, Just Do It’
According to 65-year-old billionaire businessman Richard Branson, if you have an idea for a startup, one of the best decisions you can make is just to give it a try.
May 14, 2016 | App Developer Magazine
Coupa Software Releases New Cloud-Based Spend Management Solutions
Coupa Software, a cloud-based spend management solutions provider, has announced Coupa Release 15 (R15), which includes a hyperlocalized language feature that allows businesses to personalize their application language to their business vocabulary and collect end-user translation suggestions and make language changes instantly.
May 13, 2016 | Spend Matters
When Slowing Down May Speed You Up: Coupa Inspire 2016
We’ll be summarizing our current and comparative analysis of Coupa as well as our Inspire 2016 takeaways from the hundreds of company, partner and customer conversations that the Spend Matters team had at the event this week in a more detailed Spend Matters PRO analysis in the coming days.
May 13, 2016 | Supply Chain Management Review
Coupa’s New Cloud Spend Management Features Hyperlocalized Languages
Coupa Software, a cloud-based spend management solutions provider, recently announced Coupa Release 15 (R15), its second major release of the year that delivers enhancements across the platform.
May 12, 2016 | Diginomica
At Inspire, Coupa extends spend management footprint
On day two of its Inspire conference in San Francisco, cloud-based spend management vendor Coupa announced Release 15 of its source-to-pay product suite, adding a range of additional features just four months after the previous release.
May 12, 2016 | NBC Bay Area
Exclusive: Talking Tech With Sir Richard Branson
"You know, the last band I signed was the Rolling Stones..." Not a bad way to start a conversation, but really, just a regular story told from billionaire business mogul Sir Richard Branson. Yes, he's a "Sir," and yes, he was into music way before your iPod was invented.
May 12, 2016 | PYMNTS
Coupa Gets Closer To T&E With Sabre
Expense management firm Coupa is getting closer to the corporate travel space thanks to a new collaboration with Sabre. Corporate travel technology firm Sabre Corporation provides businesses with its GetThere online booking tool, a solution for businesses to ensure corporate travelers adhere to company policy while on business trips.
May 12, 2016 | Diginomica
Virgin billionaire Sir Richard Branson talks philanthropy
Billionaire Virgin entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson took to the stage at last week’s Coupa Inspire conference to talk about philanthropy, parenthood, leadership and changing the world.
May 12, 2016 | Spend Matters
A Quick Look at Suite Highlights and Coupa Release 15: Coupa Inspire 2016
Raja Hammoud, Coupa’s vice president of product management, kicked off the second day of Coupa Inspire with a morning keynote centered on the value of a suite approach to procurement technology. The core of her overall message centered on how Coupa is focused on the intersections of modules, or what she termed “suite synergy.”
May 12, 2016 | Spend Matters
Value as a Service and Design-Centered Procurement
I typically leave technology conference write-ups to my esteemed colleague Jason Busch, but I thought I’d chime in on some of my takeaways from the 2016 Coupa Inspire conference.
May 12, 2016 | CPO Rising
Coupa, Inspired!
A decade ago, as a favor to Coupa’s founders, I participated on calls with several VC firms who were looking at investing in the new start-up (Coupa). The discussions focused on market growth and general opportunities for new cloud software companies in the supply management space and in the eProcurement market in particular.
May 12, 2016 | Bloomberg
Richard Branson and Son Take on the Death Penalty
Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder, and Sam Branson, a social entrepreneur, adventurer and filmmaker, discuss how they are using the notions of entrepreneurship to achieve social change. They speak with Bloomberg's Cory Johnson on "Bloomberg Markets."
May 11, 2016 | Diginomica
Coupa CEO – we’re a ‘value as a service’ company
Forget software as a service and all the other as-a-service fads. The new mantra is value as a service, according to Rob Bernshteyn, CEO of procure-to-pay SaaS vendor Coupa. As he explained to a packed keynote audience at its annual conference in San Francisco yesterday, that means going beyond merely offering a product or service to deliver quantifiable business value.
May 11, 2016 | Spend Matters
Rob Bernshteyn on Oatmeal, Value and What’s to Come: Coupa Inspire 2016
Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn kicked off Inspire this year with a show of comic genius tying back to his personal mantra — which you can read in his new book — of “value as a service.” Using oatmeal as the focus of his opening tirade this year, he danced around the story of a failure of room service in a hotel to provide the value he wanted from a particular transaction: simply a bowl of oatmeal, on-time, without frills.
May 11, 2016 | Spend Matters
Coupa Inspire 2016: E-Procurement Customer Blocking and Tackling Still Matters
I had the chance to sit in with a small group of Coupa customers yesterday during an informal (non-sanctioned) meeting. A number of these organizations were relatively new to Coupa and were in the process of rollouts, some global, some regional.
May 10, 2016 | Accounting Today
Armanino Forges Coupa Software VAR Partnership
Armanino, provider of audit, tax, consulting and technology services and a Microsoft Dynamics and Intacct partner, announced the firm will become a value-added reseller of Coupa Software, the cloud-based spend management solution.
May 2, 2016 | CIO
10 tips to help CIOs reduce stress
The role of CIO can be a stressful one, and living under stress is something everyone should avoid. That's because overexposure to cortisol and other hormones that are released in times of stress can lead to health problems including anxiety, depression, sleep problems and heart disease.
April 11, 2016 | Art of Procurement
Why it is Critical for Procurement Technology to Provide Value to All Users
This week is Big Idea Week on the Art of Procurement – a mini series of shorter interviews with procurement thought leaders ahead of their participation in the Procurious Big Idea Summit.
March 29, 2016 | San Mateo Daily Journal
Reporters’ notebook
Developers, designers and interested citizens are invited to participate in an all-day competition to create Web and mobile apps that improve our communities. The top five winners with the best idea for an application or device will receive at least $1,500, giveaways and a chance to develop their concept in an Apps Challenge this fall.
March 16, 2016 | My Purchasing Center
Why "There’s an App for That" is So 2010 for Enterprise Mobility
pps have been closely associated with mobility since they exploded onto the scene with the launch of the Apple iPhone in 2007, followed by its app store in 2008. Soon “there’s an app for that” became a running joke denoting that just about anything that you wanted to do could be done on your phone using an app. We hit peak “app for that” when the American Dialect Society voted app the word of the year in 2010.
March 9, 2016 | Technology Evaluation Centers
Coupa Delivers Release 14 of Its Cloud Spend Management Software—How the Vendor Listens to Its Customers
Coupa Software, a cloud spend management software provider, recently delivered Coupa Release 14, a platform update that adds many new features across both the Coupa cloud spend management software suite and Coupa Open Business Network.
February 16, 2016 | Reuters
RPT-DEALTALK-Technology stocks selloff may turn IPO chill into IPO freeze
The high-tech computing and storage company filed for a hotly anticipated initial public offering in December, ready to woo investors early in the New Year.
February 10, 2016 | Health IT Outcomes
Cloud Procurement Saves Healthcare Group $5.5 Million
Avalon Health Care Group reduced costs and gained budget visibility by deploying an automated procurement solution.
February 4, 2016 | Buyers Meeting Point
Do you Have Any Idea How Hard It Is To Research A Legal Company Online Names Contractually?
Last week I spoke with Donna Wilczek, Coupa’s VP of Strategy and Product Marketing, about the mid-January announcement that Coupa had acquired Contractually, described in the press release as “a cloud innovator based in Vancouver, Canada that helps reduce businesses’ reliance on antiquated processes or inadequate technology tools to version control or redline contracts.”
February 3, 2016 | Business Insider
The CFO may not be necessary anymore
CFO Insider is a weekly newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for chief financial officers and other finance experts.
February 2016 | Buyers Meeting Point
Integrating Amazon Business with an eProcurement Solution
Today Buyers Meeting Point welcomes Donna Wilczek, Coupa’s VP of Strategy and Product Marketing, as our guest. Donna has over fifteen years experience in SaaS product companies in roles across product management, services, marketing and sales working with customers ranging from Fortune 100 to mid-enterprise.
January 28, 2016 | Technology Evaluation Centers
Coupa Acquisition for Collaborative Cloud Contract Management Software Capabilities
Coupa Software, a cloud spend management software provider, has made a purely people and intellectual property (IP) acquisition. The addition of Contractually, a small cloud document collaboration software, will help Coupa bolster its cloud contract management software capabilities throughout the entire contract lifecycle management (CLM).
January 25, 2016 | Inc.
The Multibillion Dollar Industry That Should Be on Your Radar
The Cloud Gets Bigger The cloud is expanding. These major companies--now considered "unicorns" with a $1B valuation--prove the cloud market presents a prime opportunity.
January 14, 2016 | Diginomica
Coupa acquisition adds contract authoring to source-to-pay
Enterprise spend management vendor Coupa revealed today it has acquired Canadian startup Contractually, its fourth acquisition in the past year. The deal adds contract authoring to Coupa’s cloud-based source-to-pay suite.
January 14, 2016 | BetaKit
Contractually Acquired by California-Based Coupa Software
Contractually, a Vancouver-based cloud service provider that works on simplifying the contract process for businesses, has been acquired by California-based Coupa Software.
January 14, 2016 | Spend Matters
Coupa Buys Contractually to Improve Contract Management
Coupa has acquired cloud-based contract management solution provider Contractually. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Spend Matters believes this was not a substantial acquisition in financial terms.
January 14, 2016 | eWeek
Coupa Acquires Contractually to Smooth Contract Processes
Coupa Software, which makes a cloud-based set of tools that enables users to manage enterprise spending, on Jan. 14 announced the acquisition of Contractually, a cloud service provider that adds efficiencies to the often-tedious and slow-to-move contract process.
January 14, 2016 | ZDNet
Coupa buys contract management software maker Contractually
Cloud-based spend management software startup Coupa said Thursday that it has acquired Contractually. Financial terms were not disclosed. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Contractually makes cloud software for managing contract authoring and signature processes.
January 14, 2016 | diginomica
Coupa Acquisition Adds Contract Authoring to Source-to-Pay
Enterprise spend management vendor Coupa revealed today it has acquired Canadian startup Contractually, its fourth acquisition in the past year. The deal adds contract authoring to Coupa’s cloud-based source-to-pay suite.
January 14, 2016 | betakit
Contractually Acquired by California-Based Coupa Software
Contractually, a Vancouver-based cloud service provider that works on simplifying the contract process for businesses, has been acquired by California-based Coupa Software.
January 14, 2016 | Spend Matters
Coupa Buys Contractually to Improve Contract Management
Coupa has acquired cloud-based contract management solution provider Contractually. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Spend Matters believes this was not a substantial acquisition in financial terms.
January 14, 2016 | eWeek
Coupa Acquires Contractually to Smooth Contract Processes
Contractually's IP reduces businesses' reliance on obsolete processes or inadequate technology tools to version control or redline contracts.
January 14, 2016 | ZD Net
Coupa Buys Contract Management Software Maker Contractually
Contractually's pitch is that, while contracts remain a fixture in business-to-business transactions, the tools for writing and signing them via the Internet are cumbersome and outdated.
January 13, 2016 | Blog Talk Radio
Integrating Amazon Business with an eProcurement Solution
Today Buyers Meeting Point welcomes Donna Wilczek, Coupa’s VP of Strategy and Product Marketing, as our guest. Donna has over fifteen years experience in SaaS product companies in roles across product management, services, marketing and sales working with customers ranging from Fortune 100 to mid-enterprise.
January 12, 2016 | Tnooz
Seven ways business travel could benefit from tech this year
Travel managers, buyers and business travellers use tech to make their (working) life more productive and more simple, but the full potential has yet to be realised.
January 11, 2016 | EBN
3 Basics to Successfully Transform the Supply Chain with a Cloud Deployment
The cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) are making inroads with large enterprises because they promise better, faster, lower total cost of ownership ways to apply information technology to procurement and supply chain problems that have never been adequately addressed.
January 10, 2016 | VentureBeat
The CFO is dying. Long live the COO
CFOs today are being asked to use technology and data to grow the business, to give department heads better information so they make smarter decisions, and to help the company decide where best to invest incremental dollars or dial back spending.
January 7, 2016 | IT Business Edge
2016 Software Trends: The Evolution of Enterprise Software
No one knows how 2016 will play out, but it’s quite clear that companies that focus on creating value; on maximizing resources, people and time; on pushing the boundaries of innovation; and on using data to run their business smarter will have the agility and flexibility to manage through whatever will come.
January 4, 2016 | Samsung
3 Enterprise Financial Apps to Watch
Although a lot of financial enterprises were slow to support Android, given their historic reliance on legacy devices that are now fading from businesses in the U.S., they are moving increasingly toward Android-powered smartphones and tablets.
