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September 14, 2017 | Forbes
Ex-Marketo CMO Opens Up About The Future Of B2B Marketing
September 14, 2017 | The Times / Raconteur
Goodbye CFO? Bots and blockchain are taking over soon
Three chief financial officers from major global companies tell how artificial intelligence is changing their departments and roles
September 11, 2017 | The Mercury News
Talking business and baseball cards with Coupa’s Rob Bernshteyn
What do Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle have in common?
September 7, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa’s New CMO Chandar Pattabhiram on the 4 Biggest Trends in Marketing (Part 2)
Spend Matters recently chatted with the new chief marketing officer at Coupa, Chandar Pattabhiram, who was named by LinkedIn as one of five CMOs to follow this year.
September 6, 2017 | Spend Matters
New Coupa CMO Chandar Pattabhiram on Storytelling as Marketing and Company Culture (Part 1)
It’s been a pretty good year for Chandar Pattabhiram, who recently joined Coupa as the new chief marketing officer (CMO).
September 2017 | The Silicon Review
30 Most Trustworthy Companies of the year 2017
As cloud computing gained prominence in the information technology industry, many financial services firms avoided it for one reason: security.
July 2017 | Inc. Magazine
Coupa Software: The Cloud Platform Which Everyone Loves to Use
Coupa is featured as one of the 30 Most Trustworthy companies for 2017.
May 31, 2017 | toonz
Sabre signs Coupa and Hospitality International, Buster brings carts to events, and more…
This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel systems in May 2017.
May 24, 2017 | Global Banking and Finance Review
Coupa and Sabre Expand Technology Collaboration to Advance Integrated Travel and Expense Management
Corporations with managed travel programs can now access an integration between Coupa Expenses, Coupa’s cloud-based expense management solution, and Sabre’s GetThere online booking solution for corporate travel.
May 23, 2017 | Incentive Travel & Corporate Meetings
Coupa and Sabre expand technology collaboration to advance integrated Travel and Expense Management
Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, and Sabre Corporation, the leading technology provider to the global travel industry, are collaborating to streamline the travel experience for business leaders.
May 23, 2017 | Global Banking and Finance Review
Coupa acquires Riskopy for advanced data aggregation engine
Coupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP), a leader in cloud-based spend management, today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Riskopy, Inc. The acquisition helps Coupa aggregate Coupa platform and 3rd party supplier risk data into a profile score. This profile score, Coupa transactional data, and other Coupa network data is then incorporated in Coupa’s community intelligence innovation.
May 23, 2017 | The Paypers
Coupa to boost spend management depth
R18 gives customers more than 50 updates to existing platform applications, all designed to increase the depth of spend management processes, claims the company.
May 23, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa Unveils Services Maestro: Will the Student Become a Master of Services Procurement and Contingent Workforce Spend? [PRO]
At its Inspire user conference in San Francisco last week, Coupa announced its “early access program” soft-launch of Services Maestro. The company’s first step into services procurement, Coupa presented Services Maestro in 2016 as a part of the product roadmap and has introduced the offering as part of Release 18.
May 23, 2017 | diginomica
Coupa blurs functional boundaries in enterprise procurement
In the beginning, it was easy to classify Coupa. The company started out as a spend management vendor with a cloud-native, SaaS approach to automating indirect procurement.
May 22, 2017 | Financial IT
Coupa Release 18 Extends Spend Management Depth
Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, today announced Coupa Release 18 (R18), its second major cloud platform update this year. R18 gives customers more than 50 updates to existing platform applications, all designed to increase the depth of spend management processes to drive even more customer value.
May 22, 2017 | Incentive Travel & Corporate Meetings
Coupa Release 18 extends spend management for travel
Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, today announced Coupa Release 18 (R18), its second major cloud platform update this year. R18 gives customers more than 50 updates to existing platform applications, all designed to increase the depth of spend management processes to drive even more customer value.
May 22, 2017 | Sourcing Innovation
Did Coupa Inspire?
Last week we asked if Coupa would inspire at Inspire, especially given that most big companies, especially in the Procurement arena, have not given us much to be inspired about as of late.
May 22, 2017 | CPO Rising
Technology Round-up – May 22 (Coupa Inspire Edition)
Coupa Inspire was held last week May 16-18 in San Franciso. Ardent Partners analysts were in attendance. During the conference, Coupa Software made many announcements. Today’s Technology Round-up is dedicated to several made at the conference.
May 19, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa Inspire 2017: Dissecting R18 [PRO]
Today’s coverage of Coupa Inspire 2017 will go deeper than our first dispatch, as we we zero in on product. The biggest news to come out of Coupa’s customer conference Thursday was the general availability release of R18.
May 19, 2017 | SiliconTap
Coupa Software Buys Riskopy
San Mateo-based Coupa Software has acquired Riskopy, a developer of analytics engines used for financial analysis of companies
May 19, 2017 | Finextra
Riskopy acquired by Coupa for data aggregation capability
The acquisition helps Coupa aggregate Coupa platform and 3rd party supplier risk data into a profile score. This profile score, Coupa transactional data, and other Coupa network data is then incorporated in Coupa’s community intelligence innovation.
May 19, 2017 | Financial IT
Coupa Acquires Riskopy
Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Riskopy, Inc. The acquisition helps Coupa aggregate Coupa platform and 3rd party supplier risk data into a profile score.
May 19, 2017 | Spend Matters UK/Europe
Down the Procurement Pub with the Conservatives, Coupa, GOT and Valerie June
We had our monthly team meeting in the Stag and Hounds at Binfield yesterday. My colleague Nancy Clinton is vegetarian so I decided to join her, forego the burgers and be healthy. I must say had a delicious plateful of food with focaccia and a sort of salad including something I have never eaten before in my life – caperberries (different from capers). Loved ‘em.
May 18, 2017 | Financial IT
Coupa Unveils Open Buy with Amazon Business
Today Coupa Software, a leading provider of cloud-based spend management solutions introduced Coupa Open Buy with Amazon Business.
May 18, 2017 | Finextra
Coupa connects with Amazon Business for Open Buy
Organisations reap the benefits of lower total costs, improved spend compliance, and higher end user adoption.
May 18, 2017 | Benzinga
Coupa Acquires Riskopy for Advanced Data Aggregation Engine
Coupa today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Riskopy, Inc. The acquisition helps Coupa aggregate Coupa platform and 3rd party supplier risk data into a profile score.
May 18, 2017 | EconoTimes
Coupa Release 18 Extends Spend Management Depth
The release expands global regulatory compliance, enhances administrator control, and adds new capabilities across the entire Coupa platform from travel and expense management to e-invoicing, inventory, and more. New applications available as part of R18 will be announced in separate press releases.
May 18, 2017 | Benzinga
Coupa Release 18 Extends Spend Management Depth
The release expands global regulatory compliance, enhances administrator control, and adds new capabilities across the entire Coupa platform from travel and expense management to e-invoicing, inventory, and more. New applications available as part of R18 will be announced in separate press releases.
May 18, 2017 | Benzinga
Coupa Announces General Availability of InvoiceSmash Application
Coupa takes the next step in transforming B2B commerce by further reducing the need for expensive supplier enablement initiatives and strengthening the way the world’s businesses use Coupa Invoicing and the Coupa Open Business Network™ for their e-invoicing transactions.
May 18, 2017 | EconoTimes
Coupa Announces General Availability of InvoiceSmash Application
Coupa takes the next step in transforming B2B commerce by further reducing the need for expensive supplier enablement initiatives and strengthening the way the world’s businesses use Coupa Invoicing and the Coupa Open Business Network™ for their e-invoicing transactions.
May 18, 2017 | EconoTimes
Community Intelligence Empowers Customers to Make Smarter Decisions
Coupa Risk Aware can bridge the siloed risk data and spend transactions created by disparate systems. The application gives visibility to supplier risk indicators across the platform so users are aware of risk levels while they are sourcing, working with contracts, and creating or reviewing purchase orders.
May 18, 2017 | Benzinga
Community Intelligence Empowers Customers to Make Smarter Decisions
Coupa Risk Aware can bridge the siloed risk data and spend transactions created by disparate systems. The application gives visibility to supplier risk indicators across the platform so users are aware of risk levels while they are sourcing, working with contracts, and creating or reviewing purchase orders.
May 18, 2017 | Virtual Stratagy Magazine
Community Intelligence Empowers Customers to Make Smarter Decisions
Coupa Risk Aware can bridge the siloed risk data and spend transactions created by disparate systems. The application gives visibility to supplier risk indicators across the platform so users are aware of risk levels while they are sourcing, working with contracts, and creating or reviewing purchase orders.
May 18, 2017 | diginomica
Coupa applies the hive mind of customers to supplier risk
Back in 2009, spend management vendor Coupa made a prescient and astute move — it began signing up customers to its benchmarking program.
May 18, 2017 | diginomica
Coupa applies the hive mind of customers to supplier risk
Back in 2009, spend management vendor Coupa made a prescient and astute move — it began signing up customers to its benchmarking program.
May 18, 2017 | SpendMatters
Coupa Announces 2017 Community Champion
Financial Systems Analyst Diane Carrara of CSAA Insurance Group embraces the "Power of We" by assisting others in the Coupa Community, by generating great new ideas, and by adding depth and details to thought leadership by her peers.
May 18, 2017 | SpendMatters
Coupa Inspire 2017: A Provocative Keynote
Coupa Inspire 2017 kicked-off yesterday with CEO Rob Bernshteyn delivering the keynote. Rob’s speech was plain spoken and detailed in terms of Coupa’s product and market vision, as my colleague Pierre Mitchell wrote in an earlier dispatch.
May 18, 2017 | SpendMatters
Coupa Inspire 2017: Keeping it Cool
Walking the hallways and meeting with several of Coupa’s customers yesterday, it was hard not to notice a kind of positive speculation in the air. After many months of making data acquisition a priority, resulting in a cool trillion in spend data, Coupa is using this year’s customer conference to motivate specific discussion around using those data to “unleash value.”
May 18, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa Inspire 2017: Pulling the String on Steve Wozniak
Pull the string and let him go. That’s pretty much all Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn had to do this morning. Following a fully scripted product marketing update (and its announcement of Release 18) delivered by Raja Hammoud, Coupa’s vice president of product management, Steve Wozniak sat down with Rob and off he went.
May 17, 2017 | FX-MM
Coupa Payments launches to streamline cross-border payments
Coupa Software has launched Coupa Payments to streamline the complexities of cross-border payment systems often used by buyers to transact with suppliers globally.
May 17, 2017 | The Paypers
Coupa, Nvoicepay join forces to boost B2B transactions
According to the company, the solution brings out a CoupaLink app from Nvoicepay to paying all supplier invoices, domestically and internationally, through the same unified process flow.
May 17, 2017 | EconoTimes
Customer Receive MVP Awards at Coupa Inspire ‘17
For the second year in a row, Coupa has recognized its MVP customers before an audience of nearly 2,000 at Coupa Inspire, one of the fastest growing spend management industry events in the world where Coupa customers, partners, prospects, and employees connect, explore and learn how to "Unleash Real Value Everywhere."
May 17, 2017 | The Street
Customer Receive MVP Awards at Coupa Inspire ‘17
For the second year in a row, Coupa has recognized its MVP customers before an audience of nearly 2,000 at Coupa Inspire, one of the fastest growing spend management industry events in the world where Coupa customers, partners, prospects, and employees connect, explore and learn how to "Unleash Real Value Everywhere."
May 17, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa Inspire 2017: Spelling Out the Post-IPO Strategy
A number of folks on the Spend Matters team are attending Coupa Inspire today, but since Jason Busch couldn’t make it, we’re not going to be doing real-time blogging updates. And that’s OK! Our expanding team is going to take a different approach to covering things. Please tell us if you like it (or don’t)!
May 16, 2017 | EconoTimes
Coupa Achieves ISO 27001 Certification
Schellman certified Coupa as compliant with all of the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification requirements - the international standard from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission.
May 16, 2017 | diginomica
Coupa teams up with Nvoicepay to automate payments
Procure-to-pay provider Coupa is marking the opening of its annual conference today with the launch of an automated global payment solution powered by partner Nvoicepay.
May 16, 2017 | EconoTimes
Coupa Inspire '17: Unleashing Real Value Everywhere
Inspire '17 begins this evening with a welcome reception for conference participants on Union Square. On Wednesday morning, Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn, will present his conversational keynote address at 9 a.m. PDT at the Westin St. Francis. Bernshteyn's keynote will highlight the industry's opportunity to deliver measurable business value to customers and stakeholders.
May 16, 2017 | The Street
Coupa Inspire '17: Unleashing Real Value Everywhere
Inspire '17 begins this evening with a welcome reception for conference participants on Union Square. On Wednesday morning, Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn, will present his conversational keynote address at 9 a.m. PDT at the Westin St. Francis. Bernshteyn's keynote will highlight the industry's opportunity to deliver measurable business value to customers and stakeholders.
May 16, 2017 | Commercial Payments International
Coupa Acquires Trade Extensions
Coupa Software has completed its acquisition of Trade Extensions. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, Trade Extensions offers a strategic sourcing and advanced optimisation platform that can be used to run sourcing projects in complex categories such as transportation and logistics, production planning, and supply chain design.
May 16, 2017 | Financial IT
Coupa rolls out Coupa Payments
Coupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP), a leader in cloud-based spend management, will launch Coupa Payments today to streamline the disparate and complex cross-border payment systems often used by buyers to transact with suppliers globally.
May 16, 2017 | GTNews
Coupa Software, Nvoicepay partner on digitised supplier payments
Coupa Software, the cloud-based business spend management platform, has launched Coupa Payments to digitise supplier payments and automate payment processes. The solution leverages a CoupaLink app from supplier payments and electronic invoicing specialist Nvoicepay to paying all supplier invoices, domestically and internationally, through the same unified process flow.
May 16, 2017 | Payment Eye
Coupa Payments to Digitise Global Supplier Payments
oupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP), a leader in cloud-based spend management, will launch Coupa Payments today to streamline the disparate and complex cross-border payment systems often used by buyers to transact with suppliers globally.
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May 12, 2017 | Purchase to Pay Network
COUPA IN "INSPIRED" ACQUISITION OF TRADE EXTENSIONS TO BROADEN CLOUD PLATFORM FOR BUSINESS SPEND
Coupa Software has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Trade Extensions TradeExt AB to make it easier for organisations to reduce supply chain risk, increase profit margins, and achieve operational compliance.
May 11, 2017 | The Street
Coupa Executive Advisory Board Welcomes Additional Industry Experts
Established in 2016, the EAB has expanded to 21 industry leaders whose mission is to transform how enterprises manage their spend. Over the past year, the EAB has focused on thought leadership – webinars, speaking engagements, blogs - around spend management as the new business imperative and how IT, finance, and procurement can work together to optimize business value.
May 11, 2017 | Financial Buzz
Coupa Executive Advisory Board Welcomes Additional Industry Experts
Established in 2016, the EAB has expanded to 21 industry leaders whose mission is to transform how enterprises manage their spend. Over the past year, the EAB has focused on thought leadership – webinars, speaking engagements, blogs - around spend management as the new business imperative and how IT, finance, and procurement can work together to optimize business value.
May 10, 2017 | Public Spend Forum Europe
Sourcing Optimisation – Will Coupa / Trade Extensions Tie-up Bring This Tech Into Government?
With the news that Coupa, a leading procurement software firm, is buying Trade Extensions, probably the number one “sourcing optimisation” firm in the world, we thought we would go back to an article we wrote in 2014 about whether optimisation could be used in the public sector.
May 10, 2017 | Spend Matters
Afternoon Coffee: BravoSolution Partners with TrustWeaver for E-Invoicing Compliance Services, The Hackett Group Expands Consulting Portfolio
Afternoon Coffee: BravoSolution Partners with TrustWeaver for E-Invoicing Compliance Services, The Hackett Group Expands Consulting Portfolio
May 10, 2017 | Business Insider
BRIEF-Coupa acquires Trade Extensions to broaden cloud platform
May 10, 2017 | Reuters
BRIEF-Coupa acquires Trade Extensions to broaden cloud platform
May 6, 2017 | Sourcing Innovation
…And Trade Extensions is No More!
As of Thursday, one could look up a Form 8-K filing on the SEC site from May 3, 2017 that simply stated that Coupa had completed its acquisition of Trade Extensions, now called Coupa Advanced Sourcing for those of you on the ball (and watching TE profiles on LinkedIn for updates as well). SI expects you’ll see a formal press release early this week.
May 2, 2017 | Huffpost
The Secret to Business Growth? Value-as-a-Service
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. — Albert Einstein
April, 25 2017 | Yahoo! Finance
Coupa Inspire ’17 Explores How to “Unleash Real Value Everywhere”
Held May 16-18, the fifth annual event will feature a 'Fireside Chat' on the main stage with Apple Co-Founder Steve “The Woz” Wozniak and Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn. They will engage in a discussion on a range of topics covering innovation, perseverance and inspiration, and including a segment about Wozniak’s business journey with fellow Apple co-founder and friend Steve Jobs.
March 28, 2017 | CNBC
The top 20 venture capitalists worldwide
Which 20 venture capitalists — the investors who unearth the tiny start-ups that turn into tomorrow's behemoths — are on the winningest streaks?
March 23, 2017 | Bloomberg
Bloomberg Markets: Coupa CEO Sees Consistent, Stable Growth
Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson.
March 22, 2017 | Spend Matters
Afternoon Coffee: Sears Holdings in Jeopardy, Low-Cost Manufacturing… in the U.S.?
The U.S. is on the radar for companies looking for lower-cost factories. The Wall Street Journal reported that the exit of U.S. factory jobs is in fact more or less matched by jobs coming in, as supply chain economics shift.
March 16, 2017 | Medium
The M& Acceleration Effect
The history of M&A is filled with stories of young entrepreneurs with great intelligence — and great timing. These stories always start with an ambitious new player who aligned their strengths and exploited the new gap left in the market by the acquisition to grow and gain competitive advantage.
March 14, 2017 | Business Travel News
Next-Gen Expense Management
2016 was the year expense management players got more aggressive, strategic and intelligent. While the sector has unarguably consolidated, that hasn’t stopped new players, armed with intuitive technologies and consumer-style interfaces, from launching solutions that could turn into prime acquisition targets for established providers looking to leapfrog competitors.
March 14, 2017 | The Wall Street Journal
How Technology Is Making Expense Reporting Easier
New tools are removing one of the biggest headaches business travelers endure: the paperwork
March 14, 2017 | Forbes
This New App Lets Job Seekers Secretly Chat With Employees
When job seekers apply for an opening, it can be hard to get up-to-date interview tips and reliable insights into what it’s really like to work at a firm, especially when reviews on social media or job sites can feature disgruntled former employees or current workers who might only volunteer part of the picture.
March 13, 2017 | Reuters
BRIEF – Coupa Software sees Q1 non-gaap net loss per share between $0.12-$0.17
Coupa software reports fourth quarter & full year fiscal 2017 financial results
March 9, 2017 | Spend Matters
Afternoon Coffee: Coca-Cola’s Supply Chain Goes Mobile, Old St Labs Partners With Vodafone
Coca-Cola Co.’s latest tool in improving supply chain efficiency is mobile commerce, the Wall Street Journal reports. The beverage company is encouraging small retailers to use a mobile app in sending order requests to local distributors, who bid on the deal – and then gig workers are enlisted to help with delivery.
March 9, 2017 | Reuters
BRIEF – Coupa Software says signed a partnership agreement with Solmate Group
Coupa software inc- signed a partnership agreement with solmate group to expand coupa's value-as-a-service offering in benelux region Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
March 8, 2017 | Spend Matters
Tradeshift to Acquire IBX Business Network from Capgemini
Tradeshift announced Wednesday it had acquired IBX Business Network from Capgemini. Spend Matters believes the transaction is, by a significant margin, Tradeshift’s most important acquisition to date. And from the “seller” side of the deal, Capgemini suggests that the transaction represents, from a corporate development perspective, more than just the divestiture of a business unit.
March 8, 2017 | PYMNTS
Coupa’s Concept Of Value As A Service
Coupa Software provides real-time analytics for pricing, assortment, demand and competitive metrics in the retail sector. The firm has had a big six months — in October the firm launched a successful IPO, which saw its shares more than double on its first day of trading.
March 2, 2017 | VentureBeat
How Trump is impacting tech exits
We’ve heard a lot of noise about how 2017 will be the year to “save” the IPO market. For now, all eyes (or Spectacles) are on Snap to see how it will perform after its IPO. And other hotly anticipated companies like Spotify will be eager to see results as they wait their turn in line.
March 2, 2017 | East Bay Times
Snap shares sizzle in first day of trading
With a smash-hit initial public offering Thursday, Snap soared into the record books alongside companies such as Facebook and Twitter and gave investors hope that more massive “unicorn” IPOs are on the way.
February 27, 2017 | Technology Evaluation Centers
Coupa’s Cloud Spend Management Software Platform Release 17 Focuses on B2B Spend Big Data
Coupa, a provider of a unified cloud spend management software platform that connects hundreds of organizations from the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region with millions of suppliers globally, seems to be on a roll. After going public several months ago, the vendor is continuing with the fast-paced innovation of its cloud spend management software platform to provide even greater visibility into and control over how companies spend their money.
February 27, 2017 | GeekWire
Cloud exists: How the M&A and IPO markets are changing expectations for cloud tech companies
Cloud technology companies have increasingly become acquisition targets rather than IPO candidates, according to a new research report. But investors and analysts say that could start to change in the year ahead.
February 22, 2017 | Spend Matters
Afternoon Coffee: New Supply Management Awards Announced, BravoSolution Releases 2016 Results
Two organizations have joined forces to bring procurement the first annual CIPS Supply Management Awards Europe. The awards will benchmark excellence within supply chain and procurement and recognize the work of both organisations and individuals.
February 20, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa’s Release 17: Features and Approach
Coupa’s first update of the year, Release 17, offers a new application called “Perfect Fit Insights” for cross-customer B2B insights and more than 50 features across the platform including new collaboration mechanisms to work with suppliers and additional e-invoicing compliance templates.
February 17, 2017 | San Jose Mercury News
Biz Break: Apple said close to finally making iPhones in India
Building Apples in India: For almost a year, or since about the time when Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook went to India to say the company would set up an app-development center in the city of Bengaluru, speculation and anticipation have grown around when Apple might start making actual products in the country.
February 17, 2017 | Silicon Valley Business Journal
Here's why Snap's lowball IPO pricing may not be a bad thing
If Snap Inc. goes public in the target range it posted this week, its market cap at best would be about 10 percent below the $25 billion that Silicon Valley VCs pegged it at when it last raised funding from them.
February 15, 2017 | JD Supra Business Advisor
Client Satisfaction is Dead…
Client satisfaction is dead – or you may be, if that is your primary focus as an organization. This seemingly radical statement is but one conclusion you might draw from reading Value As a Service, a fabulous new book by Rob Bernshteyn, President of Coupa, a cloud-based business spend management software and consulting company.
February 13, 2017 | CPO Rising
How Innovative Supply Management Technologies Create Opportunity for CIOs
As was discussed in a previous article in this series, cloud technologies, solution suites, and self-service applications have created significant value and opportunity for CPOs. But they also have the potential to make the CIO’s job easier and enable them to reallocate precious resources elsewhere.
February 10, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa Release 17 Analysis — And a General “How To” Lesson for Upgrading Products
On Jan. 27, Spend Matters published a quick post on first update of the year, Release 17. It offers a new application called “Perfect Fit Insights” for cross-customer B2B insights and more than 50 features across the platform, including new collaboration mechanisms to work with suppliers (SMS messaging and extended sourcing communication windows), additional e-invoicing compliance templates, and additional system configurations options such as extended customer branding.
February 9, 2017 | Spend Matters
Rethinking Sourcing Suites and Their Sub Components — Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant
Gartner recently came out with their 2017 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suite review. You can download free copies of it (see links courtesy of BravoSolution and Jaggaer). There was material movement from this year’s quadrant compared to the previous one that was published two years ago.
February 9, 2017 | CPO Rising
Technology Round-Up – February 9, 2017
On February 8, GEP, a New Jersey-based provider of procurement software and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, published its annual business and economic outlook and analysis of implications for procurement and sourcing teams, dubbed “GEP Procurement Outlook 2017 – Global Supertrends and Their Implications.”
February 7, 2017 | Medium
Forbes Cloud 100 list revealed : Find out the leading cloud companies In 2016
Forbes Cloud 100 list recognizes cloud companies for the financial health and growth of their business alongside exceptional qualitative factors such as unprecedented customer adoption and satisfaction. In another first, the Cloud 100 takes the leading candidates from the private sector and puts them in front of their public company peers. (Full article in Forbes)
February 6, 2017 | Medium
Results of the year: P2B- and SME- lending, online-factoring, crowdfunding and crowdinvesting in 2016
Despite the fact that the main stir among foreign media is caused by online- and p2p-lending for individuals (such as LendingClub and Kreditech), the market for alternative lending for business has grown a lot over the past few years.
February 6, 2017 | CPO Rising
How CIOs and CPOs Learned to Stopped Worrying and Love Innovation
Major business trends, like agility, innovation, and speed, have facilitated a shift in how leading CIOs, CPOs, and line-of-business constituents approach technology selection and integration. This transition has several facets. For starters, enterprise software, particularly cloud-based solutions, have become easier to deploy and use; and they have become more cost effective.
February 2, 2017 | Venture Beat
Snap files to raise $3 billion in much-hyped IPO
January 31, 2017 | EconoTimes
Apple Co-Founder Steve "The Woz" Wozniak to Speak at Coupa Inspire 2017
Conference attendees will realize the possibilities available in today’s procurement, accounts payable automation, expense management, and sourcing landscapes.
January 31, 2017 | TMC NEWS
Apple Co-Founder Steve "The Woz" Wozniak to Speak at Coupa Inspire 2017
Inspire ’17 will bring together more than 1,500 customers, business leaders and industry analysts from around the globe to connect, explore, and learn how to ‘‘Unleash Real Value Everywhere.”
January 31, 2017 | Spend Matters
Afternoon Coffee: Steve Wozniak to Speak at Coupa Inspire 2017, The Price of Trump’s Border Tax on the Auto Supply Chain
Coupa Inspire 2017 is hosting a distinguished guest speaker: Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak. As the company details in a press release, Wozniak and Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn will engage in a fireside chat on the main stage to discuss a range of topics, including a segment about his business journey with fellow Apple Co-founder and friend Steve Jobs.
January 31, 2017 | Trade Financing Matters
B2B Collateral Lenders – Meet the New B2B Information Lenders
HAL, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission, in many ways perhaps the greatest responsibility of any single mission element. You're the brain, and central nervous system of the ship, and your responsibilities include watching over the men in hibernation. Does this ever cause you any lack of confidence?
January 30, 2017 | Medium
How do SaaS Companies Trade after their IPOs?
SaaS companies can get overvalued in the private markets. Private market investors many times pay 2+ years forward on a revenue multiple-basis to win deals, but when companies go public they can expect to trade ~5–6x NTM (next-twelve-months) revenue.
January 30, 2017 | Ardent Partners
How Innovative Supply Management Technologies Create Opportunity for CPOs
The age of innovation has arrived at the doorstep of enterprise software and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) are well-poised to take a leadership role. Recent advances in enterprise technology have made the solutions generally more robust, usable, and accessible, and they have also changed the way that leading teams evaluate, deploy, and optimize them. They have also created opportunities for the CIO and the CPO to positively affect change in their organization and drive value across the enterprise. Here is a look at what tech and innovation means for the CPO.
January 30, 2017 | CPO Rising
How Innovative Supply Management Technologies Create Opportunity for CPOs
The age of innovation has arrived at the doorstep of enterprise software and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) are well-poised to take a leadership role. Recent advances in enterprise technology have made the solutions generally more robust, usable, and accessible, and they have also changed the way that leading teams evaluate, deploy, and optimize them. They have also created opportunities for the CIO and the CPO to positively affect change in their organization and drive value across the enterprise. Here is a look at what tech and innovation means for the CPO.
January 27, 2016 | Business Travel News
Machine Learning Will Go Mainstream in Expense Management
Few expense management firms employed machine learning before 2016, but booking tools like KDS using that type of artificial intelligence for predictive booking have made it popular in corporate managed travel. And last year, machine learning expanded within the expense management side of the business.
January 27, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa: Solution Review & Analysis
There are many perspectives on Coupa. These range from those who believe that the vendor has single-handedly transformed the world of spend management by atoning for the over-customization, product and user interface sins of those that came before, to those who think that Coupa has expanded too quickly and is doomed to repeat the past mistakes of others.
January 26, 2017 | CPO Rising
Technology Round-Up – January 26, 2017
A couple of weeks ago, Coupa Software, one of the leading supply management solution providers in our industry, announced that it had acquired Spend360 International Ltd, a London-based analytics solution provider that focuses on spend analysis. Terms of the deal were not announced, but we met with the executive team from the two companies to discuss the deal and you can read our full coverage here – but here’s a quick take.
January 26, 2017 | Forbes
What Cisco’s $3.7B Splurge For AppDynamics Means For Tech’s Other Unicorns
AppDynamics' coming out party was supposed to be today. After raising price targets and with high demand for its app performance software during its investor roadshow, AppDynamics was expected to list on Nasdaq on Thursday as the first big tech IPO of 2017.
January 26, 2017 | East Bay Times
Biz Break: Why Apple is advancing plans to make products in India
January 25, 2017 | Spend Matters
Simeno: Vendor Snapshot (Part 1) – Background & Solution Overview
To create “life” you need a number of ingredients. Scientists will say that these inputs include an atmosphere, water and a source of energy, such as sunlight. In a similar way, the number of focused European procure-to-pay (P2P) enabling providers — including Simeno, Wallmedien, jCatalog (now OpusCapita), IBX/Capgemini — that have quietly emerged with little or no marketing is a result of a confluence of different inputs, giving “life” to a sector that otherwise would not have been created or grown.
January 24, 2017 | Spend Matters
Afternoon Coffee: BravoSolution to Kick Off 2017 Real World Procurement Series, What’s in Coupa Release 17
Starting one week from today, BravoSolution will be hosting its sixth annual educational series for procurement professionals, the 2017 Real World Procurement Series.
January 24, 2017 | Spend Matters
Scanmarket: Vendor Snapshot (Part 3) – Commentary and Summary Analysis
Today’s landscape for e-sourcing (RFX, auction, category management, sourcing optimization, etc.) is highly fragmented. There is not a single market-share leader or “dual” leadership in this sector (as is the case with Coupa and Ariba for procure-to-pay).
January 23, 2017 | Inc.
What Does the Market for Series A Investment Look Like in 2017?
What does the market for Series A investment look like, heading into 2017? originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.
January 23, 2017 | CPO Rising
One Job, Two Legacies: How CIOs and CPOs Historically Evaluated Enterprise Technology
For some time, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and IT departments have been in the driver’s seat when it comes to evaluating and adopting technology solutions.
January 23, 2017 | TechTarget
SAP Ariba brings predictive insight to procurement with new functions
Coupa announced early Tuesday it had acquired Spend360 International Ltd., a best-in-class spend classification vendor. Coupa “has acquired substantially all of the assets of Spend360 International Ltd. to help companies digitize antiquated processes for data classification,” the company said in the acquisition announcement.
January 19, 2017 | WWD
Global E-commerce Demand for Fintech Platforms Drives Growth at Tipalti
Fresh off a new round of funding, payments automation platform provider Tipalti is experiencing robust growth as the global demand for “fintech” solutions in the e-commerce market increases.
January 19, 2017 | Ardent Partners
Last week, Coupa Software, one of the leading supply management solution providers in our industry, announced that it had acquired Spend360 International Ltd. Terms of the deal were not announced. We met with the executive team from the two companies to discuss the deal.
January 19, 2017 | CPO Rising
Coupa Closes the Loop with Acquisition of Spend360
Coupa Software is a name that should be familiar to our readers and procurement leaders around the world. In the space of a decade, Coupa transformed from industry start-up to industry heavyweight including a recent IPO and an equity market valuation of more than $1 billion.
January 18, 2017 | Art of Procurement
This Month in Procurement: A Collaboration w/ Mark Perera of Old St Labs
I am co-hosting a new monthly show, imaginatively titled The Month in Procurement, with Mark Perera. Mark is the CEO and Founder of Old St Labs, the Founder of Procurement Leaders, and as I have got to know him, I see how passionate he is about levering innovation and technology to help businesses really harness the power of their supply networks.
January 18, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa: Vendor Snapshot (Part 3) – Commentary and Summary Analysis
At its current rate of expansion, Coupa will cross the 500-customer threshold in the first half of 2017. There are numerous areas to which to credit its continued ascent, including a spend under management growth rate that is nearly mirroring revenue growth — a metric that shows the rapid manner in which customers are implementing and scaling Coupa implementations relative to first generation procure-to-pay (P2P) solutions.
January 17, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa: Vendor Snapshot (Part 2) – Product Strengths and Weaknesses
Coupa is gaining traction among spend management technology suite customers who want a streamlined deployment effort, a simplified user experience and the ability to capture, manage and influence indirect spend as a primary consideration as well as those businesses looking to augment purchasing with additional capabilities (e.g., invoicing) that are easy for end users.
January 16, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa: Vendor Snapshot (Part 1) – Background & Solution Overview
There are many perspectives on Coupa. These range from those who believe that the vendor has single-handedly transformed the world of spend management through building a truly unified suite that is 100% cloud-native, atoning for the over-customization, product and user interface sins of those that came before, to those who think that Coupa has expanded too quickly and is doomed to repeat mistakes others have made in the past.
January 13, 2017 | Art of Procurement
This Week in Procurement: The “Massive Problem” at the Heart of Procurement
It isn’t often in the procurement space that we publicly debate key issues, and that is the key reason behind why I selected this week’s “must read” as a must read.
January 11, 2017 | Fortune
Term Sheet — Wednesday, January 11
Everything besides this news and Donald Trump’s scheduled press conference seems beside the point this morning, so here’s some venture data and private equity macro predictions to distract you.
January 11, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa and Spend360: Spend Analysis Background and Product Analysis
Coupa’s acquisition of Spend360 brings an immediate set of capabilities to Coupa customers — and the basis of a broader, disruptive and embedded offering integrally linked to Coupa’s cloud solution.
January 11, 2017 | PAYMNTS
Coupa Makes First Takeover As Public Firm
The company announced Tuesday (Jan. 10) that it reached a deal to acquire Spend360, a U.K. firm that provides digital data management solutions, including data analytics, using machine learning and artificial intelligence, for corporate finance and procurement teams.
January 10, 2017 | Spend Matters
Coupa Acquires Spend360, Adds Best-in-Class Spend Classification Capability to its Suite
Coupa announced early Tuesday it had acquired Spend360 International Ltd., a best-in-class spend classification vendor. Coupa “has acquired substantially all of the assets of Spend360 International Ltd. to help companies digitize antiquated processes for data classification,” the company said in the acquisition announcement.
January 10, 2017 | Business Travel News
Coupa Strengthens Data Analytics with Spend360 Acquisition
Spend management provider Coupa has bolstered its data analytics capability with the acquisition of Spend360, a U.K. data management and analytics tool that uses machine learning. The deal closed at the end of December.
January 10, 2017 | Reuters
BRIEF – Coupa acquires Spend360 to modernize processes for data analysis
Coupa Software Inc - Acquisition not expected to have a material impact on Coupa's results of operations or financial condition for Q4 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
January 4, 2017 | TechTarget
For CFOs, the time to deploy procure-to-pay software is now
Procurement management software cuts costs, improves transparency
January 2, 2017 | Business Insider
11 things we think will happen in business technology in 2017
In 2016, the enterprise technology market had a wild ride: From explosive IPOs to mega-mergers to surprise acquisitions, it was rarely boring.
January 1, 2017 | VentureBeat
31 tech companies that could be public in 2017
All the companies on this list have recently been highlighted as IPO contenders by private company research startup CB Insights, IPO exchange traded funds (ETF) manager Renaissance Capital, or both firms.
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.
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