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The History of Coupa: Moving Procurement Practice Beyond Adjunct Complexity – Part 1 (Original Post Date: September 8th, 2008)
December 12, 2022
"COUPA SOFTWARE ENTERS INTO DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT TO BE ACQUIRED BY THOMA BRAVO FOR $8 BILLION."
Does Procurement Pundit Advice Have A “Shelf Life?” Unravelling the Supplier Relationship Mystery
November 14, 2022
When someone offers you advice, what makes it good?
Why You Should Read This New White Paper On Supply Chain Resilience And Agility
May 5, 2022
If you only read one paper on supply chain resilience and agility, this is the one to read - I promise.
Forrester SVM Wave, a holistic take on Source to Pay: Specialist vendors break out from the ERP pack
March 25, 2022
(Forrester’s SVM (Supplier Value Management) essentially corroborates to “Source to Pay”, which is the more commonly used terminology amongst procurement practitioners). From an analysts’ research point of view, the Source to Pay segment has had a huge strategic coverage void. While most analyst firms produced reports on specific parts of the S2P cycle (e.g., S2C, […]
Gartner P2P MQ 2021 is a great equalizer; AI is the key differentiator
October 28, 2021
Review of the Gartner P2P Magic Quadrant 2021
COUPA CEO’s fever gets the better of him
August 29, 2017
We have all played the word association game at one point in time or another. For those unfamiliar with the premise, here is how it works; I give a word You tell me what immediately comes to mind when you see or hear that word Pretty straight forward, so let’s play. Word: IBM “THINK” ENIAC […]
You Can Read My Posts On Spend Matters PRO And Other Pictures Of The Week
May 19, 2017
Most of you may not remember either Look or Life magazine, as both ceased publication in the early seventies. They were bi-weekly periodicals with minimal text that featured photographs of current events. One could say that with either publication a picture was literally worth a thousand words. In the spirit of these once great magazines, here […]
Mickey North Rizza v. Thomas Kase
May 3, 2017
Some of the people who have been following the #coupakase story had observed that while Thomas Kase’s move to Coupa isn’t as noteworthy as when Mickey North Rizza jumped to Bravo, they are in agreement that the optics are an issue. I would agree with this assessment from the standpoint of poor optics. However, for […]
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The History of Coupa: A Tale of Two Industry Titans – Part 2
December 13, 2022
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How do privately-owned eProcurement service providers deliver greater transformation success than publicly-owned providers?