Utmost aims to give enterprises a holistic view of the sprawling extended workforce
Startup Utmost, which just raised a $21 million funding round, aims to give Workday customers better oversight of their fast-growing extended workforce
Spend management
Coupa ends fiscal 2021 on a strong note as customer focus on spend management remains high on the corporate agenda
Strong revenue growth and better-than-Wall-Street-expected net income reflects the ongoing importance of spend management, particularly at a time of global crisis.
'I need to be more agile, more flexible. I need to get to the cloud’ - Workday co-CEO Aneel Bhusri on the post-pandemic CFO imperative
The need for a modernized finance system at the heart of any organization has never been more obvious, says Bhusri.
Coupa tops off 2020 with strong Q3 revenue growth, customer wins and that important supply chain acquisition
Spend management specialist Coupa has had a solid calendar year against a pandemic backdrop that's made keeping on top of spending an even more critical requirement for businesses.
Why Coupa bought Llamasoft - bringing community intelligence to the supply chain
Coupa's acquisition of Llamasoft is a big test for its community intelligence strategy, bringing it into supply chain planning
Why Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn's B2B community intelligence concept may struggle to expand beyond spend
My interview with Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn about his new book Smarter Together and the future prospects for Community Intelligence
Book review - Smarter Together - Rob Bernshteyn on Community Intelligence in business
A new book by Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn maps out how businesses can benchmark performance and opportunity by pooling community intelligence
Global procurement goes digital at mobile telecoms giant Vodafone
Vodafone's global procurement chief tells us how going digital on a 'best-of-suite' platform has opened up visibility across spend and supply chain management
Wrangling complex supply chains with Chaos Theory
Complex supply chains are inherently chaotic, which means demand planners need to understand Chaos Theory and the math behind it to unravel what's going on
Supply chain concern #1: Unpredictability. The cure? AI-enabled supply chain planning
Supply chain unpredictably is a top concern, but enterprises are wary of 'AI Snake Oil'. Noodle.ai's Gaurav Palta explores how to find value in AI-enabled planning
Tackling massive uncertainty in supply chains with AI
AI is helping demand planners make sense of volatility during the COVID-19 pandemic. Noodle.ai's Gaurav Palta explains some of the data science being applied to the supply chain
Coupa turns in strong Q1 numbers as product offerings align with COVID-19 procurement and spend needs
A good first quarter for spend management firm Coupa as organizations adjust to the realities of operating in a COVID-19 economy.
Brian Sommer's Month in Review - April 2020
April was was a month that was inevitably dominated by COVID-19 related news and information.
