NEC Europe: Taking control of spending with shift to Coupa cloud This article is sponsored by:

Japanese tech giant leverages Coupa’s “Amazon-like procurement” to support turnaround strategy

The big lie: Europe's IT purchasing level playing field This article is sponsored by:

Cloud for Europe: another public IT project built to fail? This article is sponsored by:

Cloud for Europe is supposed to unleash cross-border public sector procurement of cloud services, but the project has failure written all over it

Chasing satisfaction can undermine digital success This article is sponsored by:

Zuora sees societal subscription shift This article is sponsored by:

Zuora is seeing a societal shift in consumption preferences which in turn is causing an evolution in the way that businesses price and deliver goods and services.

Weekend rant: escaping expense hell This article is sponsored by:

Expense Hell is a common and painful experience and especially so in large organizations where cumbersome processes encourage bad behaviors. What's the impact and what's the alternative?

No clue IT buyers and how to stop them This article is sponsored by:

Fed up of being told the CMO is the new IT buyer? Just wait till you come across the No Clue Buyer!

Quietly reinventing B2B commerce This article is sponsored by:

Deem (formerly Rearden Commerce) is in the midst of a 20-year mission to reinvent commerce by turning B2B spending into an in-app purchase in your daily routine

Ariba's network strategy This article is sponsored by:

Ariba's networks strategy is a long vision of how indirect spend gets optimized. It's a vision I find compelling.

How to kill maverick spending This article is sponsored by:

Killing off maverick spending is one of the much vaunted claims for spend management. When put in those terms the allure sounds obvious. But what do you do when you have no systems to manage spending? Check out how Storebrand did it, achieving 20 percent savings along the way.