Coupa

Posted by Andrew Bartolini & John Yuva It may be December, but that doesn’t mean merger and acquisition activity has ceased. This week, news broke that Coupa Software, a leader in business spend management, entered into an agreement to be acquired by Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm. Valued at $8.0 billion, Coupa will [...]

Coupa Inspire was held last week, June 24-27 in Las Vegas at the chic Cosmopolitan Hotel and Conference Center. Ardent Partners’ analyst team was in attendance. During the conference, Coupa Software, the San Mateo, California-based provider of end-to-end spend management applications for the cloud, made many announcements  — most relating to its family of B2B payments applications, Coupa [...]

Basware today announced that it has terminated discussions with Tradeshift in relation to a possible offer to acquire all shares in Basware. These two leaders in the Procure-to-Pay (“P2P”) space had been in discussions for months about a possible union between the two organizations. When asked about today’s news Basware’s CEO, Vesa Tykkyläinen, told Ardent [...]

Hello and Happy New Year from the Payables Team at Ardent Partners. We are happy bring back our P2P Technology Round-Up with another assortment of ePayables, P2P, and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past few weeks. If you are an Accounts Payable, B2B Payments, or Spend Management solution provider and you [...]

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “Best of” 2018 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.  Supplier Portals, also known as Vendor Portals, have played a significant role in enabling more suppliers globally to transact and communicate with their customers across [...]

Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, procure-to-pay (P2P), and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable (AP), B2B payments, or spend management solution provider and you have news to share with us, please drop us a note at editor at [...]

While walking around the Coupa Inspire 2018 event in San Francisco last week, I had the opportunity to speak with quite a few customers and prospects, and the feedback I received was very positive. There is definitely a buzz about Coupa and the overall direction the company is taking. One particularly positive impression from the [...]

I spent three days last week at Coupa Inspire 2018 event in San Francisco, and wanted to share my thoughts and impressions of the event. Knowing a thing or two about planning and executing conferences from my previous job, it was clear to me that Coupa is experiencing impressive growth in its user base. The [...]

Supplier Portals, also known as Vendor Portals, have played a significant role in enabling more suppliers globally to transact and communicate with their customers across the P2P process. These portals have, without a doubt, been a positive development for Accounts Payable (AP) since they first started to appear roughly 15 years ago. But like the [...]

One of the more important jobs of the accounts payable professional is keeping up with what is happening in the industry at large. This is critical for a few reasons, including skills development and the hunt for new technologies, but is sometimes difficult to do. That is why, each week, the team at Payables Place [...]