
Coupa’s Suite: From Procurement To Accounts Payable (Part 1)
In only a few years time, Coupa has gone from a purchase-to-pay (P2P) upstart to the fastest growing eProcurement provider, besting the growth of companies many times its size in new customer wins, adoption levels and percentage revenue increases, among other metrics. In a recent press release, Coupa shared some figures around this growth, including […]

New Research: E-Invoicing Comes of Age – History, Solution Features, Technology Elements, and More!
We’ve done it again. Spend Matters has made yet another attempt at distilling an important topic into a piece of core research that we hope will become essential reading for companies both getting started or wanting to accelerate their…

Examining the Reasons Electronic Invoicing Will Truly Cross the Proverbial Adoption Chasm (Part 2)
The “partial” solution to electronic invoicing seems alive and well, based on some of the survey response data in the Institute of Financial Operations/IAPP/Basware 2011 study on the subject. This partial solution we speak of is, of course, scanning

Examining the Reasons Electronic Invoicing Will Truly Cross the Proverbial Adoption Chasm (Part 1)
Courtesy of Basware, I’ve have the chance to recently dig into the results of the Institute of Financial Operations/IAPP 2011 E-Invoicing survey report, which examines adoption trends and needs/wants of those in the market for electron…

Accounts Payable, The Role of Process, The CustomerNever Think Bloodless
As anyone who knows me, knows (me), I speak at a lot of conferences. I get the opportunity – and never see it as anything less than a true “thank you” opportunity – to put out my sometimes saw-toothed thoughts in front of hundreds of thousands of people a year – and they often genuinely […]

Friday Rant: Getting A/P and Supplier Management Wrong — A Supplier’s Perspective
Some might say that as both a consultant/analyst with subject matter knowledge and business owner, I’m in a position to study the Spend Management sector from a truly unique vantage point. Namely, I constantly talk to folks in both procurement and A/…