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Pierre Mitchell (personal photo) Our readers will be aware of the incredible breadth of content that Spend Matters produces on a daily basis to help the procurement professional be more informed and effective. Through our deep-dive vendor and technology analyses, breaking and daily news stories, CPO interviews, and opinion and insight into current affairs of the business world, we aim to equip our readers and subscribers with the knowledge to make meaningful decisions. And with our unique SolutionMap technology ranking engine, our tech-matching service and dedicated research, we st...

Pixabay Last year we held a webinar with procurement and supply chain data categorization experts Creactives and their customer Siemens. Focusing on how to “accelerate your procurement data categorization” it was extremely well-attended and produced a lot of audience Q&As. Recognizing the imperative for clean, categorized data in their digital transformation and process automation initiatives, attendees had concerns over just how complex and time-expensive it is to implement an AI-driven categorization system. They also wanted to know how some of the bigger firms had faced their...

Adobe Stock Later this month, Creactives and Spend Matters will join forces to host an online event tackling the nightmare that is procurement data. Data quality is imperative and can promote savings across an organization. Sometimes, though, organizations have a hard time finding and working with data. Some of the ways businesses have solved the problem is through a combination of organizational focus and the use of artificial intelligence. In this webinar, Spend Matters’ Chief Research Officer Pierre Mitchell will share data nightmares that many CPOs face and give ways to fix th...

Africa Studio/Adobe Stock Economic activity in the services sector continued to grow in February, according to the latest Services ISM Report on Business. The services PMI — formerly known as the Non-Manufacturing NMI — was 55.3% last month, according to the report. The February number was 3.4 percentage points lower than the January rate of 58.7%. But February’s reading still represents growth in the services sector because any number above 50 indicates expansion. The number represents the ninth straight month of growth after a contraction in the spring because of the Covid c...

Adobe Stock Fiverr, the online freelancer platform provider, has announced its Q4 2020 and full year (FY) 2020 financial results. The company experienced high growth, partly driven by coronavirus tailwinds, as normalization of remote work increased and demand among small and mid-sized businesses for digital marketing services grew. Fiverr’s innovations (e.g., Promoted Gigs or services, subscriptions for certain services, etc.), global expansion and sophisticated marketing (Fiverr has no sales force) also likely contributed to the company’s growth. Q1 2020 Active buyers, as of De...