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SAN FRANCISCO, May 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP ), a leader in business spend management (BSM), today announced new product innovations to advance the company’s BSM capabilities. Debuted at its annual Inspire conference in San Francisco, the innovations include enhancements to community intelligence, third-party systems, and user-centric experiences that will provide businesses even more visibility into spend, processes, and performance.  

“Traditionally, finance and procurement teams faced numerous challenges that have prevented effective visibility throughout their organizations,” said Raja Hammoud, senior vice president of products at Coupa . “Our BSM solution brings everything together with a single, easy-to-use cloud platform, and our new product enhancements take that holistic approach even further, enabling spend-focused analysis by decision makers.“

Community Intelligence The new product release focuses on business fraud, category spend, and employee responsiveness to help customers make accelerated, data-driven decisions using prescriptive community intelligence .

Spend Guard uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze employee spend transactions to help detect potential fraud. Spend Guard takes an important step in transforming fraud auditing by analyzing employee behaviors across all spend applications on the Coupa platform to help detect potential fraud. This application is currently available in an early access program.

Commodity Insights helps businesses optimize category spend. Insights include identification of top suppliers for critical commodities, spend benchmarks, and recommendations to maximize spend value.

Approver Cycle Times empowers users to speed up or slow down the approval process by comparing individual performance to peer performance.

Open Platform for Third-Party Systems The new release extends the value of BSM with third-party systems to support end-to-end business processes that span different functions across an enterprise.

Coupa Inventory is now voice activated. Users can access Amazon Alexa® voice commands to locate items, adjust inventory balances, and reorder stock. The voice capability is currently available in an early access program.

Coupa Open Buy expands to include supplier items and pricing content from additional suppliers such as Imperial Supplies, Office Depot, and Staples. The additional suppliers are currently available in an early access program.

Coupa Risk Aware monitors hundreds of data sources to reduce supply chain risk. The application can now integrate with customers’ own sources of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) data and enables customers to calibrate the data sources to create their own supplier health score.

User-centric Experiences Coupa continues to deliver more user-centric experiences to increase productivity such as:

• Automatic tax coding for supplier invoices
• Contract creation from Coupa Sourcing Optimization
• Improved handling of business requests that do not result in purchases

“Coupa’s cloud platform coupled with its continuous innovation is a strategic asset for businesses,” said Mickey North Rizza, program vice president, enterprise applications and digital commerce at IDC . “The company’s rapid development of innovative digital tools for business spend management has improved the user experience across business spend and enhanced the value to focus on the supplier. This is why we have recognized them as a global leader in our recent IDC MarketScape reports .”

About Coupa Software Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP ) is the cloud platform for business spend management (BSM). We deliver “Value as a Service” by helping our customers maximize their spend under management, achieve significant cost savings and drive profitability.  Coupa provides a unified, cloud-based spend management platform that connects hundreds of organizations representing the Americas, EMEA, and APAC with millions of suppliers globally. The Coupa platform provides greater visibility into and control over how companies spend money. Customers – small, medium and large – have used the Coupa platform to bring billions of dollars in cumulative spend under management.  Learn more at www.coupa.com . Read more on the Coupa Blog or follow @Coupa on Twitter .

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