And in the other, contract management/contract visibility, Coupa saw a chance to release a native contract compliance and visibility toolset (not full contract lifecycle management, including authoring) linking the contract lifecycle with core eProcurement in a truly procurement-centric manner. In one case, e-invoicing, Coupa was previously lacking an answer to Basware, Ariba and others outside of a simple invoicing capability. Still, despite our limited interaction with the release so far, we'd argue that the forthcoming launch extends Coupa's footprint in probably the two most strategic areas the vendor could head. Two members of the Spend Matters team have been briefed on Release 8, but we have not yet seen the new functionality and enhancements outside of screen shots, so we'll withhold our detailed commentary until we've had a chance to play in the tool sandbox a bit. Yesterday, Coupa announced that it would soon launch Release 8, making the latest version of its cloud P2P application suite available on September 14th.

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