Panjiva, provider of a business-to-business platform for procurement, has added data on more than 80,000 companies exporting goods from U.S. ports.

Nipendo, a vendor of cloud-based services for managing buyer and seller relations, has introduced a tool for achieving "end-to-end" invoice reconciliation.

Basware, a vendor of electronic-invoicing and procurement applications, has developed Basware Purchase.

At the Smarter Commerce Global Summit, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a study that says companies with high-performing procurement organizations are driving better bottom line results, according to an IBM study. These organizations report profit margins of 7.12 percent as compared to just 5.83 percent for companies with low-performing procurement organizations. Also, companies with top-performing procurement organizations report profit margins 15 percent higher than the average company - and 22 percent higher margins than companies with low-performing procurement organizations.

Companies plan to spend more in 2013 on a range of procurement-related technologies, but they are seeking a more strategic approach to doing so. So says a survey, "Corporate Spending and Procurement Trends - 2013", was conducted by Xchanging, a business process, procurement and technology services provider and integrator.

Ariba is partnering with Dell Boomi to allow for faster integration to the Ariba Network for business-to-business collaboration.

Selectica, a vendor of contract lifecycle management software, has made available its latest release.