Executives and other leaders in procurement (and accounts payable) increasingly have roles with global responsibilities and implications. For this reason, I have taken a European focus with a few of our recent articles, Five Things You Should Know eInvoicing in the Eurozone and Making Payments in the Eurozone. Today we continue with our third in [...]

At the beginning of May I had the opportunity to meet with the Basware team and was briefed on the recent launch of Basware Analytics as well as some new and improved capabilities around Basware’s eProcurement solution. As many of you may know, Basware is a provider of eInvoicing and procure-to-pay (P2P) solutions, the company [...]

Last week I attended Ariba’s annual event along with Andrew Bartolini and Chris Dwyer. As mentioned in an earlier article one of the main announcements was that Ariba together with Discover is entering the B2B payments market with the introduction of AribaPay (read more about it here). In addition to this there was a lot [...]

Earlier this week I attended Ariba Live in D.C and as always, it was a great event attended by over 2,000 buyers, suppliers and various partners. I’ll be covering more of the event in part 2 of this article next week, today I wanted to focus on the exciting announcement made on May 8th,2013 regarding [...]

As we know, the EU has made significant progress is establishing rules and regulations around the use of eInvoices, some of these were new regulations that had to be implemented by January 1st, 2013 (click here for a recent article about eInvoicing in the EU). In today’s article we’ll be covering one of the regulations [...]

In part 1 of this article, I covered the annual Concur Fusion event and some of the announcements made around the new Concur App Center, Open Booking and The Perfect Trip Fund. Today’s piece will continue to highlight some of new capabilities that Concur is looking to deliver to its customers including updates around Concur’s [...]

The European Union is by far the most advanced region of the world in its usage and implementation of electronic invoicing standards and regulations. Despite this region’s progress, there is still more to do. Other countries like Brazil, Mexico and Argentina have also made significant progress in establishing regulations around eInvoicing, however, they are very [...]

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend Concurs annual event in Las Vegas, Fusion 2013. An event that has become a focal point for the corporate travel industry involved more than 2,000 attendees and a growing number of partners including travel suppliers, travel technology providers and travel management companies. Today’s article is going to [...]

This is the third in our business network series, Part 1 focused on European business networks while Part 2 focused on networks that have a specific vertical focus. Today’s article will discuss the networks that focus on enabling payments to be made between trading partners. As we think about the method in which payments are [...]

Another great contribution from the author of CPO Rising, Andrew Bartolini We started in Part 1 of this series with a look at the European business network landscape and some of the primary challenges and opportunities facing it. We also highlighted a few of the different European network providers as a way to provide a [...]