Event

Access to accurate and real-time metrics can be a game changer in today’s lightning-fast business world, but first companies must establish and measure the relevant metrics that allow them to understand the current state of performance while laying the groundwork for a desired future state. If a company is unclear of where it stands today, [...]

Earlier this week, Lexmark (NYSE: LXK) announced that it had commenced a cash tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of  ReadSoft (NASDAQ OMX: RSOF-B), a Sweden-based provider of AP automation and document management solutions. ReadSoft was founded in 1991 and has approximately 625 employees. The company is headquartered in Helsingborg, Sweden. The offer [...]

The war is on in the B2B payments and last month at its annual user conference, AribaLIVE, Ariba, an SAP company fired off a big shot. As has become customary, Ariba uses the event to bring together its customers, partners, and staff, as well as industry thought leaders and media to share best practices and [...]

Financially knowledgeable SMBs understand the value of optimizing their cash and having a level of predictability around their cash inflow and outflow – this is where automating AP proves to be valuable for the SMB. Too often, SMBs operate using manual processes resulting in high operational costs, errors and delays and a general lack of [...]

  In the battle for corporate profits, efficiency, and performance, the CFO and the CPO are natural allies, each marked by an increasingly prominent role that demands greater performance. And yet, more often than not, these generals and their battle-tested teams are marching to the beat of a different drummer. Enterprises that allow this CFO-CPO [...]

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 [...]

This is the last in the series of three articles that covers the various announcements and news items that came from Tradeshift Analyst event on March 5th, 2013. Previous articles include: Some interesting stats on Tradeshift’s network and insights into the Intuit partnership in Part 1, and A detailed discussion around CloudScan and Tradeshift’s upcoming [...]

Quick Note: Those who are interested in participating in our annual ePayables study click here to learn more) Continuing with the Tradeshift event in New York last week, let me start Part 2 of this series (Part 1 can be found here) by first discussing CloudScan, a service that Tradeshift created roughly one year ago. [...]

Last week, Tradeshift hosted one of its first public events in New York City. This intimate event was hosted and led by CEO Christian Lanng and brought together industry analysts like myself, journalists, bloggers, investors as well as a few customers. Christian began the day by sharing Tradeshift’s vision and his thoughts on the current [...]

The role of accounts payable is changing, are you involved in that change? AP organizations today, more than ever before, are playing a strategic role the management of the enterprises financial operations. AP plays an important role in key business processes such as the procure-to-pay process as well as larger business trends around eInvoicing and [...]