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The accounts payable (AP) function has changed significantly in the past 15 years; more opportunity exists now, in fact, to effect change than ever before, which has allowed many AP teams to become more automated and responsive to the needs of the enterprise. This evolution is critically important if AP is to become a strategic [...]

Today is an auspicious day for Ardent Partners. Chief Research Officer Andrew Bartolini and Research Director Christopher Dwyer are going to be giving a webinar at 2 pm Eastern time on Accounts Payable trends in 2015 in partnership with Concur (click here to register). News around the payables world has been fairly big as well; [...]

Today’s ever-changing and dynamic business world necessitates the alignment between an enterprise, its suppliers, and the myriad processes and capabilities that are required to effectively manage corporate spend. The overarching need to maintain visibility, that of the “360-degree kind,” is transforming the way the typical business views the inter-connectivity of its network of suppliers, partners, [...]

There wasn’t really any explosive news to come out of the payables world this past week—really just a few news items to pass along. For one, the former CEO of ReadSoft has moved over to Medius post the Lexmark acquisition, and PrimeRevenue gains a new partner in a Detroit-based supply chain finance solution provider. But [...]

Over the past few years, Lexmark (NYSE: LXK), the longstanding manufacturer of laser printers and print supplies, has made an aggressive push into software and services. On Tuesday, March 24, it continued this push with the announcement of its plans to buy Kofax (NASDAQ: KFX) for $11 per share or approximately $1 billion, net of cash at closing. The price [...]

We’ve had a fair number of good articles in the past few weeks here at Payables Place; there was an insightful Telecom Expense Management article, the first few articles in Chris Dwyer’s Spring Training series, and even a nice piece on Declining Balance Cards (but I’m biased on that one). So, without further ado, here’s [...]

We’re doing a special edition of Payables News Weekly this time around, focusing entirely on news about Basware. The Finnish commerce network had a big past few weeks, inking two brand-new partnerships not long after launching their Basware Discount offering to augment the Basware Financing Services portfolio. (We wrote about Basware Discount in Payables News [...]

We’re back with yet another news roundup. This time around there’s only one news roundup today (more’s the pity), but that doesn’t mean there isn’t valuable news germane to your daily accounts payable and financial operations life. First off is SciQuest and Transcepta inking a new partnership deal, then we move to India for a [...]

As always, we’ve covered a lot of ground in the past few weeks on Payables Place. February drew to a close with a detailed look at the reasons to use a corporate travel card, as well as a two-part look at the true value of scan-and-capture invoicing. There were also some thoughts on how to [...]

In this morning’s news roundup, we touched on how 20% of the United Kingdom’s workforce is “fiddling” their business travel expenses and Visa Europe’s recent tokenization efforts among other news. Now, in this afternoon installment, we reveal some new partnerships happening across the accounts payable world and Kofax’s latest communication with London Stock Exchange shareholders. [...]