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Ardent Partners’ Technology Round-Up Series returns today with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few major announcements from 2022. If you are a solution provider in the spaces we cover , we’d love to hear from you. Please drop us a note at info at cporising dot com. Thanks, and enjoy! Coupa’s Launches [...]

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its Accounts Payable-themed report, “Accounts Payable 2022: Big Trends and Predictions”. Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key discussion points from the report. The third year of the new decade begins much as last year did: with great uncertainty and a global pandemic that will [...]

Esker, the provider of cloud-based AI-driven process automation solutions for procure-to-pay (P2P), order-to-cash (O2C), and document management processes, yesterday announced is reached an agreement, effective Q1 2022, to acquire a majority control of Market Dojo Limited. The agreement further stipulates that Esker will acquire the remainder of Market Dojo shares after a period of four [...]

The P2P industry is consistently evolving and shifting, forcing AP and finance professionals across the globe to prepare for change and innovation in technology, business regulations, and the general speed of commerce. This complimentary webinar will be an ideal “stage-setting” event for AP and finance professionals as they move into 2022. As they do every [...]

Ardent recently completed its annual AP-themed market research study, “The State of ePayables 2021: Operating in the New Normal”, which is part of an ongoing dialogue that the Ardent team has had with AP and finance leaders for more than a decade. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be discussing the results from this year’s study in [...]

Before we get down to serious business, I thought I would start off with a fun fact about Earth Day: Why is Earth Day Celebrated on April 22nd? The April 22 date was selected in part because it fell between colleges’ spring break and final exams, and also from the observance of Arbor Day, which [...]

Ardent Partners is pleased to announce that the survey for our annual “State of ePayables” report is now open. If you have 15 minutes to spare today or later this week to complete the survey, our team would be most appreciative. The COVID-19 global pandemic created new issues and challenges for AP and Finance organizations [...]

(Editor’s Note – This article by Christopher J. Dwyer, Vice President of Research at Ardent Partners, first appeared on CPORising.com on 11/20/2020) Never before has a public health crisis caused so much disruption in both the personal and business worlds. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented level of chaos as companies were forced [...]

Last week we took a look at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on overall business operations, this week we delve into its impact on AP operations. The pandemic forced stay-at-home restrictions on a majority of workers in North America, Western Europe, Asia-Pacific, and in other developed nations, causing great unrest at the company, community, [...]

Over the past month, the business world has seen “phased reopenings” introduce some semblance of normality to life, albeit against a backdrop (as of this week, unfortunately) of some regions across the world experiencing sharp upticks in the number of confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases. Although the future is still unsettled, and, although most of [...]