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The recent AP Honors Ceremony celebrated the accounts payable profession and recognized excellence in the field. During the ceremony, Ardent Partners presented awards for outstanding performance and execution in the last year – “The AP Honors” – to a variety of high achievers including Accounts Payable and P2P leaders and teams, as well as ePayables [...]

Join Ardent Partners and Corcentric on August 29th (11 AM ET) for a webcast on The State of ePayables 2023: Paving the Way for a Smarter Future. The continued economic and market uncertainty means enterprises must leverage their big data even more to navigate the business horizon. Operationally, new technologies play a critical role in [...]

For many years, the B2B payment process was an extremely low priority for most AP departments. However, that has changed and ePayments represent the current focus for many AP teams as well as the next wave of AP innovation.  Here are but a few of the many benefits of paying suppliers electronically.   Want more [...]

New Report Addresses the ePayables Technology Landscape BOSTON, MA, April 11, 2023 — Ardent Partners, a leading research and advisory firm, announced today that its new ePayables Technology Advisor report, which analyzes and evaluates the accounts payable (AP) solutions marketplace, is now available. The 2023 ePayables Technology Advisor is the market-leading technology assessment report designed to [...]

The Accounts Payable (AP) profession has been around for a long time and is a vital component of any organization. AP professionals are responsible for ensuring that all invoices and bills are paid on time, and that the company’s financial records are accurate and up-to-date. However, many people underestimate the value of the AP profession [...]

Editors Note: This article by Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer and Founder of Ardent Partners, first appeared December 6th on our sister site, CPORising Chief Procurement Officers face a myriad of supply risks from supplier insolvency to union strikes to geopolitical crises to inflation. However, one area of risk that has spiked in recent years but has [...]

Today’s guest contribution was provided by the team at Corcentric. After the challenges of the past two years—and amid present economic uncertainties—chief financial officers can claim a major victory. Accounts payable teams are viewed as vital business partners at a rate twice as high compared to six years ago, with 66% of businesses saying AP [...]

Editors Note: This article by John Yuva,  Director of Research Operations at Ardent Partners, first appeared on October 27th on The Future of Work Exchange   What does the concept of “team” mean for today’s remote and hybrid enterprises? Many workplaces now operate with dispersed teams. With the criticality of teamwork to execute company initiatives [...]

Given their recent performance, many AP teams are destined for greater things, supported by the growing perception of the function as adding real value to the enterprise at large. However, as shown in the figure below, the path forward in 2022 is paved with more hurdles standing between AP organizations and their targeted results for [...]

Now in year three, COVID-19 continues to persist, and its outlook for the remainder of 2022 remains unclear. However, it is clear that much of the pre-pandemic world has faded away and that the “new normal” described in last year’s report is beginning to take shape. One area that appears forever changed is the workplace. [...]