[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the report’s key findings. If you would like to get the full report, it is available for download here (registration required).] Over the last decade, Accounts [...]
August 5, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Research
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to readers of our network of sites, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and events. To commemorate the occasion, we are going to reflect on the firm’s first decade by presenting a “throwback” series that will include a blend of top [...]
July 31, 2019
Philip Bartolini
Best Practices, Process
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to readers of our network of sites, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and events. To commemorate the occasion, we are going to reflect on the firm’s first decade by presenting a “throwback” series that will include a blend of top [...]
July 26, 2019
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Process
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to readers of our network of sites, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and events. To commemorate the occasion, we are going to reflect on the firm’s first decade by presenting a “throwback” series that will include a blend of top [...]
July 24, 2019
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Process
From the earliest of entrepreneurs to the largest of today’s global corporations, significant time and resources have been invested in the development of financial management expertise and capabilities – an investment best represented by the Chief Financial Officer or CFO, the executive at the helm of the finance department. Today, finance is, perhaps, the most [...]
July 19, 2019
Andrew Bartolini
Process
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the report’s key findings. If you would like to get the full report, it is available for download here (registration required).] Developing an [...]
July 17, 2019
Philip Bartolini
Process, Research
[Editor’s Note: You can download The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence Report by clicking here.] A modern AP operation can differentiate itself from historical iterations by executing a multifaceted plan for the future that is dependent on solving tactical requirements and challenges while also enhancing its big data opportunity. As shown in [...]
July 1, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Research
A few years ago the mere mention of data mining and data scientists in the same sentence as Accounts Payable would probably have gotten you puzzled and even concerned looks from your colleagues and counterparts in other areas of the business. But today, the concepts and ideas are not as far-fetched as they once seemed. [...]
June 24, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Research
[Editor’s Note: You can download The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence Report by clicking here.] I am excited to announce the publication of Ardent Partners’ 14th annual State of ePayables research report. The theme of this year’s report is “Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence”. This report presents a comprehensive, industry-wide view [...]
June 10, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Research, Technology
Many of the major shifts in the business world over the past decade revolved around the idea that businesses needed to “do more with less.” A decade removed from an economic downturn that forced enterprises to seek alternative workforce strategies vis-a-vis massive layoffs and organizational restructuring, there is one major fact that resonates with both [...]
June 3, 2019
Philip Bartolini
Process, Research