Technology

Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, P2P, and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable, B2B Payments, or Spend Management solution provider and you have news to share with us, please drop us a note at editor at cporising dot [...]

[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 [...]

In 2019, the accounts payable (“AP”) team is well positioned to move beyond providing value to the enterprise based on increased efficiency and more towards becoming an intelligence hub for the organization at large. Leaders of these teams must now aim to become the sort of strategic partner that can showcase the AP unit’s usefulness [...]

If you haven’t already, we invite you to participate in the 2019 edition of Ardent Partner’s annual State of ePayables research study. Below are three reasons, among many to take the survey now: As a thank you for participating in the research study, all participants will receive a complimentary copy of the final report when [...]

I hope that even casual readers of our sites know that my firm, Ardent Partners, has spent that past decade performing extensive market research in the areas of sourcing/procurement, accounts payable/payments, and contingent workforce/Future of Work. In that time, Ardent has benchmarked thousands of distinct organizations across all aspects of their programs. With such an extensive [...]

Some of the Ardent Partners analyst team (Bob Cohen & myself) journeyed to Chicago last week to attend Basware’s North American User Conference, Basware Connect, one of the few user conferences that is positioned for both procurement and AP professionals. Here are some key takeaways: Visible Commerce The Day One Keynote was delivered by Eric [...]

Two companies, a similar task, different corporate cultures, and diametrically opposite results. Over the past few weeks, we presented a case study on the specific experiences of two rival companies and their implementations of similar supply management technology suites. Specifically, we looked at the impact that the existing corporate culture had on the implementation and overall [...]

According to authors P. Montana and B. Charnov (in the 2008 edition of their book, Management) by way of Wikipedia, Corporate culture is defined as the “total sum of the values, customs, traditions, and meanings that make a company unique. Corporate culture is often called ‘the character of an organization,’ since it embodies the vision of the company’s founders. [...]

Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, P2P, and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable, B2B Payments, or Spend Management solution provider and you have news to share with us, please drop us a note at editor at cporising dot [...]

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Iris Martinez, Delivery of Services and Technology Director for Latin America, based in Mexico, for Pearson, about her experiences and lessons learned from implementing      e-Invoicing in Latin America (LATAM). Iris will be presenting a user case study on this topic on May 15th at the Exchange [...]