Technology

The SupplierPay pledge that 26 large corporations signed in a July press conference at the White House has as one of its two tenets the need to craft financing solutions that allow small suppliers to get paid faster. Luckily, there are three technologies that—when implemented correctly—can allow large corporate buyers to give their small suppliers [...]

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers, executives, and those who aspire to these roles. The report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of accounts payable, as well as focusing on [...]

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers, executives, and those who aspire to these roles. The report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of accounts payable, as well as focusing on [...]

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers, executives, and those who aspire to these roles. The report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of accounts payable, as well as focusing on [...]

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers, executives, and those who aspire to these roles. The report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of accounts payable, as well as focusing on [...]

When last we talked about Nipendo (Nipendo: A Not-So-Little Business Network with Big Dreams), it was a general discussion about the company and its growth trajectory. Today, I’d like to dive a bit deeper into Nipendo Supplier Cloud, the company’s flagship business network. Business networks, as we’ve previously explained (What Every Executive Should Know about [...]

Complexity is the name of the game in today’s globalized, interconnected business world. Who companies are connected to and how you communicate and collaborate matters more than ever. This means that whether you’re a Fortune 50 manufacturer or a Global 2000 CPG firm, you need to pay your suppliers in a reasonable timeframe. There are [...]

Lexmark International (NYSE: LXK) on June 18 increased its initial tender offer for Swedish AP automation provider ReadSoft AB (NASDAQ OMX: RSOF-B) to 43 kronor per share, a 7.4% increase over its initial offer of 40.05 kronor, in the wake of competition from the UK business unit of Hyland Software. Earlier in the day on [...]

  Ardent Partners recently published a new AP focused report. Entitled AP Metrics that Matter (click to download, registration is required) and sponsored by Kofax, this Ardent Partners research report discusses the importance of capturing and analyzing data and presents a set of “metrics that matter” for finance and AP leaders alike to track, evaluate, [...]

Nipendo, the provider of a cloud-based P2P-focused platform and Integrate Financial, a new, non-bank finance and technology company announced a partnership to provide supply chain finance solutions to trading partners that leverage Nipendo’s platform. Ardent Partners was briefed on the announcement by Nipendo’s VP of Marketing, Eran Livneh and Integrate Financial’s CEO, Zalman Vitenson, and [...]