Technology

The war is on in the B2B payments and last month at its annual user conference, AribaLIVE, Ariba, an SAP company fired off a big shot. As has become customary, Ariba uses the event to bring together its customers, partners, and staff, as well as industry thought leaders and media to share best practices and [...]

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2014 is going to be an exciting time for the providers of ePayables solutions and for the AP organizations that use them. For far too long, AP departments have been stuck with manual and inefficient processes. And while many will continue to struggle this year, in 2014, we expect to see more organizations begin initiatives [...]

I’ve been covering the AP/P2P/Payment space for quite some time now and while there may have been a lack of innovation in this space in years past, over the last few years we’ve seen a much higher rate of innovation in this particular technology space. These innovations appear in the form of new technologies such [...]

This is the last is a series of articles focused on new technology providers and their capabilities around dynamic discounting. The first article on Taulia can be found here and for the second on C2FO click here. Today’s focus will be Tradeshift and although I’ve covered Tradeshift before, this discussion will provide some insights in [...]

This is part II of a series focused on new technology providers that have entered the space often referred to as Dynamic Discounting within the last 5 years. The ultimate goal of these types of technologies is to optimize working capital and improve cash flow management between trading partners. Part I was on Taulia (click [...]

In this series I wanted to focus on a few of the ‘newer’ technology providers in this space and their solutions around dynamic discounting. Although providers such as Ariba and ADP do offer this capability, over the last 5 years this market has attracted some new entrants and they have gained significant traction within a [...]

Last week I attended Ariba’s annual event along with Andrew Bartolini and Chris Dwyer. As mentioned in an earlier article one of the main announcements was that Ariba together with Discover is entering the B2B payments market with the introduction of AribaPay (read more about it here). In addition to this there was a lot [...]

Andrew Bartolini is co-author of today’s article A quick trip back to the late nineties and we would see the online B2B marketplace craze that was just beginning was ahead of its time – Then business networks were over-hyped – the result of (1) having a technology that failed to keep pace with the vision [...]

I have the pleasure of welcoming a “Payables Guest” today, Lynn Heitman, Senior Product and Marketing Officer, U.S. Bank Corporate Payment Systems. Heitman’s career in the payments industry spans 24 years beginning with the management of some of the first Affinity credit card programs in the 1980s and since then has worked in several areas of [...]