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Join Ardent Partners’ Bob Cohen, Vice President of Research, on Tuesday, August 10th at 1 PM ET for a complimentary webinar presentation based on our flagship market research report “The State of ePayables 2021” (click to register) sponsored by iPayables. This webinar (register now) will feature a comprehensive, industry-wide view into what is happening in [...]

Ardent recently completed its annual AP-themed market research study, “The State of ePayables 2021: Operating in the New Normal”, which is part of an ongoing dialogue that the Ardent team has had with AP and finance leaders for more than a decade. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be discussing the results from this year’s study in [...]

[Editor’s Note: Click here to register to Ardent’s upcoming webinar, Payables Metrics That Maximize Your Buying Power, sponsored by Ivalua.] Establishing and measuring relevant and actionable metrics is an important part of any business function since it provides the opportunity to set, track, and ultimately achieve goals and objectives while providing the key inputs to [...]

Ardent Partners is excited to announce a new “Fireside Chat” online event scheduled for this Thursday, June 17th at 1 PM ET. The opportunity for digital transformation in Accounts Payable (“AP”) has never been more appealing or necessary; it has also never been easier. Broad improvements in functionality, usability, cloud technology, integration, costs, and general [...]

  Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of ePayables  automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Nick Sprau, Co-CEO at Metafile  Bob Cohen: Welcome Nick and [...]

The benefits of automating the AP function have never been in question. The reason for doing so where never more obvious than over the past 16 months. Organizations that had already completed a digital transformation of accounts payable were better prepared to the harsh realities of a changed world that was thrust upon all of [...]

Top-performing enterprises have taken their AP operations to the next level by leveraging technology to streamline the AP process, make it more efficient, and enable more strategic initiatives to be carried out. Best-in-Class enterprises have demonstrated their ability to drive superior performance across both traditional and contemporary AP metrics. One area where Best-in-Class teams show [...]

We need your input! – Please take the 2021 State of ePayables market research survey.  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ArdentPartners-ePay2021 Ardent Partners’ annual State of ePayables market research survey is part of our ongoing dialogue with AP and Finance professionals for the past 16 years. In exchange for about 15 minutes of your time, you will help us define [...]

Before we get down to serious business, I thought I would start off with a fun fact about Earth Day: Why is Earth Day Celebrated on April 22nd? The April 22 date was selected in part because it fell between colleges’ spring break and final exams, and also from the observance of Arbor Day, which [...]

Over the past year, the challenges of maintaining business continuity with outdated technology and processes were experienced by far too many organizations. Along with this, the problem of manual processes was never more apparent and exposed enterprises that were still relying on paper to get things done. However, with every challenge comes a corresponding opportunity, [...]