Over the last couple of weeks we’ve discussed payments automation as being the final frontier of Accounts Payable (“AP”) Automation, along with how electronic payments can be a source of value to organizations. This week, I wanted to delve into one of the biggest challenges facing AP departments with respect to payments, that being exceptions, [...]

Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, procure-to-pay (P2P), and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable (AP), 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 [...]

Accounts Payable is one of the few areas within a business that relies on third parties to adopt and use its solutions. In this regard, it is important for AP to have good engagement with its suppliers. The speed of business is much faster today, and generally requires a high level of engagement and alignment [...]

Where does the most money flow out of an organization? No, it’s not fraud, theft, or even sales meetings. The simple answer is Accounts Payable (“AP”). Since AP pays all the bills of an enterprise, it is not surprising that more money flows out of it than any other part of the organization. Over the [...]

Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, procure-to-pay (P2P), and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable (AP), 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: This is the last week you will be able to download Ardent Partners’ annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Download the report before it’s gone! By now, we’ve already discussed the stats: 52% of organizations polled during our annual survey perceive the accounts payable (AP) function as [...]

In a world where the speed of business increases moment by moment, and the next big competitor is right around the corner, enterprises can ill afford to let business value slip through their fingers. This is, however, what many Accounts Payable (“AP”) organizations have done by allowing manual, paper-based methods to persist in their supplier [...]

Yesterday, Drillinginfo, an Austin Texas-based SaaS and data analytics provider to the energy industry, announced the acquisition of Oildex, a leading oil and gas financial automation software provider. It is the first acquisition by Drillinginfo since the company was itself acquired by Genstar Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm back in July. Terms of [...]

Card giant MasterCard has introduced a new global trade platform for the procure-to-pay (“P2P”) process in collaboration with Microsoft, called MasterCard Track. The goal of the new platform is to address the challenges of manual B2B transactions and the inefficiencies in cross-border trade and payments. MasterCard Track is built on Microsoft Azure, and will be [...]

Years ago, the Accounts Payable (“AP”) roadmap was incredibly clear: shore up inefficiencies, eliminate paper and manual-based processes, and turn to ePayables automation as a way to develop repeatable and scalable operations. Although full AP automation is still the exception instead of the norm, many organizations have followed this roadmap and see success as a [...]