Most people rightfully assume an unpaid invoice is a liability. After all, an invoice means you or your organization owe another organization or person payment for goods or services they provided to you or your firm. Payment terms are almost always stated on the invoice and typically specify that the buyer has a maximum number [...]

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 [...]

Editor’s Note: Join us on Thursday, September 13 at 2pm ET for a complimentary webinar presentation based on our flagship market research report, “The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now,” sponsored by Bottomline Technologies (click here to register). Today, the typical Accounts Payable (“AP”) team continues to work slowly, but surely, [...]

The first Monday of September in the United States (and Canada) is a federal holiday called Labor Day. According to the US Department of Labor, “Labor Day is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made [...]

As summer turns to fall, like so many leaves will do here in New England, we at Ardent Partners wanted to take a moment to round up and highlight some of the major events we’ve got in store this autumn. With all the excitement over pumpkin spiced-this and cranberry-flavored that, it can be easy to overlook [...]

Ardent Partners is pleased to present its newest custom research report, How AP Can Leverage Data to Make an Impact, sponsored by Esker. Interested readers can download the report for free by clicking here (registration required). Access to accurate, real-time data can be a game changer to Finance and Accounts Payable (“AP”) teams operating in [...]

[Publisher’s note: Today, we borrow the tradition begun 9 years ago at our sister site CPO Rising to bring you “The Dog Days of Summer” article in August, so we thought we’d re-publish this great post from years’ past so that new readers of our site can enjoy it, as well. The concepts are as [...]

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 [...]

Ardent Partners’ 13th annual “State of ePayables” Report, written by Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, and Research Director, Bob Cohen, presents a comprehensive, industry-wide view into what is happening in the world of Accounts Payable today, by drawing on the experience, performance, and perspective of AP and finance executives. Now is your opportunity to hear [...]

While the accounts payable (“AP”) function has long been one of the last bastions of manual processes in an enterprise, we have started to see a small technological evolution that has transitioned the AP industry away from manual tasks that have proved to be both time consuming and costly. The pressure to automate operations – [...]