I spent the better part of last week at SAP Ariba Live in Las Vegas with fellow Ardent Partners’ analysts Andrew Bartolini and Matthew York and wanted to share my thoughts and impressions of the event. The conference was well attended with over 3,200 participants, making it the largest procurement or spend management event in North [...]

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

The current issues of the day, such as the evolution of networks and continued impact of mobility and other types of innovation, dominate long-term business planning. After all, no true organizational leader wants to ignore what’s happening outside of their company, especially if modern advancements are to play a vital role in the very future [...]

Supplier Portals, also known as Vendor Portals, have played a significant role in enabling more suppliers globally to transact and communicate with their customers across the P2P process. These portals have, without a doubt, been a positive development for Accounts Payable (AP) since they first started to appear roughly 15 years ago. But like the [...]

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

Heightened volatility and increased business risk have combined with tight and uncertain credit markets to ensure that having cash and maintaining direct access to it will remain a priority of the first order for most finance and procurement leaders over the next few years. This has resulted in a business environment that allows for much [...]

I’ve been working with Accounts Payable (“AP”) professionals for almost 15 years now, and it never ceases to amaze me how infrequently they get the recognition and credit they wholeheartedly deserve. More often than not, AP only gets mentioned when there is a problem. Maybe a vendor has not been paid and is looking for [...]

Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, P2P, and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past month. If you are an accounts payable, payments, or spend management solution provider and you have news to share with us, please drop us a note at editor at cporising dot com. You [...]

Over the past decade, Ardent Partners research has consistently shown that transforming an Accounts Payable (AP) department is a worthwhile undertaking that can deliver significant bottom-line value while also elevating AP’s place within the organization. To maximize the value created from their efforts, AP leaders must pursue a holistic transformation that incorporates people, processes, and [...]

It is sometimes easy to forget that when you work in an industry that delivers regular incremental innovation, that the aggregate steps taken forward can be quite significant. This is very true in the world of accounts payable (AP) where the common misconception is that not much has changed over the past ten years. Invoices [...]