The role of accounts payable is changing, are you involved in that change? AP organizations today, more than ever before, are playing a strategic role the management of the enterprises financial operations. AP plays an important role in key business processes such as the procure-to-pay process as well as larger business trends around eInvoicing and [...]

Yes, I’m talking about the same Staples that you buy pens and copy paper from. About a month ago, Staples announced the launch of the Staples App Center, an innovative online marketplace for cloud-based business applications. The App Center makes it easy for small businesses to purchase and manage business apps all in one place. [...]

Continuing with Ardent Partners’ ePayables Solution Spotlight series, here is the latest one that focuses on the ePayment market and a solution from American Express – PAYVE (access the full report here). The report contains recent market research around electronic payments as well as insights into the technologies and payment mechanisms that are used to [...]

Last week, Tradeshift made a big splash in the business network pond with the announcement of a strategic partnership that involved a $10 million investment from Inuit. Intuit is the software company responsible for QuickBooks, one of the most widely used SMB accounting software products with approximately 5 million customers. Tradeshift is an eInvoicing provider [...]

In order to continue to provide valuable and insightful content, we decided this year to include articles from other experts in the field on occasion. Today, we have an article from our first “Payables Guest” – Mark Becker, Program Optimization Manager at U.S. Bank Corporate Payment Systems. Most organizations have specific reasons for starting purchasing [...]

Today’s article is a brief snippet of a report that Ardent Partners completed for Concur entitled –The SMB of the Future: Start Fast, Then Accelerate For an entire generation, technology has had an extraordinary impact on the lives of countless millions in the home and office. At home, technology and access to the internet have [...]

It was not so long ago that a trip to the grocery store could be ruined by a single action: having the person at the front of the checkout line decide to pay by check (a decision that was seemingly always made at the last second). From an uncertainty in knowing current account balances, to [...]

Although ADP is best known for providing payroll services, the company is playing an increasing role in the ePayables space with the ADP Procure-to-Pay (P2P) solutions. ADP has been in this space since January of 2010 through its acquisition of DO2 technologies, a provider of electronic invoicing solutions that was well-established in the oil and [...]

Concentra is a health care company that provides occupational medicine, urgent care, physical therapy, and wellness services to workers and the general public from 308 medical centers in 40 states. In addition to these medical center locations, Concentra serves employers by providing a broad range of health advisory services and operating 258 on-site medical facilities. [...]

Today, I’m going to provide a brief summary of a Solution Spotlight report that Ardent Partners recently completed on the U.S. Bank EIPP solution (the complete report can be found here). Just to recap from a previous post, the ePayables Solution Spotlight report helps readers better understand a specific category of automation within AP (in [...]