[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its Accounts Payable-themed report, “Accounts Payable 2024: BIG Trends and Predictions”. Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles
Part of the Ardent Partners team made it to Vegas last week for the Coupa Inspire conference. You can expect another article or two covering the
Join Ardent Partners and Kofax on October 5th (11 AM ET) for a webcast on Digital AP Innovation: Transforming Your Accounts Payable Department for Success.
Join Ardent Partners and Esker on May 31 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET for a discussion on The State of ePayables 2023: Paving the
Ardent Partners research showed a spike in fraud activity during the pandemic, that unfortunately continues today. Cyber-criminals became more brazen (and more technologically advanced) since
For many years, the B2B payment process was an extremely low priority for most AP departments. However, that has changed and ePayments represent the current
Today on Payables Place, we’re sharing a listicle from CPO Rising that focuses on the CFO and gaining value from a top-performing AP operation. Every
New Report Addresses the ePayables Technology Landscape BOSTON, MA, April 11, 2023 — Ardent Partners, a leading research and advisory firm, announced today that its new
Most people know Concur as a leading provider of travel and expense management solutions. However, for some time now, they have been offering a solution that allows clients to manage inbound invoices and pay them. The offering includes eInvoicing capabilities, scan and capture services, a self-service supplier portal and payment processing and execution. Now, all [...]
July 12, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
News
Following the most recent addition to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) ePayables offering, I had a chance to have a chat with Samridhi Sarin, Director, Senior Product Manager of ePayables at BAML. The announcement was the launch of a new feature called exact auth override. This feature, which may sound technical and complicated, [...]
July 10, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
News
Introducing PAYVE®, a new digital payment service from American Express Earlier this year, I wrote a report that predicted the top ten things that will shape the AP market in 2012 and yes, you guessed it, one of the predictions was that 2012 has a very good chance of becoming ‘The Year of Electronic Payments” [...]
July 6, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
News
This can be a noisy and complicated market to understand, so at Ardent we created this visual representation which is based on our ePayables Framework that is discussed here in more detail. Using the three major phases of the AP process as the basis for the categorization, solution providers fall within or across the phases [...]
July 3, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
Research, Technology
The results of Best-in-Class organizations show that an investment in Procure-to-Pay (P2P) can pay large dividends, while the relentless pressure on bottom-line performance makes a P2P investment all, but necessary, for most groups. Yet, the speed and level of returns from a P2P initiative can and do vary widely. Competing short-term initiatives from distinct organizations [...]
June 28, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
Process
According to the US Small Business Administration, in 2009 (the latest available data) there were about 27.5 million small businesses in the U.S, approximately 6 million of which have employees with the remainder being sole proprietorships. It is safe to assume that a significant chunk of small to mid-sized businesses (SMB’s) suffer from highly manual [...]
June 26, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
Technology
Last month, Ardent Partners completed its annual AP focused market research report – ePayables 2012: The State of The AP Market. This extensive piece of research, which took up most of my time over the last few months uses data gathered from approximately 220 organizations and captures the strategies, performance and intentions of AP departments [...]
June 22, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
Research
The strategic value of AP & Dynamic Discounting in creating high yield, low risk investment opportunities. In today’s global economy the enterprise faces multiple areas of financial concern, from the Eurozone crisis to slow economic growth and tight credit markets. This makes the job of the corporate treasury a difficult one. Some of their top [...]
June 20, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
Event
As this is the first article after yesterday’s launch, I thought it best to start off by providing our view of the accounts payable world. At Ardent, we use the term ePayables to describe the various solutions and services that automate all or part of the AP process and in case you were wondering, yes, [...]
June 19, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
Process
Let the games begin! Welcome to Payables Place, the site where the research team at Ardent Partners will share its research, analysis, and ideas on the world of accounts payable (and procure-to-pay) processes, strategies and technologies. More specifically, this new site will cover the important news items and announcements in the ePayables marketplace, offer commentary [...]
June 18, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
News