AP Predictions

The accounts payable industry is consistently evolving and shifting, forcing AP and finance professionals across the globe to prepare for change and innovation in technology, regulations, and the general speed of commerce. Join Ardent Partners and SAP Concur on Tuesday, January 30th, at 1:00 PM ET for a new webinar focused on Accounts Payable 2024: [...]

Join Ardent Partners and Esker on December 14th (2 PM ET) for a webcast on Accounts Payable 2024: BIG Trends and Predictions. Are you ready for 2024? Are you sure? This webinar is designed to help! As the world enters a new era of technological innovation, the accounts payable (AP) function is on the cusp [...]

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its Accounts Payable-themed report, “Accounts Payable 2022: Big Trends and Predictions”. Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key discussion points from the report. Today, we conclude our look at Accounts Payables’ BIG Trends for 2022 with three important trends. Big Trend – ePayments Continue their [...]

The Process to Develop Ardent’s Annual BIG Trends and Predictions List Since 2014, Ardent Partners has gathered our senior analyst team together usually at our headquarters in Boston (but this year virtually) during the second week of January for a multi-day kickoff, during which time we dedicate serious hours to review the prior year’s research [...]

Editor’s Note: As 2015 draws to a close, it is the time of year when we revisit some of our best articles from the past year. Over the next two weeks, the Payables Place team will share an eight-part series of the “Best of 2015.” Today’s article is one from our AP predictions series, which originally ran on [...]

Following our series on trends in accounts payable, Payables Place is going to take a look at predictions for the future of the AP function. Today’s installment, the last of four, will take a look at how B2B payments will soon become a strategic business process. The when and how of paying suppliers has not, in many [...]

The world of accounts payable (AP) is shifting. A mere 15 years ago, the function mostly concerned itself with processing paper invoices. Today, paper invoices are still prevalent, but technology solutions to automate the AP workflow are becoming increasingly feature-rich and widespread in footprint as enterprises realize the cost-savings to be had from automating accounts [...]

Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners is excited to announce the launch of its 2015 “State of ePayables” market research survey, available here. All participants of this landmark research survey will receive a complimentary copy of the resulting research report in late May. (While the survey is comprehensive, participants can expect to spend only 15 minutes of their time answering the [...]