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With the release of my 18th-annual Accounts Payable-themed report, my team and I continue our nearly two-decade-long dialogue with Accounts Payable (AP), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and other finance leaders. The report captures the experience, performance, perspective, and intentions of a wide range of AP departments via the response of 190 AP and finance professionals. The report [...]

With the release of my 18th-annual Accounts Payable-themed report, my team and I continue our nearly two-decade-long dialogue with Accounts Payable (AP), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and other finance leaders. The report captures the experience, performance, perspective, and intentions of a wide range of AP departments via the response of 190 AP and finance professionals. The report [...]

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 Way for a Smarter Future. This event marks the worldwide premiere of major findings from Ardent Partners’ 18th annual State of ePayables in 2023 research report. As the world enters [...]

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 ePayables Technology Advisor report, which analyzes and evaluates the accounts payable (AP) solutions marketplace, is now available. The 2023 ePayables Technology Advisor is the market-leading technology assessment report designed to [...]

Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Tomika Russell, President of Symbeo. Ardent Partners:  Welcome Tomika [...]

Editors Note: This article by John Yuva,  Director of Research Operations at Ardent Partners, first appeared on October 27th on The Future of Work Exchange   What does the concept of “team” mean for today’s remote and hybrid enterprises? Many workplaces now operate with dispersed teams. With the criticality of teamwork to execute company initiatives [...]

Given recent trends toward improving business processes in a bid to increase efficiencies and drive down costs, one wonders why more enterprises have not fully automated their AP processes. This is especially true in light of the challenges brought on by the pandemic, which made paper-based processes unworkable with the work-from-home mandates that most employers [...]

Given their recent performance, many AP teams are destined for greater things, supported by the growing perception of the function as adding real value to the enterprise at large. However, as shown in the figure below, the path forward in 2022 is paved with more hurdles standing between AP organizations and their targeted results for [...]

“Perception” has long been one of the biggest issues holding AP groups down within the organizational hierarchy of an enterprise. Perception acts as a lens through which reality is viewed, understood, and acted upon. As such, there is a tendency to assume that how reality is perceived is what it truly is. For many years, [...]

Now in year three, COVID-19 continues to persist, and its outlook for the remainder of 2022 remains unclear. However, it is clear that much of the pre-pandemic world has faded away and that the “new normal” described in last year’s report is beginning to take shape. One area that appears forever changed is the workplace. [...]