Artificial Intelligence

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 [...]

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 Shan Haq, Vice President of Corporate Strategy & [...]

As I’ve written about the last few weeks, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robotic Process Automation are having an impact on Accounts Payable (“AP”), and will continue to do so at an even greater pace moving forward. Today, we are going to take a look at another technology, predictive analytics, which holds great promise not [...]

What exactly is Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially as it relates to the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) and Finance? Today, AI seems to be a ‘catch-all’ term used to lump together so many different things having to do with automation. In far too many conversations I’ve had, and in articles I’ve read, Robotic Process Automation [...]

The emergence of innovative technologies in recent years has the potential to radically alter the way business is done. As enterprises intensify their focus on optimizing internal processes, modern Accounts Payable (“AP”) teams are now better positioned to advance beyond their transactional past and showcase their strategic value. Emerging technologies like Blockchain, Machine Learning, and [...]