B2B Network

Last week, Ardent’s Research Director, Bob Cohen, and I met with Ernest Rolfson, the Founder & CEO of B2B payment network provider, Finexio. During our call we discussed some of the challenges that Accounts Payable (AP)/Finance leaders face today, and some of the things that Finexio is doing to help solve these challenges for its [...]

This is your final chance to participate in our annual AP market research study – click here to take the survey. All participants get a free copy of the final report which will publish next month. For most enterprises, conducting business today and successfully delivering goods and services to their customers means managing an increasingly [...]

As many of you may know, Paymode-X is a growing B2B settlement network from Bottomline Technologies (read our last article covering them here). Paymode-X currently has more than 230,000 active members and processes approximately $130 billion in payments annually. On December 5th, 2014, Bottomline announced the general availability of the latest version of its settlement [...]

I’ve been covering the AP/P2P/Payment space for quite some time now and while there may have been a lack of innovation in this space in years past, over the last few years we’ve seen a much higher rate of innovation in this particular technology space. These innovations appear in the form of new technologies such [...]

This is the last is a series of articles focused on new technology providers and their capabilities around dynamic discounting. The first article on Taulia can be found here and for the second on C2FO click here. Today’s focus will be Tradeshift and although I’ve covered Tradeshift before, this discussion will provide some insights in [...]

Networks, Networks, Networks…they’re all the rave these days and they will continue to be in 2014. The first of these networks, which were developed in the mid-to-late nineties, targeted the procurement function and were at the heart of the B2B internet craze. At the time, these “online marketplaces,” as they were referred to then, invested [...]

Based on research from Ardent’s latest report – ePayables 2013: AP’s New Dawn eInvoicing solutions remove paper from the AP process by creating invoices electronically and maintaining that format through the validation matching, and approval processes. While an eInvoicing solution is deployed by the buying organization, it requires participation from the supplier base to become [...]

Download the full report here For most enterprises, conducting business today means managing an increasingly complex set of relationships with the ‘Extended Enterprise,” an ecosystem which has grown to include suppliers, distributors, partners and other key entities. And, while these relationships continue to grow in complexity, they are also increasingly important to a company’s overall [...]