B2B networks

The financial services market continues to innovate with the announcement of a joint venture between two prominent players: HSBC, the London-based financial services organization serving more than 40 million customers, and Tradeshift, a leading B2B business commerce platform with customers operating in more than 190 countries. An agreement lays out plans to launch a new, [...]

Editors Note: Members of the Ardent ePayables Team (Bob & Phil) recently took a briefing with Mike Donaldson, the Chief Marketing Officer at Oildex to discuss three of their five different product lines (OpenInvoice, Field Ticket, and  Oilfield Services Suite), and their plans for the upcoming year. Company Background Oildex which is headquartered in Denver, [...]

The speed of business continues to accelerate while markets expand, shift, merge, and emerge at a pace never seen before. The result is a fast-moving and highly-competitive global marketplace that finds its participants increasingly interconnected and under greater pressure to exploit any and all opportunities that arise. In this business climate, agility and innovation are [...]

Ardent Partners’ research over the past few years has shown that while the average accounts payable department still lacks automation, executive focus, and general alignment with the enterprise, leading enterprises are using their AP function to a competitive advantage. That said, why is it that so many AP departments continue to face time, cost and [...]

In the earlier post (The Rise of the B2B Network and B2B Payments) we talked about the increasing need for eInvoicing providers to create value for suppliers as well as buyers and today I’m going to explore that perspective a little further. You are invited to participate in our annual AP Market Research, click here [...]

2014 is going to be an exciting time for the providers of ePayables solutions and for the AP organizations that use them. For far too long, AP departments have been stuck with manual and inefficient processes. And while many will continue to struggle this year, in 2014, we expect to see more organizations begin initiatives [...]

Last week I attended Ariba’s annual event along with Andrew Bartolini and Chris Dwyer. As mentioned in an earlier article one of the main announcements was that Ariba together with Discover is entering the B2B payments market with the introduction of AribaPay (read more about it here). In addition to this there was a lot [...]

Another great contribution from the author of CPO Rising, Andrew Bartolini We started in Part 1 of this series with a look at the European business network landscape and some of the primary challenges and opportunities facing it. We also highlighted a few of the different European network providers as a way to provide a [...]

Andrew Bartolini is co-author of today’s article A quick trip back to the late nineties and we would see the online B2B marketplace craze that was just beginning was ahead of its time – Then business networks were over-hyped – the result of (1) having a technology that failed to keep pace with the vision [...]

This is the last in the series of three articles that covers the various announcements and news items that came from Tradeshift Analyst event on March 5th, 2013. Previous articles include: Some interesting stats on Tradeshift’s network and insights into the Intuit partnership in Part 1, and A detailed discussion around CloudScan and Tradeshift’s upcoming [...]