b2b payments

Ardent recently completed its annual AP-themed market research study, “The State of ePayables 2021: Operating in the New Normal”, which is part of an ongoing dialogue that the Ardent team has had with AP and finance leaders for more than a decade. If you’d like access to this report, please register for our newsletter with a business email [...]

Top-performing enterprises have taken their AP operations to the next level by leveraging technology to streamline the AP process, make it more efficient, and enable more strategic initiatives to be carried out. Best-in-Class enterprises have demonstrated their ability to drive superior performance across both traditional and contemporary AP metrics. One area where Best-in-Class teams show [...]

We need your input! – Please take the 2021 State of ePayables market research survey.  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ArdentPartners-ePay2021 Ardent Partners’ annual State of ePayables market research survey is part of our ongoing dialogue with AP and Finance professionals for the past 16 years. In exchange for about 15 minutes of your time, you will help us define [...]

Ardent Partners is pleased to announce that the survey for our annual “State of ePayables” report is now open. If you have 15 minutes to spare today or later this week to complete the survey, our team would be most appreciative. The COVID-19 global pandemic created new issues and challenges for AP and Finance organizations [...]

New Report Addresses the ePayables Technology Landscape BOSTON, MA, April 6, 2021 — 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 2021 ePayables Technology Advisor (click to download) is the market-leading technology assessment [...]

For over a decade, Ardent Partners has leveraged a unique framework to highlight the performance of top-tier organizations (versus all others) by analyzing a specific set of benchmark criteria. Over each of those years, Ardent Partners has defined Best-in- Class performance in this research report (download this years’ report – 2020 State of ePayables market research) as [...]

In a world where the speed of business increases moment-by- moment, and new competitors lurk around the next financial statement, it is imperative that enterprises of all sizes take a hard look at how they pay suppliers. The simple fact of the matter is that there is significant untapped value in the financial supply chain, [...]

Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of ePayables  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 Bill Wardwell, Chief Operating Officer, Paymode-X Business Solutions, at Bottomline. Bob Cohen: Welcome Bill [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken many businesses to their core, replacing traditional business structures and protocols with an entirely new paradigm. The ramifications of the pandemic have increased attention on cash management, and therefore, onto suppliers and B2B payments. CFOs, treasurers, and other finance leaders are rethinking not only how to manage and execute payments, [...]

New Report Addresses the B2B Payments Technology Landscape BOSTON, MA, August 17, 2020 — Ardent Partners, a leading research and advisory firm, announced today that its new B2B Payments Technology Landscape report, which analyzes and evaluates B2B Payments technology and leading solutions in the marketplace, is now available. The 2020 B2B Payments Technology Landscape is the market-leading [...]