Each year, Ardent Partners conducts a series of market research studies focused on the accounts payable (“AP”) and P2P markets. Our most recent of these looked at the state of business-to-business (“B2B”) payments and captured the key findings in a report called “The State of B2B Payments 2015: Emerging Business Value.” The report captures the [...]
January 13, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Research, Technology
Every year, Ardent Partners publishes several benchmark studies into the accounts payable (“AP”) marketplace. One of those is the annual research effort into the state of business-to-business (“B2B”) payments, called “The State of B2B Payments 2015: Emerging Business Value” this year, which Ardent is proud to announce is now available. The report captures the perspectives, [...]
December 7, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Research, Solutions, Technology
Every year, Ardent Partners publishes several benchmark studies into the accounts payable (“AP”) marketplace. One of those is the annual research effort into the state of business-to-business (“B2B”) payments, called “The State of B2B Payments 2015: Emerging Business Value” this year, which Ardent is proud to announce is now available. The report captures the perspectives, [...]
November 23, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Research, Solutions, Technology
Every year, Ardent Partners publishes several benchmark studies into the accounts payable (“AP”) marketplace. One of those is the annual research effort into the state of business-to-business (“B2B”) payments, called “The State of B2B Payments 2015: Emerging Business Value” this year, which Ardent is proud to announce is now available. The report captures the perspectives, [...]
November 18, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Research, Technology
Ardent Partners’ Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini discusses Ardent’s latest report “The State of B2B Payments 2015: Emerging Business Value,” an annual study that presents a definitive look at the B2B payment market and captures the experience, performance, perspective, and intentions of more than 200 finance executives. Click to download the report (registration required). [...]
November 16, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Research, Technology
Nipendo, the provider of a cloud-based P2P-focused platform and Integrate Financial, a new, non-bank finance and technology company announced a partnership to provide supply chain finance solutions to trading partners that leverage Nipendo’s platform. Ardent Partners was briefed on the announcement by Nipendo’s VP of Marketing, Eran Livneh and Integrate Financial’s CEO, Zalman Vitenson, and [...]
April 29, 2014
Andrew Bartolini
News, Other, Solutions, Technology
For any AP/Finance/Procurement/Shared Service professionals that enjoy our articles, please take a few minutes to share your insights by participating in our 2014 AP survey. Participants will receive the full report when it publishes in April 2014. Click here to take the survey For about a decade, the analysts at Ardent Partners have been researching [...]
February 24, 2014
Andrew Bartolini
Technology
Earlier this week I attended Ariba Live in D.C and as always, it was a great event attended by over 2,000 buyers, suppliers and various partners. I’ll be covering more of the event in part 2 of this article next week, today I wanted to focus on the exciting announcement made on May 8th,2013 regarding [...]
May 10, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Event, News
As we know, the EU has made significant progress is establishing rules and regulations around the use of eInvoices, some of these were new regulations that had to be implemented by January 1st, 2013 (click here for a recent article about eInvoicing in the EU). In today’s article we’ll be covering one of the regulations [...]
May 1, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
News
According to the US Small Business Administration, in 2009 (the latest available data) there were about 27.5 million small businesses in the U.S, approximately 6 million of which have employees with the remainder being sole proprietorships. It is safe to assume that a significant chunk of small to mid-sized businesses (SMB’s) suffer from highly manual [...]
June 26, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
Technology