New Report Addresses the ePayables Technology Landscape BOSTON, MA, April 11, 2023 — 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 2023 ePayables Technology Advisor is the market-leading technology assessment report designed to [...]
April 11, 2023
Andrew Bartolini
Other
Unfortunately, in addition to the traditional, primarily tactical- related challenges facing AP year after year that I discussed a couple of weeks ago, Ardent Partners believes there are several new risks on the horizon that could negatively impact AP performance in 2022 and beyond. AP leadership needs to be aware of these threats, monitor them, [...]
August 8, 2022
Christopher Dwyer
Research, Technology
Now in year three, COVID-19 continues to persist, and its outlook for the remainder of 2022 remains unclear. However, it is clear that much of the pre-pandemic world has faded away and that the “new normal” described in last year’s report is beginning to take shape. One area that appears forever changed is the workplace. [...]
July 19, 2022
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Other, Research
Join us today, June 28, at 2 PM ET for a complimentary webinar presentation based on our upcoming flagship market research report “The State of ePayables 2022” (click to register) sponsored by Esker. This webinar is the culmination of Ardent Partners’ 17th annual “State of ePayables” research study that examines Accounts Payable (“AP”) organizations and [...]
June 28, 2022
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Research, Webinar
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its Accounts Payable-themed report, “Accounts Payable 2022: Big Trends and Predictions”. Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key discussion points from the report. The third year of the new decade began much as last year did: with great uncertainty and a global pandemic that will [...]
February 25, 2022
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, News
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its Accounts Payable-themed report, “Accounts Payable 2022: Big Trends and Predictions”. Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key discussion points from the report. Today, we conclude our look at Accounts Payables’ BIG Trends for 2022 with three important trends. Big Trend – ePayments Continue their [...]
February 4, 2022
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Research, Technology
Please join Ardent Partners with special guests from Corpay for an exciting new webinar, on July 29th at 2pm EST, that presents the key findings of Ardent Partners’ 16th Annual “State of ePayables” report! The COVID-19 crisis both revealed new challenges for accounts payable (AP) and finance departments globally and highlighted AP’s overall importance to [...]
July 28, 2021
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Research, Webinar
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. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be discussing the results from this year’s study in [...]
July 28, 2021
Andrew Bartolini & Christopher Dwyer
Research
The benefits of automating the AP function have never been in question. The reason for doing so where never more obvious than over the past 16 months. Organizations that had already completed a digital transformation of accounts payable were better prepared to the harsh realities of a changed world that was thrust upon all of [...]
May 17, 2021
Andrew Bartolini & Bob Cohen
Best Practices, Solutions, Technology
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, [...]
November 2, 2020
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Process, Research, Technology