Basware

We covered a lot of ground on Payables Place in the past two weeks; from travel and expense management goals, through the CFO’s viewpoint on the travel and expense market, along with a new eProcurement toolkit, and into some fancy new payments automation software from two major players in the business network space. In case [...]

For many years, payment systems existed as an afterthought for other ePayables (accounts payable automation) systems. That all changed in the last few years, with more and more AP-driven RFPs that began to treat payments as a critical piece of AP transformation. The early September introduction of Basware Pay, a joint venture between Basware (Helsinki: [...]

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has a habit of taking aim at industries it decides are antiquated. Thirteen years ago it was the way consumers purchased music; on September 9, the Silicon Valley giant decided that mobile payments deserved its attention. That fateful Tuesday, Apple unveiled “Apple Pay,” a mobile-payments app that uses Near Field Communication (NFC) [...]

Six weeks ago, President Obama announced the voluntary SupplierPay initiative. Already this week, we’ve gone over why the pledge matters in the first place and the technology tools that could make it happen, but I find myself wondering if this pledge means small businesses will actually get paid sooner or not. What is this SupplierPay [...]

The SupplierPay pledge that 26 large corporations signed in a July press conference at the White House has as one of its two tenets the need to craft financing solutions that allow small suppliers to get paid faster. Luckily, there are three technologies that—when implemented correctly—can allow large corporate buyers to give their small suppliers [...]

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers, executives, and those who aspire to these roles. The report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of accounts payable, as well as focusing on [...]

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers, executives, and those who aspire to these roles. The report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of accounts payable, as well as focusing on [...]

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers, executives, and those who aspire to these roles. The report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of accounts payable, as well as focusing on [...]

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers, executives, and those who aspire to these roles. The report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of accounts payable, as well as focusing on [...]

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers, executives, and those who aspire to these roles. The report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of accounts payable, as well as focusing on [...]