business networks

In 2019, businesses and consumers are now fully engulfed by technology and the data it both creates and captures. The same holds true for accounts payable (“AP”) departments across the globe. Accounts Payable’s Big Data has the potential to become the next major force and catalyst for the profession. In fact, over the next few [...]

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “Best of” 2018 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.  It is sometimes easy to forget that when you work in an industry that delivers regular incremental innovation, that the aggregate steps taken forward can [...]

[Publisher’s note: Today, we borrow the tradition begun 9 years ago at our sister site CPO Rising to bring you “The Dog Days of Summer” article in August, so we thought we’d re-publish this great post from years’ past so that new readers of our site can enjoy it, as well. The concepts are as [...]

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the report’s key findings. If you would like to get the full report, it is available for download here (registration required).] One of the most fascinating things [...]

It is sometimes easy to forget that when you work in an industry that delivers regular incremental innovation, that the aggregate steps taken forward can be quite significant. This is very true in the world of accounts payable (AP) where the common misconception is that not much has changed over the past ten years. Invoices [...]

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 [...]

Editor’s Note: As 2015 draws to a close, it is the time of year when we revisit some of our best articles from the past year. Over the next week, the Payables Place team will wrap up its eight-part series on the “Best of 2015.” Today’s article details Ardent Research Director Chris Dwyer’s thoughts on how business networks could [...]

Editor’s Note: As 2015 draws to a close, it is the time of year when we revisit some of our best articles from the past year. Over the next week, the Payables Place team will wrap up its eight-part series on the “Best of 2015.” Today’s article is a case study from Concur Fusion 2015, which originally ran [...]

[Publisher’s Note: Today’s article is an analysis of two similar but separate presentations delivered by Ariba executives at their user conferences this spring. The first was at AribaLIVE in Las Vegas (April 7-9), the second was at AribaLIVE Munich (June 8-10).] We live in a global world. Ariba is a global platform. We can do [...]

Like normal, the analysts of Ardent Partners have taken a deep dive into accounts payable (AP) topics over the past two weeks. From the final part of our series looking into the future of AP, to the past, present, and future of business networks … read on to catch up on everything you might have [...]