Last week I presented on a webinar with Zycus entitled ‘Design Thinking: Top Strategies for P2P Success’. The webinar contained some excellent practical and useful information that I thought would make for the basis of a good article. The webinar kicked off with an overview of the state of ePayables in 2018 and then went [...]
April 2, 2018
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Process, Technology
Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, P2P and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable, B2B Payments, or Spend Management solution provider and you have news to share with us, please drop us a note at editor at cporising dot com. Thanks, [...]
March 9, 2018
Philip Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
Heightened volatility and increased business risk have combined with tight and uncertain credit markets to ensure that having cash and maintaining direct access to it will remain a priority of the first order for most finance and procurement leaders over the next few years. This has resulted in a business environment that allows for much [...]
February 28, 2018
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Process
Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2017: The Convergence of Cash, Suppliers, and Intelligence. Today’s article is part of a new four-part series focused on how the role of the Accounts Payable professional has changed over the last 15 years. If you would like to get the full report, it [...]
August 10, 2017
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Process, Research
Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2017: The Convergence of Cash, Suppliers, and Intelligence. 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). Historically, the Accounts Payable (“AP”) [...]
July 26, 2017
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Research
Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners is proud to announce the publication of a new report on the trends and value drivers for AP and procurement, sponsored by Corcentric, and available here (registration required). Today’s article will share some thoughts on a theme similar to that report. The science of physics is split into two branches: special [...]
September 8, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Research, Solutions, Technology
Payments have not, historically, been viewed as tremendously important in most enterprises. This is no longer the case, and in fact payments are quickly taking on more strategic importance across a huge number of organizations; more enterprises have realized that making payments more efficient can provide huge savings, and electronic payments (ePayments) are the gateway [...]
June 30, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Technology
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 [...]
August 20, 2014
Andrew Bartolini
Research