Iron Mountain is a company that many of our readers may already be familiar with. For the most part, the company is best known as a document management and storage provider. While this is still true, over the last few years Iron Mountain has evolved into a broader information management provider. Within one of its [...]
May 28, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Solutions
At the beginning of May I had the opportunity to meet with the Basware team and was briefed on the recent launch of Basware Analytics as well as some new and improved capabilities around Basware’s eProcurement solution. As many of you may know, Basware is a provider of eInvoicing and procure-to-pay (P2P) solutions, the company [...]
May 20, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
News, Solutions
In part 1 of this article, I covered the annual Concur Fusion event and some of the announcements made around the new Concur App Center, Open Booking and The Perfect Trip Fund. Today’s piece will continue to highlight some of new capabilities that Concur is looking to deliver to its customers including updates around Concur’s [...]
April 29, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Other
The European Union is by far the most advanced region of the world in its usage and implementation of electronic invoicing standards and regulations. Despite this region’s progress, there is still more to do. Other countries like Brazil, Mexico and Argentina have also made significant progress in establishing regulations around eInvoicing, however, they are very [...]
April 24, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, News
Andrew Bartolini is co-author of today’s article A quick trip back to the late nineties and we would see the online B2B marketplace craze that was just beginning was ahead of its time – Then business networks were over-hyped – the result of (1) having a technology that failed to keep pace with the vision [...]
April 1, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Research, Technology
Last week, Tradeshift hosted one of its first public events in New York City. This intimate event was hosted and led by CEO Christian Lanng and brought together industry analysts like myself, journalists, bloggers, investors as well as a few customers. Christian began the day by sharing Tradeshift’s vision and his thoughts on the current [...]
March 11, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Event, News
Last week, Tradeshift made a big splash in the business network pond with the announcement of a strategic partnership that involved a $10 million investment from Inuit. Intuit is the software company responsible for QuickBooks, one of the most widely used SMB accounting software products with approximately 5 million customers. Tradeshift is an eInvoicing provider [...]
January 30, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Event
Today, I’m going to provide a brief summary of a Solution Spotlight report that Ardent Partners recently completed on the U.S. Bank EIPP solution (the complete report can be found here). Just to recap from a previous post, the ePayables Solution Spotlight report helps readers better understand a specific category of automation within AP (in [...]
November 1, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
Technology
2012 continues to be a big year for Basware in this quickly consolidating eInvoicing market. On Oct 5th, Basware signed an agreement to acquire the eInvoicing and network business of Certipost for €18.2MM. Certipost based in Aalst, Belgium is a subsidiary of bpost (the Belgian Post Group) and is a leading eInvoicing provider in the [...]
October 15, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
News
Undeniably, the social network has forever changed and continues to change the manner in which people communicate, interact, collaborate and share information with their network of family, friends, co-workers, acquaintances, people with similar interests, etc. That’s in our personal lives, but how have social networking concepts impacted the way commerce is conducted and how will [...]
August 2, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
Technology