There has long been a common misconception that all Accounts Payable does is pay bills. Anyone who works in AP or with knowledge of today’s AP function knows, nothing could be further from the truth. In Ardent Partner’s recent ‘State of ePayables 2018’ (click to download) research report, one of the things we set out [...]
August 13, 2018
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Research, Technology
[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).] The discussion of where Accounts Payable [...]
August 8, 2018
Philip Bartolini
Process, Research, Technology
It’s 11pm on Monday night and I am on hold with my airline trying to get through to an agent to change a flight I have for the next day. The airline, at 10:23pm, sent me an email about possible travel disruptions the next day due to weather (thunderstorms) and said I could change my [...]
August 6, 2018
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Technology
[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).] In 2018, the role of the AP [...]
August 1, 2018
Andrew Bartolini & Bob Cohen
Process, Research
[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).] If you’re like me you don’t [...]
July 30, 2018
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Research
[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 [...]
July 23, 2018
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Process, Research
[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).] “Perception” has long been one of [...]
July 16, 2018
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Process, Research
The speed of innovation within the world of finance is accelerating and new technologies and strategies are emerging that will make a big impact on the accounts payable (“AP”) industry. The AP function has risen in stature, prominence, and impact within the enterprise over the past few years, but the larger opportunities for value creation [...]
July 6, 2018
Philip Bartolini
Best Practices, Event, Research, Webinar
Join us on Wednesday, July 11 at 2pm ET for a complimentary webinar presentation on our latest market research report, “The State of ePayables 2018 The Future of AP is Now,” sponsored by AvidXchange (click here to register). For most enterprises, the opportunity to transform and modernize the accounts payable (AP) organization is both significant and achievable [...]
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). The broad industry wide transformation that [...]
July 2, 2018
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
News, Process, Research