From the earliest of entrepreneurs to the largest of today’s global corporations, significant time and resources have been invested in the development of financial management expertise and capabilities – an investment best represented by the Chief Financial Officer or CFO, the executive at the helm of the finance department. Today, finance is, perhaps, the most [...]
July 19, 2019
Andrew Bartolini
Process
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of 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).] Developing an [...]
July 17, 2019
Philip Bartolini
Process, Research
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of 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).] ‘Smart’ systems [...]
July 15, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Research, Technology
Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. We continue our FinTech Influencer Series today with Laurent Charpentier, the COO and Chief Innovation Officer [...]
July 10, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Solutions, Technology
Coupa Inspire was held last week, June 24-27 in Las Vegas at the chic Cosmopolitan Hotel and Conference Center. Ardent Partners’ analyst team was in attendance. During the conference, Coupa Software, the San Mateo, California-based provider of end-to-end spend management applications for the cloud, made many announcements — most relating to its family of B2B payments applications, Coupa [...]
July 8, 2019
Andrew Bartolini
Solutions, Technology
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of 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).] While it [...]
July 3, 2019
Philip Bartolini
Other
[Editor’s Note: You can download The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence Report by clicking here.] A modern AP operation can differentiate itself from historical iterations by executing a multifaceted plan for the future that is dependent on solving tactical requirements and challenges while also enhancing its big data opportunity. As shown in [...]
July 1, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Research
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, [...]
June 28, 2019
Philip Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
Join us on Thursday, June 27 at 2pm ET, for a complimentary webinar presentation on our latest market research report “The State of ePayables 2019 Webinar” (click to register), sponsored by Certify. Ardent Partners recently published its State of ePayables 2019 Report, and one of the major themes we saw from this annual market research [...]
June 26, 2019
Philip Bartolini
Best Practices, Research, Webinar
A few years ago the mere mention of data mining and data scientists in the same sentence as Accounts Payable would probably have gotten you puzzled and even concerned looks from your colleagues and counterparts in other areas of the business. But today, the concepts and ideas are not as far-fetched as they once seemed. [...]
June 24, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Research