[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a preview of our upcoming, Ardent Partners’ Accounts Payable Metrics that Matter in 2019 eBook. Be sure to check back next week when we publish the results.] As modern businesses progress deeper into the digital realm and away from manual, paper-based processes, their automated systems are capturing an increasing amount [...]
February 13, 2019
Philip Bartolini
Best Practices, Research
Many of the technology innovations that will carry Accounts Payable (“AP”) departments and ePayables solutions into the future have already largely arrived. AP and finance leaders that keep an eye on the horizon will most likely already recognize some of the advancements that are pushing AP automation solutions into the future, and create ever-greater efficiencies [...]
February 11, 2019
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, [...]
February 8, 2019
Philip Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
The Ardent Partners ePayables Research team recently met with leaders from Direct Commerce, the cloud-based global ePayables (AP automation) platform provider. On the call were President and CEO, Bruce Hanavan, CTO, Billy Williams, and VP of Marketing, Leela Gill. During our call, the Direct Commerce team provided us with an introduction to the company and [...]
February 6, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Solutions, Technology
In his first Inaugural address as President of the United States in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” When he said this, he certainly wasn’t talking about Accounts Payable (“AP”), electronic payments, and business commerce networks. What FDR was saying that being afraid only makes things [...]
February 4, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Process
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 [...]
February 1, 2019
Philip Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
Welcome to an all-new Payables Place feature, the ePayables Influencer Series, which will highlight innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable automation. This exciting new series will be a go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Our first influencer, Matthew Wright, [...]
January 30, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Solutions, Technology
Earth Day 2019 doesn’t take place until April 22nd, and this blog post might be better suited for then, but the way I see it, the environment is something we should be concerned with all the time and not just one day per year. Some of you are thinking, what does ePayables have to do [...]
January 28, 2019
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, [...]
January 25, 2019
Philip Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
Every now and then I find it helpful to take a step back and consider what makes an organization or department able to achieve better results than its peers. Why is one enterprise more successful than another? Colin Powell – American statesman, retired 4-star general, and former U.S. Secretary of State, said “There are no [...]
January 22, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Process