Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “Best of” 2018 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. I’ve been working with Accounts Payable (“AP”) professionals for almost 15 years now, and it never ceases to amaze me how infrequently they get the [...]
December 28, 2018
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Research
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “Best of” 2018 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. It is sometimes easy to forget that when you work in an industry that delivers regular incremental innovation, that the aggregate steps taken forward can [...]
December 26, 2018
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Research, 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, [...]
December 21, 2018
Philip Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
Tradeshift, the San Francisco based provider of supply chain payments and marketplaces, yesterday announced the acquisition of Babelway, a provider of cloud integration technology. Babelway, which is headquartered in Belgium, with offices in the US, Australia, and Egypt, offers a SaaS-based integration platform that automates B2B data and documents. The solution allows organizations to automate [...]
December 19, 2018
Philip Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
For all of the discussion regarding the future, it would behoove contemporary Accounts Payable (“AP”) units to model the series of key capabilities, competencies, technologies, and solutions that enable leading AP organizations to achieve Best-in-Class performance, and prove that the team has the power to drive true value across the scope of greater business operations. [...]
December 18, 2018
Philip Bartolini
Best Practices, Research, Technology, Webinar
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 [...]
December 14, 2018
Philip Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
[Editor’s Note: In Ardent’s “Supply Management Metrics that Matter in 2018” (click to download), we discuss the supply management industry’s best and most widely used metrics that can inform and educate procurement and AP professionals on what is happening in the market and how best to build a high-performing department.] The concept of an intelligent [...]
December 12, 2018
Philip Bartolini
Process, Research, Technology
Last week, I discussed the challenges Accounts Payable (“AP”) and Procurement organizations face attracting talent in today’s hyper-competitive labor market. This week I want to cover the second half of the ‘New Approach to Procurement Talent Management’ session I moderated at Ardent Partners’ CPO Rising 2018 Summit in Boston last month. This portion of our [...]
December 10, 2018
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Event, 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, [...]
December 7, 2018
Philip Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners is pleased to present its latest report, Five Signs You’re Ready for an AP Transformation, sponsored by Tipalti. If you are interested in reading more about this topic, be sure to download the full report by clicking here.] In today’s digital age, opportunities abound for enterprises to innovate and disrupt the [...]
December 5, 2018
Philip Bartolini
Research, Technology