Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, procure-to-pay (P2P), and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable (AP), 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 [...]
August 10, 2018
Philip Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
With a propensity for convergence with key stakeholders (procurement and treasury) and core technologies, the contemporary Accounts Payable (AP) function is positioned to make a greater impact within the organization. Now, it must commit to transform its function to keep up with the changing business world and change outdated perceptions that some at the executive [...]
September 11, 2017
Philip Bartolini
Event, Research
Our annual “State of ePayables” research survey is now open. Your responses will help us establish the Best-in-Class metrics that readers can use to benchmark the performance of their AP operations. If you have a few minutes, I encourage you to click here and take it. Thanks in advance! CPO Rising regularly collects and publishes P2P [...]
April 28, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
Editor’s Note: As 2015 draws to a close, it is the time of year when we revisit some of our best articles from the past year. Over the next week, the Payables Place team will wrap up its eight-part series on the “Best of 2015.” Today’s article details Ardent’s thoughts on the importance of Lexmark purchasing Kofax, which ran [...]
January 8, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, News
Interesting news abounds in the business world lately. In China, the central government launched a broad-based stimulus designed to help local governments restructure trillions of dollars in debt and meet their obligations. Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced a bill to curb the Federal Reserve’s power to bail out huge financial firms in a [...]
May 14, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners is excited to announce the launch of its 2015 “State of ePayables” market research survey, available here. All participants of this landmark research survey will receive a complimentary copy of the resulting research report in late May. (While the survey is comprehensive, participants can expect to spend only 15 minutes of their time answering the [...]
May 7, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
It’s been a relatively big news week for the accounts payable industry. News of China opening up its payments market to foreign competition is perhaps some of the biggest news, with the revelation that Amazon launched its business-to-business commerce engine a close second. Also, SAP’s Concur has made its flagship TripIt™ app is available on [...]
April 30, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
Kofax Expands Capabilities of World’s First Smart Process Application Development and Deployment Platform Kofax (Nasdaq: KFX) announced the release of TotalAgility® 7.2 this week, the latest update to its flagship product. According to the company’s announcement, the updated TotalAgility solution provides digital transaction management capabilities that can allow users to eliminate paper completely from the signature process. [...]
April 24, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News, Solutions
Accounts payable (AP) has for a number of years been one of the last bastions of manual processes in the enterprise. Many AP teams still process paper-based invoices through a manual process, a workflow which is both expense and rife with process inefficiencies. Thankfully, more and more AP teams are realizing the benefits of automation–lower [...]
April 20, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Event
The Payables Place team has covered a lot of ground over the past two weeks. There was news of Lexmark moving to acquire Kofax, a look at how scan-and-capture invoicing can trigger cost savings, and even a deeper look at one of the biggest trends in accounts payable for 2015. Happy Good Friday and Happy [...]
April 3, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices