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 13, 2019
Andrew Bartolini
Event, Solutions, Technology
Editor’s Note: In 2019, just about everyone in the technology world is talking about and writing about Blockchain distributed digital ledgers, including the supply management world. It’s not the cool new thing everyone’s talking about but hardly anyone’s doing — it’s real, and it’s happening. When mated with other emerging technologies and innovations, like connected [...]
November 22, 2019
Andrew Bartolini
News, 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
Every day, solution providers continue to research, develop, and integrate “Industry 4.0” technologies, like 3-D printing, Blockchain distributed digital ledgers, cognitive capabilities, connected devices, and robotics within sourcing, procurement, and payables / accounts payables business tools, giving rise to a new generation of supply management tools, dubbed “Procurement 4.0.” Blockchain ledgers, in particular, now rival [...]
December 17, 2018
Andrew Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
The research team at Ardent Partners recently met with Tradeshift in its San Francisco headquarters. CEO and Chairman, Christian Lanng led the discussion attended by Chief Strategy Officer, Sarika Garg, Chief Marketing Officer, David Ahrens and other members of the Tradeshift team. The meeting was an informal session that morphed into a larger pre-briefing ahead of some company announcements [...]
March 21, 2018
Philip Bartolini
Research, Solutions, Technology
I spent the better part of last week at SAP Ariba Live in Las Vegas with fellow Ardent Partners’ analysts Andrew Bartolini and Matthew York and wanted to share my thoughts and impressions of the event. The conference was well attended with over 3,200 participants, making it the largest procurement or spend management event in North [...]
March 12, 2018
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Event
While a fully automated Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process remains the exception and not the rule in today’s market, Best-in-Class procurement departments are keenly aware of the importance of process automation in driving efficiencies and improving visibility into both enterprise spend and the underlying processes of the function. Ardent Partners research finds that Best-in-Class procurement departments automate [...]
December 1, 2017
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Process, Technology
Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2017: The Convergence of Cash, Suppliers, and Intelligence. If you would like to access the report, it is available for download here (registration required). The average accounts payable (AP) operation today faces many of the same challenges that were faced by AP groups a decade [...]
August 18, 2017
Andrew Bartolini
Process, Solutions, Technology
Business networks are web-based platforms that enable interconnected buyers and suppliers to trade, communicate, and collaborate with each other. As a result of this inherent nature, and the drive among enterprises to increase collaboration across the supply chain, business networks have grown in popularity over the past several years. Business networks also allow for process [...]