The Ardent ePayables Research team recently met with Karla Friede, CEO and Co-Founder of Nvoicepay, Nilay Banker, CEO of Inspyrus, and Chris Preston EVP & Chief Marketing Officer at Inspyrus to discuss the companies’ recent partnership to streamline invoice processing through to payment and reconciliation. We discussed some of the reasoning behind the new partnership [...]
May 3, 2018
Philip Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
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
One of the more important jobs of the accounts payable professional is keeping up with what is happening in the industry at large. This is critical for a few reasons, including skills development and the hunt for new technologies, but is sometimes difficult to do. That is why, each week, the team at Payables Place [...]
July 6, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
AvidXchange and American MicroImaging, Inc. Form Strategic Partnership AvidXchange announced last week that it had inked a partnership agreement with Los Angeles-based American MicroImaging (AMI), a document capture and management solution provider. The partnership deal will include joint marketing efforts, which are designed to showcase the benefits of using the solutions together. Customers of both [...]
June 19, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
The accounts payable world became a little more consolidated this week, with AvidXchange making its second acquisition in less than a year. Also this past week, NACHA announced the approval of a new proposal for same-day payments and Corcentric inked a partnership deal with Nvoicepay. Read on to find out more about all the important [...]
May 21, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, when thousands of people will proclaim their love to a special someone. The statistics are impressive for the holiday, with the average consumer spending $116.21 on the day, and about $13 billion spend on the holiday in the United States. That’s some impressive numbers, so it’s no wonder that many companies [...]
February 13, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
News in the payables world hasn’t exactly been in short supply lately. This week, there’s some good news about sustainability and business travel as well as new developments in the world of captive finance. Read on to find out more. HospitalityNet: Sustainable Business Travel on the Rise in Europe A recent Global Business Travel Association [...]
February 3, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
There are few solution providers that offer a full end-to-end accounts payable automation solution that includes receiving and processing invoices as well as payment functionality. As a result, the ePayables (Ardent’s term for AP Automation) solution provider marketplace remains fragmented with providers that offer either invoice processing or payment functionality. It’s the rare provider that offers [...]
January 26, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
For about a decade, the analysts at Ardent Partners have been researching and benchmarking technologies, processes, and performance within accounts payable including electronic or B2B payments. This is an area that has seen significant innovation in the last few years and it is clear that it is an area that will continue to see significant [...]
January 8, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Solutions
[Editor’s Note: Today, the second day of 2015, we wrap up our best of 2014 series with our look at the U.S. government’s SupplierPay pledge, which originally appeared on August 25.] On July 11, President Obama announced the SupplierPay pledge. Based on the federal government’s QuickPay initiative, which is designed to pay small federal suppliers more quickly, the [...]
January 2, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News