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For much of its history, the Accounts Payable (AP) function has processed invoices through a high-touch, mostly manual workflow. This has shifted in recent years with the rise of electronic invoicing (eInvoicing) solutions, but many AP departments, especially within small and medium-sized enterprises, still operate with a mostly manual invoice process. The fact remains that [...]

Last week on our journey through Ardent Partners’ Accounts Payable Metrics that Matter in 2019 (click to download) we took a look at some of the top challenges plaguing AP. This week I wanted to turn the tables and look at some of the keys to success. Not surprisingly, people, aka your employees, are extremely [...]

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 [...]

Ardent Partners Launches Technology Evaluation Series New Report Addresses the Accounts Payable Solutions Market BOSTON, MA, March 5, 2019 — Ardent Partners, a leading research and advisory firm, announced today that its new ePayables Technology Advisor report, which evaluates the accounts payable (AP) solutions marketplace, is now available. The 2019 ePayables Technology Advisor is the market-leading [...]

A couple of weeks ago, we announced the availability of our annual eBook, “Ardent Partners’ AP Metrics that Matter in 2019” (click to download) that I co-authored with Andrew Bartolini. This eBook presents a comprehensive, industry-wide view into what is happening in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) today, by drawing on the experience, performance, [...]

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 [...]

Basware today announced that it has terminated discussions with Tradeshift in relation to a possible offer to acquire all shares in Basware. These two leaders in the Procure-to-Pay (“P2P”) space had been in discussions for months about a possible union between the two organizations. When asked about today’s news Basware’s CEO, Vesa Tykkyläinen, told Ardent [...]

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, [...]

With today’s article, we are excited to announce the publication of Ardent’s compilation eBook, “Ardent Partners’ AP Metrics that Matter in 2019”, which is available for download here. Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key data points from this eBook. The emergence of innovative technologies in recent years has the potential [...]

What exactly is Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially as it relates to the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) and Finance? Today, AI seems to be a ‘catch-all’ term used to lump together so many different things having to do with automation. In far too many conversations I’ve had, and in articles I’ve read, Robotic Process Automation [...]