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The Accounts Payable (AP) profession has been around for a long time and is a vital component of any organization. AP professionals are responsible for ensuring that all invoices and bills are paid on time, and that the company’s financial records are accurate and up-to-date. However, many people underestimate the value of the AP profession [...]

(Editors Note: This article by John Yuva, Director of Research Operations at Ardent Partners, first appeared January 5th on our sister site – The Future of Work Exchange) When we refer to the Future of Work, we’re often talking about a better overall workforce experience. Certainly, a workplace that considers employee purpose, well-being, and work/life balance. [...]

Editors Note: This article by John Yuva,  Director of Research Operations at Ardent Partners, first appeared on October 27th on The Future of Work Exchange   What does the concept of “team” mean for today’s remote and hybrid enterprises? Many workplaces now operate with dispersed teams. With the criticality of teamwork to execute company initiatives [...]

  Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of ePayables  automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Nick Sprau, Co-CEO at Metafile  Bob Cohen: Welcome Nick and [...]

Warren Buffet, the legendary investor once said “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” What does this have to do with Accounts Payable? Everything. Now is the perfect time to look forward and plan what you want AP to look like tomorrow and into the future. Developing [...]

Across the globe, many countries have begun (or are about to begin) the process of “phased re-openings” of their economies, only three months after the COVID-19 pandemic began. In the United States, some regions have been “open” (albeit in highly-restrictive forms) for several weeks, while states and cities that were hardest-hit (such as New York [...]

Ardent Partner’s 2020 State of ePayables Survey is Now Open All Respondents Will Receive the Study When it Publishes in May (Click Here) Now in its 15th year, Ardent Partners annual ‘State of ePayables’ market research survey seeks to provide an industry-wide view into what is happening in the world of accounts payable today by [...]

Bottomline Technologies (Nasdaq:EPAY), the cloud-based business payment, invoice, and digital banking solution provider, has announced an initiative to help the nation’s banks provide assistance and relief to small businesses adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The New Hampshire-based provider will provide banks with a simplified SBA loan application platform to originate online loan applications under the “Paycheck [...]

Ardent Partners takes the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic with the utmost seriousness. Please click here to read our approach in these uncertain times. Right now we are all facing something unprecedented and unplanned for, and recent events have left many Accounts Payable (“AP”) departments scrambling to adjust and adapt. Mandatory closing of non-essential businesses, and workers [...]

We at Ardent Partners take the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic with the utmost seriousness. Accordingly, we have taken organizational precautions to minimize the risk of staff infection and the spread of the virus in our communities, including a 100% virtual work order and a ban on all work travel, including local, until further notice. [...]