SMB

We’ve seen some great articles already this year from the Payables Place team, and the past two weeks hasn’t been any different. From a two-part series on mobility and complex spend, to a look ahead at business travel in 2015, the last two weeks served up hot, fresh news and research. Now check out the [...]

Financially knowledgeable SMBs understand the value of optimizing their cash and having a level of predictability around their cash inflow and outflow – this is where automating AP proves to be valuable for the SMB. Too often, SMBs operate using manual processes resulting in high operational costs, errors and delays and a general lack of [...]

Yes, I’m talking about the same Staples that you buy pens and copy paper from. About a month ago, Staples announced the launch of the Staples App Center, an innovative online marketplace for cloud-based business applications. The App Center makes it easy for small businesses to purchase and manage business apps all in one place. [...]

Last week, Tradeshift made a big splash in the business network pond with the announcement of a strategic partnership that involved a $10 million investment from Inuit. Intuit is the software company responsible for QuickBooks, one of the most widely used SMB accounting software products with approximately 5 million customers. Tradeshift is an eInvoicing provider [...]

Today’s article is a brief snippet of a report that Ardent Partners completed for Concur entitled –The SMB of the Future: Start Fast, Then Accelerate For an entire generation, technology has had an extraordinary impact on the lives of countless millions in the home and office. At home, technology and access to the internet have [...]

Today I’m going to re-visit the SMB market, which I’ve talk about before here. This segment of the market presents an extraordinary opportunity to relieve SMB’s of their paper-based (or excel-based) manual processes of getting paid, making payments and managing cash and introduce them to cloud-based automation that is affordable and built for them. We [...]

Most people know Concur as a leading provider of travel and expense management solutions. However, for some time now, they have been offering a solution that allows clients to manage inbound invoices and pay them. The offering includes eInvoicing capabilities, scan and capture services, a self-service supplier portal and payment processing and execution. Now, all [...]

According to the US Small Business Administration, in 2009 (the latest available data) there were about 27.5 million small businesses in the U.S, approximately 6 million of which have employees with the remainder being sole proprietorships. It is safe to assume that a significant chunk of small to mid-sized businesses (SMB’s) suffer from highly manual [...]