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  Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) 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 [...]

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’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) 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 ePayables Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Jeffrey Moore, Partner and CSO of Artsyl Technologies, Inc. [...]

Continuity, Resilience, and Rising to the Challenge Editor’s Note: Join us next Tuesday, May 19 at 11am ET for a complimentary webinar presentation based on our upcoming flagship market research report “The State of ePayables 2020” sponsored by APEX Analytix (click here to register). The COVID-19 pandemic has forced enterprises across the globe to not [...]

In Ardent Partners’ AP Metrics that Matter in 2020, our research indicated 55% of B2B payments were made electronically last year. The positive lining here is the percentage of B2B payments made electronically has been creeping up slowly over the last decade. Unfortunately, besides inertia, there is little sound business reason for North American businesses [...]

Today we continue our look at solving AP’s reliance on paper by looking at the second phase of the process: Invoice processing. The AP department is one of the last groups within many enterprises to operate using what are largely or fully-manual processes. These manually-intensive processes are more costly and take significantly more time to [...]

Editor’s Note: Join Bob Cohen on a new webinar, Wednesday April 29th at 2 PM ET, entitled The Profound Impact of AP Automation on Cash, Productivity, and Risk, in the “New Normal” World (click to register) AP automation has never been more relevant and necessary than it is right now. Recent events have shown us [...]

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners’ new webinar, Maximizing Spend Management with AP Automation and Data, is scheduled for this Thursday, April 9th. Click here to register.] Ardent Partners research has shown that the benefits of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation and data can extend well beyond process and efficiency improvements gained from eliminating paper and manual, labor-intensive [...]

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.] The success of any spend management, sourcing or financial management program largely depends on the enterprise’s ability to set proper goals, identify core business objectives and, most importantly, build an effective means of [...]