Supplier Networks

Nipendo, the provider of a cloud-based P2P-focused platform and Integrate Financial, a new, non-bank finance and technology company announced a partnership to provide supply chain finance solutions to trading partners that leverage Nipendo’s platform. Ardent Partners was briefed on the announcement by Nipendo’s VP of Marketing, Eran Livneh and Integrate Financial’s CEO, Zalman Vitenson, and [...]

At the beginning of May I had the opportunity to meet with the Basware team and was briefed on the recent launch of Basware Analytics as well as some new and improved capabilities around Basware’s eProcurement solution. As many of you may know, Basware is a provider of eInvoicing and procure-to-pay (P2P) solutions, the company [...]

Last week, Tradeshift hosted one of its first public events in New York City. This intimate event was hosted and led by CEO Christian Lanng and brought together industry analysts like myself, journalists, bloggers, investors as well as a few customers. Christian began the day by sharing Tradeshift’s vision and his thoughts on the current [...]

On Oct 15, 2012 Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY) announced that its B2B settlement network, Paymode-X, surpassed 200,000 members that are actively exchanging electronic payment (ePayment) and remittance data. In addition to this, the company announced that Paymode-X has now expanded payment capabilities to support 23 currencies spanning more than 30 countries. The network had first [...]

Supplier networks have existed for many years and over the initial years slowly gained in popularity. Today, however, these networks are a quickly growing trend and an increasingly cost effective and efficient means to process business transactions and in some cases more (e.g., supply chain finance, supplier discovery). Research from Ardent Partners recent survey showed [...]

Undeniably, the social network has forever changed and continues to change the manner in which people communicate, interact, collaborate and share information with their network of family, friends, co-workers, acquaintances, people with similar interests, etc. That’s in our personal lives, but how have social networking concepts impacted the way commerce is conducted and how will [...]