Technology

(Publisher’s note: Our challenge to each reader is to pick and view one great CFO / CPO / Leadership session today. If you do, we bet you can’t just stop at one!)  Our inaugural CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series brought more than 2000 procurement, finance, and HR professionals together around the topics that matter to business leaders [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Jae Jin Kim, Vice President of the Korean Institute [...]

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 [...]

Ardent Partners conducts one major accounts payable-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey (click here), you have an opportunity to help advance the collective knowledge of the entire “AP” profession AND get a full view into the current “State of Accounts Payable” when the report publishes. AP automation [...]

Automating Accounts Payable (“AP”) can deliver a compelling ROI if you focus on the right activities and have the right technology in place. But how do you know what to measure and what results are possible? In a new webinar, presented by MetaViewer, Ardent’s Research Director, Bob Cohen will discuss “Metrics Matter: Transforming Your AP [...]

As we discussed last week, AP’s reliance on paper has left many organizations struggling to adapt and overcome to our new reality of having to work from home while we shelter in place. If there is a silver lining for accounts payable, it’s the fact that technology exists to help organizations of all sizes solve [...]

[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 [...]