[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its AP-themed report, “Accounts Payable 2022: Big Trends and Predictions”. Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key discussion points from the report. Prediction #5: AP Becomes an Intelligence Hub AP sits on a veritable goldmine of data due to its direct access to [...]
March 7, 2022
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, News, Research, Technology
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to readers of our network of sites, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and events. To commemorate the occasion, we are going to reflect on the firm’s first decade by presenting a “throwback” series that will include a blend of top [...]
July 31, 2019
Philip Bartolini
Best Practices, Process
Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, P2P, and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable, B2B Payments, or Spend Management solution provider and you have news to share with us, please drop us a note at editor at cporising dot [...]
March 1, 2019
Philip Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
Much has been in the news lately about what happens when two groups cannot, or will not work with one another to solve (major) pressing issues. Most of us are familiar with the saying “Teamwork makes the dream work” by John C. Maxwell, internationally recognized leadership expert, coach, and author. In business, as in politics, [...]
January 14, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Research
Every now and then we all need to take a step back and thank those around us for helping us on both a personal and professional level. Accounts Payable (“AP”) interacts with many groups that are critical to its’ ultimate success. And as AP leaders head back to the office from what was hopefully an [...]
November 26, 2018
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
News, Process
Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2017: The Convergence of Cash, Suppliers, and Intelligence. Today’s article is part of new four-part series focused on how the role of the Accounts Payable professional has changed over the last 15 years. If you would like to get the full report, it is [...]
August 2, 2017
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Process, Research
Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2017: The Convergence of Cash, Suppliers, and Intelligence. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the report’s key findings. If you would like to get the full report, it is available for download here (registration required). Historically, the Accounts Payable (“AP”) [...]
July 26, 2017
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Research
Accounts payable (“AP”) and treasury can and should be natural partners within the average enterprise. AP manages a significant source of cash outflows in the form of supplier payments, and treasury is tasked with managing the organization’s cash position and liquidity risk. On this point, the duties of treasury and AP neatly intersect, which makes [...]
June 16, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Research, Technology
Accounts payable (“AP”) in the modern age has the potential to become a hub of financial and operational intelligence for the greater enterprise, pushing this once back-office function into new strategic territory. Consider that every transaction that generates an invoice passes through the AP process at some point or other, as well as any supplier [...]
The benefits of B2B payment automation are clear, but accounts payable (“AP”) teams often struggle to achieve any significant level of process transformation because of a combination of limited resources and a relatively low position in the enterprise. This is where treasury, a direct beneficiary of B2B payment automation, can become tremendously helpful in advocating [...]
April 20, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Event