In 2020, the accounts payable (“AP”) profession continues to gain momentum and impact business operations and results in an increasingly strategic way. The global uncertainty that pervades today’s market indicates the very real threat of a deep economic downturn. In response, the CFO’s new “hierarchy of needs” has placed a laser focus on business continuity [...]
July 9, 2020
Philip Bartolini
Event, Research, Solutions, Webinar
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 [...]
May 4, 2020
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Process, Solutions, Technology
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, when thousands of people will proclaim their love to a special someone. The statistics are impressive for the holiday, with the average consumer spending $116.21 on the day, and about $13 billion spend on the holiday in the United States. That’s some impressive numbers, so it’s no wonder that many companies [...]
February 13, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
There are few solution providers that offer a full end-to-end accounts payable automation solution that includes receiving and processing invoices as well as payment functionality. As a result, the ePayables (Ardent’s term for AP Automation) solution provider marketplace remains fragmented with providers that offer either invoice processing or payment functionality. It’s the rare provider that offers [...]
January 26, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology