PUBLISHER: Andrew Bartolini
Founder & Chief Research Officer, Ardent Partners
Andrew Bartolini is one of the accounts payable industry’s longest-tenured and most influential independent analysts. For 21 years, he has studied how AP departments operate, perform, adopt technology, and create value for the enterprise. His research has helped establish many of the benchmarks, performance standards, and technology evaluation criteria used by AP and finance leaders today.
As the Founder and Chief Research Officer of Ardent Partners, Andrew leads the firm’s accounts payable research and advisory practice. He is the principal author of Ardent’s AP Technology Advisor, AP Metrics That Matter, and annual State of AP research. Together, these programs provide the market with independent evaluations of AP automation providers, definitive operational benchmarks, and a fact-based view of the priorities and challenges shaping the function.
Andrew has produced more than 1,200 AP-related research reports, articles, and presentations over the course of his career. This body of work spans the full AP agenda, including invoice processing, automation, B2B payments, supplier enablement, fraud prevention, working capital, procure-to-pay operations, performance management, and AI.
Through Ardent’s research, webinar series, advisory work, and Payables Place, Andrew has helped move the industry’s discussion beyond transaction processing and cost reduction. His work has consistently advanced the view of AP as a strategic finance operation with an important role in cash management, supplier relationships, risk management, intelligence, and enterprise performance.
Trusted by AP executives, CFOs, technology providers, and investors, Andrew brings an unusually comprehensive perspective to the market. His analysis combines decades of primary research with direct experience developing, implementing, and using enterprise technology. That combination enables him to evaluate both how solutions perform and whether they address the operational realities and business priorities of modern AP departments.
AP Market Impact
- 21 years of AP research, tracking the function’s evolution through digitization, automation, intelligent operations, and AI
- Principal author of Ardent Partners’ AP Technology Advisor, providing independent evaluations of the leading AP automation and payments platforms
- Creator and publisher of AP Metrics That Matter, which gives AP and finance teams authoritative benchmarks for evaluating performance
- Leader of Ardent’s annual State of AP research, documenting the priorities, challenges, capabilities, and future plans of AP organizations
- More than 1,200 AP reports, articles, and presentations covering performance, strategy, technology, innovation, and best practices
- Two decades of primary market research and enterprise benchmarking, providing a depth and continuity of insight that is rare in the AP industry
- Publisher of Payables Place, a research-driven destination for AP, finance, and procure-to-pay leaders
- Leader of the Ardent Partners AP Webinar Series, bringing research, practitioners, and technology leaders together to address the industry’s most important issues
- Independent advisor to AP and finance executives, technology providers, and investors
- Early and sustained coverage of the forces redefining AP, including ePayables, B2B payments, fraud, supplier management, working capital, and AI
You can learn more about Andrew’s background and connect with him on LinkedIn, or send him a message.
Other Site Contributors
John Yuva, Ardent’s Research Director is a major site contributor.
Christopher J. Dwyer is SVP of Research at Ardent Partners and Managing Director of The Future of Work Exchange, leading websites focused on the future of work and supply management. Chris is a regular contributor to Payables Place and CPO Rising.