Andrew Bartolini, Author at Payables Place

MasterCard and Basware – Bringing to Market a New B2B Payment Capability

By Andrew Bartolini October 1, 2013NewsNo Comments

Last week, MasterCard one of the largest payment networks in the world and Basware, a provider of procure-to-pay (P2P) and eInvoicing solutions announced a strategic partnership to bring to market…

Who Said eInvoicing Costs less?

By Andrew Bartolini September 24, 2013ResearchNo Comments

Actually, the market did. As you have already seen in other articles (such as this one or this one), Ardent Partners recently completed a fairly robust study on the accounts…

Basware & BravoSolution Bring Procurement and AP Together

By Andrew Bartolini September 17, 2013NewsNo Comments

Earlier this morning, Basware announced a new global partnership with BravoSolution. Our team was briefed yesterday on the details of the partnership by the Basware team. As many of our…

A Working Capital Market – The Only One of its Kind

By Andrew Bartolini September 9, 2013News, SolutionsNo Comments

Optimizing working capital has been discussed a lot recently in the AP and P2P space and has often been promoted or marketed as a benefit to automating the invoice and…

AP Technology Part 3: Payments

By Andrew Bartolini August 19, 2013ResearchNo Comments

The last phase of the AP process is the scheduling, processing and execution of an invoice payment. In the US, paper checks are still dominant as a payment format; however,…

AP Technology Part 2: eInvoicing & Networks

By Andrew Bartolini August 15, 2013ProcessNo Comments

Based on research from Ardent’s latest report – ePayables 2013: AP’s New Dawn eInvoicing solutions remove paper from the AP process by creating invoices electronically and maintaining that format through…

AP Technology Part 1: Scan, Capture & Workflow

By Andrew Bartolini August 13, 2013ResearchNo Comments

Based on research from Ardent’s latest report – ePayables 2013: AP’s New Dawn The primary role of these solutions/services is to take paper-based documents and transform the data that lies…

The Organizational Structure of AP

By Andrew Bartolini August 7, 2013ResearchNo Comments

Several years ago, the structure of accounts payable groups began to shift to more centralized models. In 2013, centralization remains the preferred operating model with more than 80% of all…

Advancing B2B Connectivity via a Shared Platform

By Andrew Bartolini August 1, 2013ResearchNo Comments

Download the full report here For most enterprises, conducting business today means managing an increasingly complex set of relationships with the ‘Extended Enterprise,” an ecosystem which has grown to include…

Upcoming Webinar: SMBs – Leveraging Automation to Improve Cash Management

By Andrew Bartolini July 31, 2013Event, ResearchNo Comments

Financially knowledgeable SMBs understand the value of optimizing their cash and having a level of predictability around their cash inflow and outflow - this is where automating AP proves to…