Andrew Bartolini, Author at Payables Place

Lexmark International Acquires Brainware

By Andrew Bartolini March 17, 2012NewsNo Comments

On March 5th, 2012, Lexmark International announced the acquisition of Brainware for $148 million; the company will join a Lexmark subsidiary, Perceptive Software. Perceptive is a provider of enterprise content…

Basware’s New Alusta Platform

By Andrew Bartolini March 14, 2012News1 Comment

On February 29th, 2012 Basware introduced its new cloud-based platform called Alusta (meaning ‘platform’ in Finnish) to the market. Basware was already one of the major providers of eInvoicing and…

US Treasury Getting Rid of Paper

By Andrew Bartolini February 28, 2012OtherNo Comments

In July of 2011, the US Department of Treasury announced that it is mandating that all Treasury Bureaus implement the Internet Payment Platform (IPP) by the end of 2012 and…

Mobile Capture for AP – It’s Real

By Andrew Bartolini February 15, 2012News1 Comment

In January of 2012, Kofax introduced Kofax Mobile Capture. This came approximately a month after Kofax announced a minority investment ($500K) in MobiFlex Inc, a mobile app specialist. Kofax Mobile…

Basware Expands Its Open Network with German Acquisition

By Andrew Bartolini February 2, 2012News1 Comment

On January 17, 2012, Basware kicked off the New Year by announcing that it had acquired First Businesspost GmbH (“1stbp”)for €12.2 million, which includes assumption of the company’s debt (€…

Voulez-Vous eInvoice? Ariba Buys b-process

By Andrew Bartolini January 5, 2012NewsNo Comments

Ariba (NASDAQ:ARBA), a cloud-based provider of collaborative commerce solutions, announced the acquisition of b-process in October 2011. The acquisition, for approximately €35 million in cash, allows Ariba to further expand…