Andrew Bartolini, Author at Payables Place

Ardent Partners Launches 2023 ePayables Technology Advisor Report

By Andrew Bartolini April 11, 2023Other

New Report Addresses the ePayables Technology Landscape BOSTON, MA, April 11, 2023 — Ardent Partners, a leading research and advisory firm, announced today that its new ePayables Technology Advisor report, which…

AP Can Be a Career Launching Pad

By Andrew Bartolini March 30, 2023Best Practices, Other, Process, Technology

The Accounts Payable (AP) profession has been around for a long time and is a vital component of any organization. AP professionals are responsible for ensuring that all invoices and…

Ardent Analysis: Coupa Board Accepts Thoma Bravo $8B Bid to be Taken Private

By Andrew Bartolini December 14, 2022News, Technology

Posted by Andrew Bartolini & John Yuva It may be December, but that doesn’t mean merger and acquisition activity has ceased. This week, news broke that Coupa Software, a leader…

The Macro-Level Issues Impacting the CPO Right Now: B2B Payments Fraud

By Andrew Bartolini December 12, 2022Best Practices, Other, Process, Research

Editors Note: This article by Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer and Founder of Ardent Partners, first appeared December 6th on our sister site, CPORising Chief Procurement Officers face a myriad of supply…

ePayables Technology Adoption in 2022

By Andrew Bartolini August 15, 2022Best Practices, Research, Technology

Given recent trends toward improving business processes in a bid to increase efficiencies and drive down costs, one wonders why more enterprises have not fully automated their AP processes. This…

Hurdles to AP Success in 2022

By Andrew Bartolini August 1, 2022Other

Given their recent performance, many AP teams are destined for greater things, supported by the growing perception of the function as adding real value to the enterprise at large. However,…

Performance Is Reality

By Andrew Bartolini July 25, 2022Best Practices, Research, Technology

“Perception” has long been one of the biggest issues holding AP groups down within the organizational hierarchy of an enterprise. Perception acts as a lens through which reality is viewed,…

The New ‘Normal’ Workspace in Accounts Payable and P2P

By Andrew Bartolini July 19, 2022Best Practices, Other, Research

Now in year three, COVID-19 continues to persist, and its outlook for the remainder of 2022 remains unclear. However, it is clear that much of the pre-pandemic world has faded…

The P2P Blueprint for Success

By Andrew Bartolini October 20, 2021Best Practices, Process, Technology

A successful P2P project can start in many different areas and travel many different paths; but, before an enterprise begins its P2P journey, it should have a sense of where…

ePayables 2021: Best-in-Class Accounts Payable Performance

By Andrew Bartolini September 10, 2021Other

For the last twelve years, Ardent Partners has leveraged a unique framework to highlight the performance of top-tier or Best-in- Class organizations (versus all others) by analyzing a specific set…