Ardent Partners Analyst Team, Author at Payables Place

Monday First Thing: The Change in the ePayables Buying Process Over Time

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 30, 2018Best Practices, Process

The way enterprises do business has changed significantly over the past 15 years and these shifts are reflected in the way ePayables and P2P solution providers go to market today.…

Monday First Thing: A Conversation with Andre Hoddevik, Secretary General for OpenPEPPOL

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 23, 2018Event, News, Solutions

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Andre Hoddevik, the Secretary General for OpenPEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement Online), a European-based, non-profit international association whose purpose is to enable European…

The Corcentric Brand Unification: Setting a Strategy for Future Growth

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 18, 2018News, Solutions, Technology

A few weeks ago, Corcentric announced that they were combining business operations with its parent company, AmeriQuest Business Services, under the Corcentric company name (read Ardent's initial coverage of the…

Monday First Thing: Supply Chain Finance – Creating a Win-Win Situation for Buyers and Suppliers

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 9, 2018Best Practices, Process, Research, Technology

Supply Chain Finance (SCF) is something that we are being asked about much more today than we have in the past. Many of the practitioners we speak with have heard…

AvidXchange Expands P2P Offering with Acquisition of Ariett

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 4, 2018News, Solutions, Technology

AvidXchange recently announced that the first product integration of its November, 2017 acquisition of Ariett is now complete. Ardent Partners’ ePayables team (Bob Cohen and Philip Bartolini), recently caught up…

TOP STRATEGIES FOR P2P SUCCESS

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 2, 2018Best Practices, Process, Technology

Last week I presented on a webinar with Zycus entitled ‘Design Thinking: Top Strategies for P2P Success’. The webinar contained some excellent practical and useful information that I thought would…

Esker: Growing the P2P Suite in 2018 and Beyond

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 28, 2018Process, Solutions

Editor’s Note: The Payables Team at Ardent Partners recently met with Catherine Dupuy-Holdich, Gina Leranth, and Justin Cunningham from Esker to get an update and briefing on its P2P solutions…

AP Automation: Beyond Transactional Efficiency

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 26, 2018Best Practices, Process, Research

Throughout my career, I’ve worked with hundreds of companies looking to automate their Accounts Payable operations. Typically, the organizations are drowning in paper, suffering from manual, time-consuming, costly, error-prone processes…

Monday First Thing: Thoughts from SAP Concur Fusion: Delivering Value to Customers, Growth Through the Partner Ecosystem, and Analytics Front and Center

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 19, 2018Event, Solutions, Technology

After spending the better part of last week in Las Vegas at SAP Ariba Live, this week I headed to the beautiful Pacific Northwest to attend the SAP Concur Fusion…

Oildex: AP Automation For the Oil and Gas Industry

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 14, 2018Process, Solutions, Technology

Editors Note: Members of the Ardent ePayables Team (Bob & Phil) recently took a briefing with Mike Donaldson, the Chief Marketing Officer at Oildex to discuss three of their five…