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AP’s Plan for 2019: Boost the Insights, Lose the Paper

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 1, 2019Process, Research

[Editor’s Note: You can download The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence Report by clicking here.] A modern AP operation can differentiate itself from historical iterations by executing…

Monday First Thing: Data Mining and Data Scientists in AP? YES!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 24, 2019Process, Research

A few years ago the mere mention of data mining and data scientists in the same sentence as Accounts Payable would probably have gotten you puzzled and even concerned looks…

Monday First Thing: The 2019 State of ePayables Market Research Report is Now Available!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 10, 2019Process, Research, Technology

[Editor’s Note: You can download The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence Report by clicking here.] I am excited to announce the publication of Ardent Partners’ 14th annual State…

The Future of Work and Accounts Payable – It’s ‘GO’ Time

By Philip Bartolini June 3, 2019Process, ResearchNo Comments

Many of the major shifts in the business world over the past decade revolved around the idea that businesses needed to “do more with less.” A decade removed from an…

Why Supplier Enablement Programs Matter

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team May 20, 2019Best Practices, Process

Why do some supplier eInvoicing and payment initiatives succeed while others fail? The answer usually comes down to supplier enablement. Adoption is key for any program to succeed and those…

What are Virtual Cards?

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team May 13, 2019Process, Solutions

Over the past couple of months I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with many AP professionals at solution provider user conferences, industry trade shows, and via inbound inquiries to Ardent…

The Metrics that Matter in 2019

By Andrew Bartolini May 3, 2019Process, Research, Technology

I hope that even casual readers of our sites know that my firm, Ardent Partners, has spent that past decade performing extensive market research in the areas of sourcing/procurement, accounts payable/payments,…

Final Thoughts on Corporate Culture and Technology Adoption

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 22, 2019Best Practices, Process, Technology

Two companies, a similar task, different corporate cultures, and diametrically opposite results. Over the past few weeks, we presented a case study on the specific experiences of two rival companies…

The Future of eInvoicing, eFactoring, and Blockchain in Africa

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 19, 2019Best Practices, Process, Solutions

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Mario Fernández, CEO at Gosocket about the ‘Kenyan Project’ in Africa. Mario will be giving a session on this topic on May…

Corporate Culture and its Impact on Technology Adoption – Results

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 15, 2019Best Practices, Process, Technology

According to authors P. Montana and B. Charnov (in the 2008 edition of their book, Management) by way of Wikipedia, Corporate culture is defined as the “total sum of the values, customs, traditions, and…