Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Tomika Russell, President of Symbeo. Ardent Partners: Welcome Tomika [...]
February 1, 2023
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
News, 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 in business spend management, entered into an agreement to be acquired by Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm. Valued at $8.0 billion, Coupa will [...]
December 14, 2022
Andrew Bartolini
News, Technology
Editors Note: This article by John Yuva, Director of Research Operations at Ardent Partners, first appeared on November 11th on CPORISING.COM As Chief Procurement Officers (“CPOs”) and procurement practitioners move into the year ahead, they have the need and the capability for advanced technology solutions to automate and link the source-to-settle process – upstream, strategic sourcing and [...]
November 14, 2022
John Yuva
Best Practices, Technology
Editors Note: This article by John Yuva, Director of Research Operations at Ardent Partners, first appeared on October 27th on The Future of Work Exchange What does the concept of “team” mean for today’s remote and hybrid enterprises? Many workplaces now operate with dispersed teams. With the criticality of teamwork to execute company initiatives [...]
October 31, 2022
John Yuva
Best Practices, Other, Technology
Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of ePayables automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Tiago Silva, Global Key Account Manager, Pagero. Ardent Partners: Welcome Tiago and [...]
September 22, 2022
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Event, Technology
Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of ePayables automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Jorge Tracana, Tax Manager, TAP Air Portugal. Ardent Partners: Welcome Jorge [...]
September 19, 2022
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Event, News, Technology
Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of ePayables automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Ivo Moszynski, Chair of FeRD (German Forum for Electronic Invoicing). Ardent [...]
September 14, 2022
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Event, Research, Technology
Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Enrico Liverani, Chief Consulting & Key Account Director, [...]
September 12, 2022
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Event, 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 is especially true in light of the challenges brought on by the pandemic, which made paper-based processes unworkable with the work-from-home mandates that most employers [...]
August 15, 2022
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Research, Technology
Unfortunately, in addition to the traditional, primarily tactical- related challenges facing AP year after year that I discussed a couple of weeks ago, Ardent Partners believes there are several new risks on the horizon that could negatively impact AP performance in 2022 and beyond. AP leadership needs to be aware of these threats, monitor them, [...]
August 8, 2022
Christopher Dwyer
Research, Technology