Technology

I have the pleasure of welcoming a “Payables Guest” today, Lynn Heitman, Senior Product and Marketing Officer, U.S. Bank Corporate Payment Systems. Heitman’s career in the payments industry spans 24 years beginning with the management of some of the first Affinity credit card programs in the 1980s and since then has worked in several areas of [...]

Continuing with Ardent Partners’ ePayables Solution Spotlight series, here is the latest one that focuses on the ePayment market and a solution from American Express – PAYVE (access the full report here). The report contains recent market research around electronic payments as well as insights into the technologies and payment mechanisms that are used to [...]

Today’s article is a brief snippet of a report that Ardent Partners completed for Concur entitled –The SMB of the Future: Start Fast, Then Accelerate For an entire generation, technology has had an extraordinary impact on the lives of countless millions in the home and office. At home, technology and access to the internet have [...]

Although ADP is best known for providing payroll services, the company is playing an increasing role in the ePayables space with the ADP Procure-to-Pay (P2P) solutions. ADP has been in this space since January of 2010 through its acquisition of DO2 technologies, a provider of electronic invoicing solutions that was well-established in the oil and [...]

Today, I’m going to provide a brief summary of a Solution Spotlight report that Ardent Partners recently completed on the U.S. Bank EIPP solution (the complete report can be found here). Just to recap from a previous post, the ePayables Solution Spotlight report helps readers better understand a specific category of automation within AP (in [...]

On Oct 15, 2012 Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY) announced that its B2B settlement network, Paymode-X, surpassed 200,000 members that are actively exchanging electronic payment (ePayment) and remittance data. In addition to this, the company announced that Paymode-X has now expanded payment capabilities to support 23 currencies spanning more than 30 countries. The network had first [...]

Today I’m going to re-visit the SMB market, which I’ve talk about before here. This segment of the market presents an extraordinary opportunity to relieve SMB’s of their paper-based (or excel-based) manual processes of getting paid, making payments and managing cash and introduce them to cloud-based automation that is affordable and built for them. We [...]

In my several years as an analyst in this space, it has always been apparent to me that the AP automation solution landscape is quite crowded and confusing with multiple providers offering different and varied capabilities to automate all or part of the AP process, making it that much more difficult for enterprises to select [...]

Undeniably, the social network has forever changed and continues to change the manner in which people communicate, interact, collaborate and share information with their network of family, friends, co-workers, acquaintances, people with similar interests, etc. That’s in our personal lives, but how have social networking concepts impacted the way commerce is conducted and how will [...]

Some years ago, the data capture market consisted of companies such as Kofax, Brainware, Captaris, DataCap, and Captiva, among others. Some of the companies in the space were sizable, many were small, but almost all were independent companies focused specifically on data capture. The current market has changed quite a bit with many of the [...]