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Monday First Thing: The State of ePayables 2019 – Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 17, 2019Best Practices, Research

In 2019, businesses and consumers are now fully engulfed by technology and the data it both creates and captures. The same holds true for accounts payable (“AP”) departments across the…

Best of 2018: What’s Really Changed in AP Over the Last 10 Years? A Ton, That’s What!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team December 26, 2018Process, Research, Technology

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “Best of” 2018 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. …

The Dog Days of Summer

By Andrew Bartolini August 27, 2018Best Practices, Other

[Publisher's note: Today, we borrow the tradition begun 9 years ago at our sister site CPO Rising to bring you “The Dog Days of Summer” article in August, so we…

The State of ePayables 2018: What Makes The Best AP Departments Better?

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 23, 2018Best Practices, Process, Research

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the…

Monday First Thing: What’s Really Changed in AP Over the Last 10 Years? A Ton, That’s What!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team February 19, 2018Process, Research, Technology

It is sometimes easy to forget that when you work in an industry that delivers regular incremental innovation, that the aggregate steps taken forward can be quite significant. This is…

The Network Effect: How B2B Networks Can Impact Accounts Payable (Webinar)

By Andrew Bartolini February 2, 2016Event, Solutions, Technology

The speed of business continues to accelerate while markets expand, shift, merge, and emerge at a pace never seen before. The result is a fast-moving and highly-competitive global marketplace that…

Best of 2015: How Will Business Networks Transform Talent Engagement?

By Christopher Dwyer January 6, 2016Best Practices, Solutions

Editor's Note: As 2015 draws to a close, it is the time of year when we revisit some of our best articles from the past year. Over the next week, the…

Best of 2015: Concur Fusion and Business Network Evolution

By Christopher Dwyer January 4, 2016Best Practices, Event, Solutions, Technology

Editor's Note: As 2015 draws to a close, it is the time of year when we revisit some of our best articles from the past year. Over the next week, the…

AribaLIVE 2015: Looking to the Future of Business Commerce

By Andrew Bartolini June 23, 2015Event, Solutions, Technology

[Publisher's Note: Today’s article is an analysis of two similar but separate presentations delivered by Ariba executives at their user conferences this spring. The first was at AribaLIVE in Las…

AP Predictions & Business Networks: What You May Have Missed

By Andrew Bartolini June 1, 2015Research

Like normal, the analysts of Ardent Partners have taken a deep dive into accounts payable (AP) topics over the past two weeks. From the final part of our series looking…