What Does the Future Hold for AP Automation?
For many enterprises, the accounts payable (AP) function is one of the last bastions of manual processes. Invoices in these organizations are still approved by hand, with paper checks sent…
Nipendo: A Not-So-Little Business Network with Big Dreams
Complexity is the name of the game in today’s globalized, interconnected business world. Who companies are connected to and how you communicate and collaborate matters more than ever. This means…
Basware Grows Operating Profit by 26.9% in Second Quarter; Hews to Lofty Goals
Basware (Helsinki: BAS1V) is having a good year. The eInvoicing provider announced their second-quarter results on July 10 (our sister site, CPO Rising, also covered this announcement), noting an increase…
eInvoicing Stats Every AP & Finance Leader Must See
Ardent Partners’ research over the past few years has shown that while the average accounts payable department still lacks automation, executive focus, and general alignment with the enterprise, leading enterprises…
eInvoicing – Creating Value for Suppliers
In the earlier post (The Rise of the B2B Network and B2B Payments) we talked about the increasing need for eInvoicing providers to create value for suppliers as well as…
Trending in 2014: Supply Chain Finance
In a recent article, I noted Supply Chain Finance (SCF) as being one of the top trends for 2014 (read more here). This article offers a more detailed discussion of…
The Dynamic Trio – Taulia
In this series I wanted to focus on a few of the ‘newer’ technology providers in this space and their solutions around dynamic discounting. Although providers such as Ariba and…
ePayables Solution Spotlight on Iron Mountain
Today’s article will focus on a specific solution provider – Iron Mountain. Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) is a storage and information management solution and service provider. The company has approximately 60…
Who Said eInvoicing Costs less?
Actually, the market did. As you have already seen in other articles (such as this one or this one), Ardent Partners recently completed a fairly robust study on the accounts…
AP Technology Part 2: eInvoicing & Networks
Based on research from Ardent’s latest report – ePayables 2013: AP’s New Dawn eInvoicing solutions remove paper from the AP process by creating invoices electronically and maintaining that format through…