SMB’s Becoming Tech Savvy with Invoicing and Payments
According to the US Small Business Administration, in 2009 (the latest available data) there were about 27.5 million small businesses in the U.S, approximately 6 million of which have employees…
AP’s New Motto – Not Broken, Needs Fixing
Last month, Ardent Partners completed its annual AP focused market research report – ePayables 2012: The State of The AP Market. This extensive piece of research, which took up most…
Webinar: The Hunt for Safe, Short-Term Cash Yield
The strategic value of AP & Dynamic Discounting in creating high yield, low risk investment opportunities. In today’s global economy the enterprise faces multiple areas of financial concern, from the…
Our View of the AP World
As this is the first article after yesterday's launch, I thought it best to start off by providing our view of the accounts payable world. At Ardent, we use the…
Opening Day – Welcome to Payables Place
Let the games begin! Welcome to Payables Place, the site where the research team at Ardent Partners will share its research, analysis, and ideas on the world of accounts payable…
Transforming AP? Start with a Solid Business Case
In my effort to cover AP (and P2P) processes, strategies and technologies one of the first projects at Ardent was to create the ePayables SMARTset. The purpose being, to help…
Iron Mountain Joins the AP Automation Game
With IFO's Fusion Conference underway in Nashville, I was sure that there would be some newsworthy activity and I was not wrong. On May 14th, Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) the information…
Lexmark International Acquires Brainware
On March 5th, 2012, Lexmark International announced the acquisition of Brainware for $148 million; the company will join a Lexmark subsidiary, Perceptive Software. Perceptive is a provider of enterprise content…
Basware’s New Alusta Platform
On February 29th, 2012 Basware introduced its new cloud-based platform called Alusta (meaning ‘platform’ in Finnish) to the market. Basware was already one of the major providers of eInvoicing and…
US Treasury Getting Rid of Paper
In July of 2011, the US Department of Treasury announced that it is mandating that all Treasury Bureaus implement the Internet Payment Platform (IPP) by the end of 2012 and…