B2B Payments 2015: The Emerging Business Value of Electronic Payments
Inertia takes many forms in the enterprise. One of the most subtle is hidden in the idea of always having done certain tasks a certain way. This is particularly true…
The Network Effect: How B2B Networks Can Impact Accounts Payable (Webinar)
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…
Onward and Upward: IBM Procurement Leverages an Ecosystem to Drive Value
IBM completed its acquisition of Emptoris in February 2012, ostensibly to bolster its Smarter Commerce solution suite. There have been significant changes for Emptoris in the intervening years, and 2015…
The State of the Chief Procurement Officer in 2016 (Hypothesis)
Editor's Note: Our annual CPO Rising survey is now open -- The data we collect from the survey will fuel our “CPO Rising 2016” research report that will publish in March…
BravoSolution: Setting Its Sights on 2016 with Source-to-Settle Innovation
Recently, the analyst team at Ardent Partners sat down with BravoSolution’s President and CEO, Jim Wetekamp, Vice President of Global Marketing, Andrea Brody, and Chief Strategy Officer, Florian Winterstein, for…
Accounts Payable Predictions for 2016: Greater Collaboration, More Automation
Editor’s Note: The evolving nature of accounts payable and the procure-to-pay process certainly impacts the procurement function, especially as this industry continues to expand and grow. Don’t forget to register for Ardent’s…
Ardent’s Chief Research Officer Discusses New State of B2B Payments Report (Video)
Ardent Partners' Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini discusses Ardent's latest report "The State of B2B Payments: Emerging Business Value," an annual study that presents a definitive look at the B2B payment…
How to Transform Procurement in Five Steps – Step Five: Internal Stakeholder Engagement
Editor’s Note: Procurement transformation will be a big topic at Ardent Partners’ CPO Rising 2016 executive symposium this spring. Join us in Boston on March 29-30 for what is shaping…
B2B Payments 2015: How Can Emerging Technologies Fit into a Supplier Payment Strategy?
Each year, Ardent Partners conducts a series of market research studies focused on the accounts payable (“AP”) and P2P markets. Our most recent of these looked at the state of…
Manifest Destiny: The CPO’s Call to Expand
This decade, business has been gripped by an expansion fever, combining more business units, organizations, and products in response to increasing competition and the market demand for new, more differentiated,…