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Instant Analysis: SciQuest Sees “Upside” in Contract Lifecycle Management (I)

By Andrew Bartolini July 26, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

On Tuesday, after the market closed, SciQuest (ticker: SQI), a provider of cloud-based supply management solutions, announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Upside Software Inc. ("Upside"),…

Payables Place Asks “Would You Bet On Paper or Against It?”

By Andrew Bartolini July 24, 2012Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

Earlier today, Vishal Patel, Director of ePayables Research at Ardent Partners posed an interesting question on Ardent's new site, Payables Place, regarding the amount of paper invoices in the marketplace…

Introducing Payables Place

By Andrew Bartolini June 18, 2012Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

For the past six years, the analysts (Andrew Bartolini & Vishal Patel) at Ardent Partners have been closely covering the ePayables (or AP Automation) market. During that time, we've published…

ePayables 101: Graduation

By Andrew Bartolini May 14, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

Congratulations! If you've read the links below, you have successfully completed CPO Rising's ePayables 101 course, an immersion program focused on AP Automation and Transformation. The Challenges The Opportunities The…

ePayables 101: More Metrics

By Andrew Bartolini May 11, 2012Articles, General, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

ePayables 101 - More Metrics Today we’ll look at the other key metrics (besides the average cost per invoice discussed last time) that can help an AP department better understand…

ePayables 101: The Metrics

By Andrew Bartolini May 10, 2012Articles, General, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay

ePayables 101 - The Metrics Part 4 of our ePayables 101 series starts right in with a discussion of the key AP performance metric that can be used to build…

ePayables 101: The Approach

By Andrew Bartolini May 9, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

We continue to build out our ePayables 101 series with this article focused on how to begin a push for AP transformation or "The Approach" (The first two articles are…

ePayables 101: The Opportunities

By Andrew Bartolini May 8, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

ePayables 101 – The Opportunities Last time, the ePayables 101 series began with a look at some (but, not all) of the key challenges facing the average accounts payable organization…

ePayables 101: The Challenges

By Andrew Bartolini May 7, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

As I mentioned last time, we are dedicating this week to ePayables by presenting a "course" - ePayables 101 - that is intended as a reference and on-going resource for…

Using ePayables to Enable Trade Finance and Optimize Working Capital

By Andrew Bartolini May 4, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

With an exciting new report from Vishal Patel, Ardent Partners' Research Director focused on ePayables in the offing and an exciting new ePayables-related venture soon to be announced, we've decided…