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Payables Place First Thing: Tradeshift Introduces Supply Chain Finance Using Blockchain Technology

By Andrew Bartolini June 1, 2018Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Technology1 Comment

[Editor’s Note: Last week Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, and Research Director, Bob Cohen, met with Tradeshift CEO Christian Lanng to discuss his company’s new announcement related to blockchain…

Payables Place First Thing: AvidXchange’s B2B Payments Revolution

By Andrew Bartolini May 25, 2018Articles, Events, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

AvidXchange held its annual user conference, Revolution 2018, in Chicago last week and we both attended the full conference and the pre-conference partner meetings. AvidXchange, a North Carolina-based provider of invoice automation…

Payables Place First Thing: Where is the Best Place to Begin an ePayables Automation Initiative?

By Andrew Bartolini May 11, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

It is generally agreed that ePayables automation includes three distinct processes – 1) Receive, 2) Process, and 3) Pay. There is value to an organization in automating each part of…

Payables Place First Thing: The Change in the ePayables Buying Process Over Time

By Andrew Bartolini May 4, 2018Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay

The way enterprises do business has changed significantly over the past 15 years and these shifts are reflected in the way ePayables and P2P solution providers go to market today.…

The Corcentric Brand Unification: Setting a Strategy for Future Growth

By Andrew Bartolini April 23, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

A few weeks ago, Corcentric announced that they were combining business operations with its parent company, AmeriQuest Business Services, under the Corcentric company name (read Ardent’s initial coverage of the announcement from…

Payables Place First Thing: Intelligent AP – Maximizing Big Data

By Phil Bartolini April 20, 2018Articles, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

The emergence of innovative technologies in recent years has the potential to radically alter the way business is done. And, as enterprises intensify their focus on optimizing internal processes, modern…

Payables Place First Thing: Supply Chain Finance – Creating a Win-Win Situation for Buyers and Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini April 13, 2018Articles, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

[Editor's Note: Ardent Partners' State of ePayables 2018 Research Survey is now LIVE. If you are a professional working in Accounts Payable (AP) or Finance, please consider taking this ~15…

Payables Place First Thing: AP Automation: Beyond Transactional Efficiency

By Andrew Bartolini March 30, 2018Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Throughout my career, I’ve worked with hundreds of companies looking to automate their Accounts Payable operations. Typically, the organizations are drowning in paper, suffering from manual, time-consuming, costly, error-prone processes…

Payables Place First Thing: Thoughts from SAP Concur Fusion: Delivering Value to Customers, Growth though the Partner Ecosystem, and Analytics Front and Center

By Andrew Bartolini March 23, 2018Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

After spending the better part of last week in Las Vegas at SAP Ariba Live, this week I headed to the beautiful Pacific Northwest to attend the SAP Concur Fusion in Seattle…

Payables Place First Thing: More Isn’t Necessarily Better When It Comes To Supplier Portals

By Andrew Bartolini March 9, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy

Welcome to Ardent Partners’ weekly “Payables Place First Thing” article series. This series will feature recent articles from our sister site Payables Place, which is the global source of ePayables news,…