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Payables Place Asks “Would You Bet On Paper or Against It?”
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... Read more
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M & A(riba) – SAP’s Big Bet
Building on our “instant analysis” of SAP’s multi-billion dollar bid for Ariba, we’ve now come back with a comprehensive report that covers the deal in greater detail. For those of... Read more
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Instant Analysis: Acquisition in the Clouds – SAP to Acquire Ariba for $4.3 Billion
The procurement-themed events held at SAP’s SAPPHIRE in Orlando last Monday night were abuzz with the rumor that SAP was going to make a huge cloud procurement announcement the next... Read more
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ePayables 101: Graduation
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... Read more
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ePayables 101: More Metrics
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... Read more
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ePayables 101: The Metrics
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... Read more
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ePayables 101: The Approach
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... Read more
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ePayables 101: The Opportunities
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... Read more
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ePayables 101: The Challenges
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... Read more
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Using ePayables to Enable Trade Finance and Optimize Working Capital
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... Read more