Category: Corporate Payments
The commercial real estate digital transformation is already in the building
Do me a quick favor: put down your phone for a second and look around. Whether you’re at home or in the office, you’ll likely spot digital transformation in progress, from smart speakers to automated...
Finance leaders take stock of end-of-year priorities
The last quarter of the calendar year is also the end of the fiscal year for most companies. For finance leaders that can create both financial challenges and opportunities, and 2021 is no different. Coming...
When you think AP automation, think roadmap
When we talk to clients and prospective customers about achieving AP automation and the many benefits that come with it, we’ve long tended to focus on what they need to do in order to be...
Every industry has AP challenges. Every industry needs the same solution.
There are only a few certain things in life. Benjamin Franklin said those were death and taxes. Another old proverb lists birth, death and change. And anyone who has ever called a helpline knows being...
NACHA update: Communication security fills the headlines
In case anyone needed a reminder of how aggressive and creative fraudsters can be, last week provided a stark reminder of both. T-Mobile was covered as the victim this time, as it reported that SIM-swap...
Post-pandemic payables: what’s changed and what’s next
Ardent Partners, The State of ePayables 2021
AP Automation fuels ROI in commercial real estate
With real estate continuing to show strong KPIs across the board, this is no time to work in analog processes. Across the commercial real estate industry, CFOs and accounts payable leaders are keeping pace with...
Why payment automation in real estate is an accounts payable and vendor victory
In real estate and property, vendor networks are strategically important. But for most real estate businesses today, these networks are holding both accounts payable teams and the entire business back. Far too many payment steps...
AP emerges as essential value driver during business disruption…and beyond
For the past 16 years, Ardent Partners has surveyed finance professionals to gain insight into the current state of accounts payable, focusing on what’s keeping them up at night. And after a year of global...
Fighting portal fatigue (or how I learned to love portals)
If this were an informercial, I’d kick things off by showing a stressed accounts receivable specialist spinning his chair between four monitors, flipping through a notebook to try to remember passwords for all the portals...