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21st December 2015

Guest blog by Drew Hofler, Senior Director Marketing, Ariba

Accounts payable has come a long way. As organisations large and small embrace technology to digitize their processes, the function is making significant progress in transforming from a back office task focused on short-term efficiencies and cost savings, to a key driver of insights, intelligence and long-term financial goals. The needle will continue to move in 2016, as AP leverages digitization and data to create more broad business value. Here are five things you can expect in the year ahead

1st December, 2015

This time last week I went to the super trendy Wallacespace in Clerkenwell for the UK leg of Basware Connect. I’ve been to a few of the Basware events in the past, but in the words of Warren Daniels, Marketing Director UK, this year they decided to “tear up the book and do it differently.”

17th November, 2015

The news that Tradeshift was entering into the procurement world sent social media into a flurry of activity when they announced the arrival of Tradeshift Buy recently. Never one to stand still, CEO Christian Lanng said it was something they’d been looking into for the last two years, but had no intention of stepping into the market just for the sake of it.  In fact, he was keen to stress that the drive came from customer demand, pointing out that the company was seeing deep adoption on the payment side and their clients wanted a way to be able to tie up both ends of the P2P process as easily as possible.

Friday 16th October, 2015

With around 300 attendees from 30 countries, the 2^nd Exchange Summit in Barcelona this month proved to be a hot bed of all the latest in einvoicing. One of the main attractions of the show is the chance to meet some key influencers in the space – from vendors, policy makers and consultants, to experienced end-users.