Examining the Reasons Electronic Invoicing Will Truly Cross the Proverbial Adoption Chasm (Part 2)
The “partial” solution to electronic invoicing seems alive and well, based on some of the survey response data in the Institute of Financial Operations/IAPP/Basware 2011 study on the subject. This partial solution we speak of is, of course, scanning
Examining the Reasons Electronic Invoicing Will Truly Cross the Proverbial Adoption Chasm (Part 1)
Courtesy of Basware, I’ve have the chance to recently dig into the results of the Institute of Financial Operations/IAPP 2011 E-Invoicing survey report, which examines adoption trends and needs/wants of those in the market for electron…
Analyzing the Crossgate Acquisition: An SAP and Market Perspective
Earlier this morning, we covered the P2P rationale behind the SAP/Crossgate acquisition, while touching upon other points as well. On the surface, the transaction will provide SAP with a market offering to help bring together the space…
Basware Expands, Introduces New BPO Offering — From P2P Software to AP Outsourcing (Part 1)
Basware (one of the most capable invoice automation/electronic invoice presentment payment software providers in the market) recently announced it was entering the AP outsourcing market with a new BPO offering of its own. This mar…
Rant: Custom Software Development – Is There a Point?
I had a demonstration earlier this year with an organization (that will go unnamed) that decided to build its own internal Spend Management applications, starting first with an application to span the traditional purchase to pay (…
Rearden and Ketera — Acquisition Implications for Ketera Customers
While Rearden’s acquisition of Ketera has many implications for the broader P2P and Spend Management market — ranging from an evolving competitive landscape with greater choice of stable vendors for customers to a potential re-in…
With Ketera, Will Rearden Prove a Viable P2P Competitor to Ariba, Basware, Coupa, SAP, Oracle, etc.?
See our initial coverage of Rearden’s acquisition of Ketera here. One thing has been for sure in terms of Ketera in recent years, and that’s the fact that few dispute whether the vendor has gotten enough at bats relative to compet…
Ariba Supplier Network Alternatives: Basware (Background — Part 2)
In the first post in this series, we provided a number of background details on Basware’s Connectivity service offering. Continuing with the second installment, we’ll probe on Basware’s capabilities as an alternative to Ariba’s supplier network. Today, Basware Connectivity service offers automated format conversion for approximately 50 different e-invoicing formats (Spend Matters analysis suggests this [...]
Ariba Supplier Network Alternatives: Basware (Background — Part 1)
This post is part of a fall 2010 series looking at Ariba Supplier Network alternatives. We will cover each Ariba supplier network alternative in a series of three-part posts starting with each provider’s basic background in the ar…
Basware and Lavante: Where Invoicing, Supplier Management and Audit Recover Meet? (Part 3)
In the first two posts in this series looking at the recently announced relationship between Basware and Lavante (Part 1 and Part 2), I provided context behind the partnership announcement, including a 30,000 foot fly-by of the audit recovery market and how Lavante has introduced a solution originally designed to automate and improve upon traditional [...]
