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Bad Habits When Automating AP – 6 of Them
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Habits are an interesting thing. You have probably heard the saying you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Well, good things dogs don’t run accounts payable processes. If you are like me, it seem like every time you turn around something is changing. Don’t get me wrong, I think change is good, so where…
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5 Successful AP Automation Answers 1 Simple Question!
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Answers to questions are such an important part of looking into a new process like AP Automation. As I have written and spoken about many times the idea of automating is more change/impact than buying software. Here I Go Again One of the big challenges to getting answers is asking the right questions, so today…
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Getting To The Bottom Of Your Company To Evaluate AP Automation Competition
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When I wrote The 8 Pitfalls I realized that 50% of the book was dedicated to helping companies looking inward before looking outward to solution providers for AP Automation. Traditionally When an Accounts Payable Automation initiative starts someone will say, “hey, let’s search the internet to see who is out there that does this paperless…
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AP Automation Competition – Find The Learning Curve
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Last week I got an email from a company that said they are in the middle of an Accounts Payable Automation project, and their first order of business is to gather all of the service providers and put them side by side so they can compare them “apples to apples”. The Problem It has never…
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Time VS ROI – #AP Automation
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I am still writing about verses. The articles that have preceded this one were document management vs. automation, transactional vs. seat license and the last one was SaaS vs. self hosted. The point is to help you find out, based on the service providers you are using, what to look for so you are able…
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SaaS VS Self Hosted – #APAutomation
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I am continuing with my verses series. My hope is to help you that are thinking about Accounts Payable Automation for the first time to sift through all of the competitive noise as well as those of you that are looking to improve your current AP Automated process. Topic My topic today is about software…
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Competition – Seat License VS Transactional
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This week I am writing about competition. I am trying to take a unique angle at it by helping you understand a few tangible differences between AP Automation service providers. Recap Yesterday I wrote about automation and document management, and today’s topic is seat license and transactional fees. Here is the great news about this…
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Competition – The Best and Worst of AP Automation – 6 Points
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Something I say a lot, when working with a company is, if you talk to 20 different service providers about Accounts Payable Automation you will get 20 different answers (or opinions) on the definition of automation. The definition itself is not the problem, but if you don’t have a common ground (like a definition) then…
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To Do List For Your First 100 Days With AP Automation
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I like the expression – drinking for a fire hose. Below is an example: One reason for liking this express is at the second I am writing this post outside and it is 93 degrees, but two because the statement explains very well the image of someone dealing with something new that they have never…
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6 Trends of the Accounts Payable Automation Universe
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My wife gets a kick out of me trying on hats, you know the “one size fits all” variety. The reason she thinks it’s funny is because they never fit my head. It makes so much sense to her that my head is always way too big for the one size fits all hats. In…