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    Which Companies Have The Best Adoption Rate for AP Automation

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    Adoption is always a big concern when doing something new. In the early days of my automation career companies used to do, which I now think, are crazy things to get people to use their platform. I remember one service gave a way a motorcycle and another an SUV. 100%? Thankfully those days of bribery…

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    Does AP Automation Help Delegation – 3 Things to Consider

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    I write as many “meaty” articles that I can (sorry for the food reference, I have been exercising a lot). However, it is very nice every once in a while to write about sides benefits of Accounts Payable Automation. Delegation just happens to be one of those sides’ benefits. Delegation Delegation just happens to be…

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    Apparently – I Am Going To Be Doing A Lot Of Traveling This Fall – #APAutomation

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    Thankfully Accounts Payable Automation is becoming more of an interest for companies, which is great for someone like me… I have a very healthy list of live engagement this fall that I hope to see you and meet you. However The real reason, apparently, to do this post is, I apparently need to use the video…

  • Finally – Competition And Accounts Payable Automation

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    I know I have been writing a lot about competition and AP Automation. When I first started this series I was hoping I was onto something that has been bothering the accounting community for a long time now. What Is It? For the longest time, and I don’t see this changing anytime soon, companies have…

  • The Real Competition For AP Automation

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    The last few weeks I have been writing about competition. I am hoping that I have helped those of you that are looking at AP Automation service providers side by side and not seeing a difference. So Far I have written about, hosted VS SaaS, license fee VS transactional fee, and ROI VS time, just…

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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…