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  • 4 Things that will help you know if your current process is ready for AP Automation

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    I consider myself a person that does a lot of preparing. To give you an example my family and I moved about 8 months ago and I had a detailed project plan with an attached Spreadsheet that nobody but me paid attention to. In the end we moved but I think the rest of the…

  • With AP Automation, Is Cost The Most Important Factor? – 1 Sad Story.

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    I think I would turn off an entire group of readers if I wrote that cost wasn’t important. Cost is the way we establish value for things. Cost helps up benchmark and prioritize projects within the business world. Cost is very important, but today I am going to use a real life example to help…

  • Has Technology Past Your Company By? #APAutomation – 3 Things

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    I feel bad for low tech people. If you think of it, being low tech is not so bad… you get to watch a lot more TV, take walks and have more face time with people… that’s face to face time… not Apple’s version of FaceTime. The Setup I have the fortune of talking with…

  • 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…

  • Best of Breed and Accounts Payable Automation

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    Earlier this week I wrote an article about workflow and capture shouldn’t be separate. You can go back and review the post, but the long and short of it is, if you separate the two your expense will go up greatly, that’s why it’s important to find a service provider that can do both well.…

  • With AP Automation is Industry Knowledge Important? 3 Things

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    It is one of the things I ask when evaluating software… do you know my industry? That’s when the software provider say, “So, what is Accounts Payable Automation anyway?” Important? People, generally, believe their Accounts Payable process is unique. If you look at it from a high level, there are only so many ways to…

  • Who is more qualified? AP Automation or a Person?

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    This is my man vs machine article. Who is more qualified – Accounts Payable Automation software or a good old human being? The Argument In my book The Argument to Automation – How Innovation Can INSPIRE Not Fire, I write a lot about why Accounts Payable Automation is good and the impact and benefit of…

  • AP Automation Is Only Good If… 3 Things

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    I have made a lot of progress in the last few months around the definition of Accounts Payable Automation. Some of you may know that’s the reason I wrote The 8 Pitfalls was to help people define AP Automation. Others of you may know that I didn’t reach my goal when writing that book. Good…

  • The Outcome and Impact of #APAutomation

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    I tell people who are new to Accounts Payable Automation, whether they are a users, evaluator or salesperson the same thing. I tell them the problem with AP Automation is people don’t know what it is, how it works or the impact that it will have on their organization. Then a pause for a minute…

  • With AP Automation Is It More Software Than Service? #SaaS

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    With all the talk about the cloud and server-based software, I thought it may be timely to write about software and service as it pertains to Accounts Payable Automation. Not just writing about it as much as answering the question; is AP Automation more service than software? Software First, there is no way to automate…