http://www.efficionconsulting.com/Articles.aspx A blog from Efficion Consulting on DotNetNuke, asp.net, design, and other things relating to web development. <p>Accounts Payables organizations are charged with reducing costs, improving performance, achieving regulatory compliance, increasing visibility and enabling the corporation’s strategic initiatives — all at the same time. The fundamental issue is not whether a company should strive for these goals but how well they can be accomplished. This paper will count down the top ten reasons to automate your AP processes and explore the solutions that can be leveraged to reduce costs, strengthen controls, improve service levels and increase visibility.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=37 Giorgio Scappaticcio Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT <p>Paper invoices and manual processing continue to hamper accounts payable operations, keeping suppliers in the dark and failing to give finance the visibility it needs to actively manage the organisations' cash options. This study, conducted during March and April 2011, profiles 130 enteprises at varying stages of AP maturity to identify what differentiates those achieving the greatest results from their less successful peers. The end goal, and the target of the automation efforts, is to drive costs savings through discout capture, penalty avoidance and lower labour costs - all while improving the speed with which they can access payables-related information.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=46 Giorgio Scappaticcio Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT <p>Most organizations have developed key performance indicators and metrics to help monitor and manage various aspects of their business. But too often, companies fail to track the most useful metrics on the health and operational effi ciency of their business.<br /> This white paper explains why you need metrics and presents a framework to help you develop and use them. It also identifi es and describes key metrics that every company should use and emphasizes the need to review them regularly to ensure they support your organizational goals.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=49 Giorgio Scappaticcio Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT <p>The benefits brought from automating document intensive business processes cannot be overstated. In the US and Europe alone over 20 million tons of office paper is produced and consumed every year. The use of paper remains pervasive across many industries, resulting in high administrative overhead costs and too many points of failure as documents are routed throughout the organization.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=50 Giorgio Scappaticcio Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT <p>Over the years, we have charted a slow but steady increase in the number of organisations transitioning from basic scanning of paper document for archive, to the more sophisticated recognition and capture of multi-format content as input to business processes. We have frequently recorded a strong return on investment performance from these scanning and capture projects, but, as evidenced by this year's results, there is a considerable variation in levels of adoption and maturity across this increasingly broad spectrum of activties. In this report, we set out to measure the investment drivers in more depth, looking at various capture strategies, including outsourcing. We also look at capture integration with key enterprise systems and compare sourcing preferences for business process management (BPM) products and modules.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=44 Giorgio Scappaticcio Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT <p>The Strategic Value of Accounts Payable Automation - Report <br /> The E-Payables 2010 report from the Aberdeen Group explores how enterprises of all sizes can derive efficiency gains from automation, and how these improvements enable them to better pursue strategic initiatives. <br />  </p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=45 Giorgio Scappaticcio Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT <p>The webinar highlightes the benefits of standardising your document-driven processes on a single platform to realise cost savings and improved efficiencies. <a href="http://app.go.kofax.com/e/es.aspx?s=2023&e=102&elq=70e511f4416d4cd3845037f74e8adb6d">Replay the webinar and download a complimentary white paper</a>!</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=42 Giorgio Scappaticcio Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT <p><a href="http://www.xcellerateit.com/news/news-xcellerate-it/xcellerate-it-partners-with-dataract-25-nov-2010.aspx">Xcellerate IT</a> partners with Dataract for an end-to-end Enterprise Automation solution</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=43 Giorgio Scappaticcio Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT <p><a href="http://www.xcellerateit.com/news/xcellerate-it-newsletter/october-2010.aspx">Xcellerate IT October 2010 newsletter</a> Read about the latest news and events on Accounts Payable Automation.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=33 Giorgio Scappaticcio Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT The white paper highlights the various levels of automation, or stages of maturity, for invoice processing. Move your AP organization to the next level by understanding the barriers to invoice automation and learning how to overcome them. http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=41 Giorgio Scappaticcio Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT <p>Xcellerate IT is hosting an Executive Lunch to present our solution for Accounts Payable Automation in Sydney. Learn how to automate and streamline accounts payable processes with our image capture and workflow solution. <a href="http://www.xcellerateit.com/news/events/executive-lunch.aspx">Click here to register</a>.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=40 Giorgio Scappaticcio Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT <p>Xcellerate IT will be attending and displaying the latest document capture solutions at the Inforum Melbourne 2010, the largest gathering of Infor customers, partners and product experts in the Pacific Region.<br /><a href="http://www.xcellerateit.com/news/events.aspx">Click here to register</a>.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=39 Giorgio Scappaticcio Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT <p><a href="http://www.xcellerateit.com/news/news-xcellerate-it/south-australia-police-partners-with-xcellerate-it.aspx">South Australia Police</a> partners with Xcellerate IT for higher service standards</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=38 Giorgio Scappaticcio Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT <p>Automating accounts payable transactions has delivered many costand productivity benefits over the years by eliminating the clerical tasks associated with filing and processing invoices. Now the latest phase in the technology’s evolution means new benefits for CIOs, CFOs and other senior managers thanks to integration with ERP applications and tools that provide an in-depth view of the accounts payable process from end-to-end.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=35 Giorgio Scappaticcio Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT <p>Hyundai gains a competitive advantage in the automotive market by automating its accounts payable department with AP Dynamics, Xcellerate IT’s solution for AP automation.<br />  </p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=24 Giorgio Scappaticcio Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT <p>Xcellerate IT is hosting an Executive Lunch to present our solution for Accounts Payable Automation in Melbourne on the 16th of March 2010.  Learn how to automate and streamline Accounts Payable processes with our image capture and workflow solution. Click here to register.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=20 Giorgio Scappaticcio Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT <p> The BGC Group rationalises supplier invoice processing by partnering with  Xcellerate IT ‘s solution for accounts payable automation</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=23 Administrator Account Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT <p><a href="http://www.xcellerateit.com/news/news-xcellerate-it/hyundai-15-october-2009.aspx">Hyundai</a> gains a competitive advantage in the automotive market by automating its accounting processes with Xcellerate IT</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=29 Giorgio Scappaticcio Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT <p><a href="http://www.xcellerateit.com/news/news-xcellerate-it/bcg-group-11november2009.aspx">The BGC Group</a> rationalises supplier invoice processing by partnering with Xcellerate IT ‘s solution for accounts payable automation</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=34 Giorgio Scappaticcio Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT <p><a href="http://www.xcellerateit.com/news/news-xcellerate-it/uniwa-15-september-2009.aspx">The University of Western Australia </a>steps towards a paperless automated accounts payable office with Xcellerate IT’s solution for accounts payable automation.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=25 Giorgio Scappaticcio Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT <p>Australian Outback Tour streamlines its back office processes with accounts payable automation with the Xcellerate It solution.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=30 Giorgio Scappaticcio Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT <p>Business transactions can be thought of as ‘conversations,’ where information is exchanged as documents, email messages, instant messages, and fax transmissions. Effectively communicating with your customers, partners, and suppliers through any combination of these can be a significant challenge. Therefore, it should be no surprise that companies around the globe struggle to solve this problem without increasing their labor costs. This white paper proposes a 5-step approach to automate an accounts payable operation, describing the typical costs of processing invoices manually and the saving that can be achieved with each of the incremental steps.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=13 Administrator Account Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>In today's global economy, information exchange is vital. Competitive advantage goes to the companies that can share information and collaborate quickly and accurately in the most cost-effective manner. Combine this with government requirements around data accuracy, security, and auditing, and your company's very survival is at stake. Accurate, timely, and efficient data capture has quickly moved into virtually every corporation's list of top business concerns. This white paper discusses the benefits of distributed capture to an organization and how Kofax can help attain those benefits.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=12 Administrator Account Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>The importance of distributed and automated capture in BPO solutions has never been greater. This paper discusses the challenges facing the BPO industry and the pivotal role of document centric technologies from Kofax to meet those challenges.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=11 Administrator Account Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>This white paper covers typical concerns of an IT department regarding software implementation details and how Kofax Capture addresses those concerns.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=10 Administrator Account Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>Evaluate a make/buy decision for a document capture product by following the steps and filling out the worksheets. You will be able to make reasonable estimates for the cost of developing a capture application which you can then compare with the cost of purchasing a commercial product.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=9 SuperUser Account Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>In both document and data capture, savings are measured in seconds, multiplied by thousands of documents. The savings can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars over a year, especially if the capture system can also improve the quality of the scanned information.<br />  </p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=8 Administrator Account Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>Xcellerate IT is a ‘Platinum’ sponsor of the TechnologyOne Evolve event in February from the 24th to the 27th at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. <a href="http://communications.technologyonecorp.com/Evolve/" target="_blank">Click here for further information.</a></p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=1 SuperUser Account Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>Xcellerate IT wins the war against paper at City of Wagga Wagga to streamline the accounts payable department with supplier invoice scanning.</p> http://www.efficionconsulting.com/articles.aspx?ItemID=3 Administrator Account Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT