Single-tenancy can provide some of the benefits of a private cloud and public cloud. The infrastructure is still maintained by the cloud service provider and the application by the solution provider, but the major difference is the application is designed for your company, to meet the needs of your individual process.
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As we are all coping with the new realities the COVID19 pandemic has created we also must start to look towards the future. While we are certainly going to enter a recession, the depth and length of such a downturn to our economy is unknown. What is known is that as we come out of […]
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What choices do you have for vendor portal technology? A vendor portal (or supplier portal) refers to a portal that allows vendors to access and provide the buying company with necessary information in the form of documents or data as well as access documents and data provided by the buying company related to the transactions […]
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What is Document Capture? Document Capture refers to software applications that automate the process of scanning paper documents or importing electronic documents. ICG specializes in the Document Capture of invoices for Accounts Payable environments. There are four main types of documents captured in the AP world: The key to streamlining your document capture process in […]
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One of the most popular trends today in business is moving from on-premise and maintaining business applications on internal servers to cloud based applications. There are several reasons for this trend but two of the most common are reductions in internal costs, particularly IT costs, as well as a reduced IT role in getting new […]
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What is Workflow? Workflow, sometimes referred to as Business Process Management (BPM), in the accounts payable world, is the required tasks needed to approve a payment to a vendor or creditor based on a predetermined set of rules. These rules can range from highly complex to fairly simplistic depending on the nature of the AP […]
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What is Data Capture? Data capture is the process of “capturing” and converting information from documents (paper or electronic) into a form that can be handled electronically, and preferably with little or no human intervention. It is present in some form or another in every organization’s financial back-office. An Accounts Payable (AP) environment extracts information […]
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To take advantage of all the benefits of hosting an application in the cloud, you do not have to compromise functionality or configurability. Let’s talk about how to do this with single tenant cloud solutions. What is SaaS? Software as a Service (SaaS) is the predominant delivery model for cloud-based business applications today. SaaS is […]
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What is Invoice Matching? Invoice matching is the comparing and linking of a supplier invoice with the underlying data on which the cost is based, such as a contract or purchase order (PO). Usually companies will perform a 2 or 3 way match. A two way match compares the invoice amount to the corresponding PO. If […]
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What is a PO Flip? A PO Flip, is essentially a conversion of a purchase order into an invoice. Usually done electronically or through an automated solution such as a Vendor Portal or Supplier Portal. In a PO Flip scenario the vendor would enter a PO number into a web form and the the buying company’s […]
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