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Beyond manager rubber stamping: How DIY Smart Workflows transform expense audits
Lisa, an audit manager at a global services firm, often stared at her screen each morning and sighed at a familiar sight: dozens of flagged expense...
Read the ArticleFrom chaos to control: How AI simplifies task management
Picture this: A mountain of vendor emails floods your AP inbox daily. Payment inquiries pile up, invoice processing requests multiply, assignments...
Read the ArticleRemoving walls with Smart Invoice Approval Workflows
Imagine starting the day knowing your Accounts Payable Team won’t be wasting hours deciphering spreadsheets with complex approval layers, or chasing...
Read the ArticleSimplifying T&E approvals: Smart Workflows for efficient expense management
Why T&E approvals frustrate everyone & how to fix it “Compliance and fraud prevention take teamwork,” explains finance expert Artin Rodriguez,...
Read the ArticleRevolutionizing finance: How AI workbenches are transforming workflows
AI workflow automation makes finance teams more efficient AI agents are creating a fundamental shift in how we think about automation. These aren't...
Read the ArticleUsing AI to inform expense insights for managers
In an ideal world, managers would never need to sift through expense reports or decipher complex dashboards to understand their business’s spending....
Read the ArticleWelcoming change: Keys to successful AI implementation in AP
Wende Burgess, Associate Partner at CCP Global, joined us at AppZen on Tour in Dallas to share her expert perspective on the critical change...
Read the ArticleTop 5 trends for AI-adopting finance leaders
How can Finance use AI to solve business challenges? CFOs and heads of Finance from industry-leading Fortune 500 companies, meeting at our annual...
Read the ArticleEmbracing the AI workforce: A framework for success
As Director of Customer Success at AppZen, I’ve had a lot of conversations with customers about a topic that's on everyone's minds, lately: how to...
Read the ArticleIntroducing AppZen Coach: AI-powered recommendations to optimize your company spend
The finance expert you never had to hire Regularly making effective expense policy changes and improvements to business processes require data to...
Read the ArticleHere’s why finance teams are training generative AI coworkers
Incorporating disrupter technologies like AI–especially generative AI–always involves a human element. At AppZen on Tour in Dallas, our customers...
Read the ArticleHype or ROI? AI’s impact on finance organizations
Not a day goes by that you don’t hear about artificial intelligence or generative AI and its effects on culture, society, and business. Building a...
Read the ArticleA finance leaders’ guide to assessing generative AI
Don't be the guinea pig. Finance leaders are always searching for solution providers who understand their pain points and can offer ways to improve...
Read the ArticleAn AI journey: The revolutionary role of Transformers in finance AI
Co-founder Kunal Verma explains the role of Transformers in developing generative AI and how they’ve contributed to AppZen’s success. Kunal...
Read the ArticleBiden’s Executive Order on AI and the EU AI Act: Business as usual?
When the Biden Administration released its Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence on...
Read the ArticleAI in your AP inbox? 6 important questions to ask
Is your AP inbox overwhelmed? Demand is growing for finance solutions that use artificial intelligence to handle the everyday manual tasks in...
Read the ArticleModeling good behavior: The 3 AI models Expense Audit customers love most
Compliance and spend reduction are critical to the success of any organization. From the most junior auditor to the CFO, each member of the finance...
Read the ArticleUpskilling, genAI, and our customers take center stage
Our customers actively partner with us to push the boundaries of what AI can do. At AppZen on Tour in Chicago, we continued the tradition of...
Read the ArticleCelebrating Ten Years of AI Innovation
Ten years of AI-first innovation At our recent AppZen On Tour event in Chicago, I had the chance to share a proud moment with our customers,...
Read the ArticleAccording to our survey, finance teams are overwhelmed by email. Could generative AI help?
Spending 7 hours a week on email? According to our survey, you’re not alone. In the fast-paced world of finance, efficiency is key. In June and July...
Read the ArticleGenerative AI meets AP processing: the efficiency of AppZen Inbox
At AppZen, we're always looking for ways to make your financial operations more efficient and effective. That’s why we're excited to introduce our...
Read the ArticleHow AI simplifies India’s e-invoice processing
The e-invoicing mandate for India is finally a reality. Businesses registered on the GST portal are now issuing e-invoices to their customers. This...
Read the Article5 ways to hit company savings goals with AI
As a finance manager, one of your primary responsibilities is to help your company reach its savings goals. Achieving these goals requires a...
Read the ArticleAre your corporate expense policies getting lost in translation?
In this edition of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at how finance teams can verify foreign language expense receipts. This ongoing series...
Read the ArticleThe 3Ps of expense compliance verification: pervasive, preventive, prepayment
In this edition of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at the limitations of existing compliance verification and how to transform it into a...
Read the ArticleThink twice before submitting unauthorized expenses. Seniority and performance may not save you from being fired.
Our ongoing “Did you know?” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen and how you can take advantage of our solutions’ capabilities....
Read the Article6 ways AI can improve your spend audit process
Is your finance team busy and overworked, but too hesitant to change their spend audit processes? As time-consuming and frustrating as manual expense...
Read the ArticleWhen it comes to corporate expense audits, one size does not fit all
In this segment of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at why amount verification per expense type can help control excessive spend and policy...
Read the ArticleEmpowering Auditors to Act: Combining integrated case management with prepayment risk identification
In this segment of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at why integrated case management is such an essential part of making expense audit programs...
Read the ArticleManaging unseen duplicate spend in finance departments
In this segment of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at the issue of duplicate spend across both invoices and employee expenses. This ongoing...
Read the ArticlePersonal expense or valid business spend? With AI, it’s black and white
In this segment of our “Did You Know?” series, we examine the blurred lines between personal and business expenses, and suggest tools and insights...
Read the ArticleDigital aspirations in Finance: what type of essential CFO do you want to be?
The world is becoming increasingly digital, and the finance department is no different. We’ve come a long way since the adding machines and...
Read the ArticleWorried about Sunshine Act compliance? Here’s a simple reporting solution
In this edition of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at simplifying HCP/One Payment compliance to meet the requirements of the Sunshine Act. This...
Read the ArticleYour expenses never stop changing. Neither should your expense analytics.
In this edition of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at on-demand expense analytics and how management dashboards can help you take a more...
Read the ArticleThe top 3 expense audit analytics tools you can’t live without
In this edition of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at the use of self-service reporting and analytics within the finance department. This ongoing...
Read the ArticleFrom Powerpoint to Pedicures: Controlling suspicious spend in a remote working world
Our ongoing “Did you know” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
Read the ArticleYou can’t manage what you can’t measure: Getting a 360-degree view of spend data
Our ongoing series “Did you know” highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
Read the Article3 excellent reasons to benchmark your company spend against industry peers
Our ongoing “Did you know” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
Read the ArticleWorld-class customer support to transform your expense operations
Our ongoing “Did you know” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
Read the Article3 Reasons to use AI to automate financial compliance
Our ongoing “Did you know” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
Read the ArticleAre repeat offenders staying under your expense audit radar?
Our ongoing “Did you know” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
Read the ArticleThe Autonomous Index: A framework for CFOs moving from automation to autonomy
Imagine a self-driving car asking the driver at every intersection which way it should go or whether the road is clear. This is not very useful...and...
Read the ArticleFinding the Right Focus - Finance Analytics to the Power of Ten
Charles and Ray Eames’ documentary, Powers of Ten, is one of the most famous short films ever made and illustrates beautifully the importance of...
Read the ArticleFinance teams really can afford to audit 100% of corporate expenses prior to reimbursement
Welcome to our new series of blogs on expense auditing issues, trends, and automation best practices. Our ongoing “Did you know?” series highlights...
Read the ArticleAI Automation for Your AP Inbox with SAP Ariba and AppZen
Accounts payable teams using SAP Ariba have been struggling with long cycle times and high-cost invoice processing for years. These teams find...
Read the ArticleThe Benefits of Autonomous Invoice Processing for CFOs
Over the last 10+ years, very little has changed in the way we perform the accounts payable process. We have seen incremental improvements to invoice...
Read the ArticlePivotal transformation: From assisted driving to fully autonomous finance
Mauricio Peña, Chief Safety Officer for Waymo, one of the most well-known companies developing technology for driverless vehicles, recently wrote an...
Read the ArticleAutonomous AP: How AI is transforming Accounts Payable for modern finance teams
AI has been transforming the worlds of driving, advertising, e-commerce, personal assistants, and customer service. Now, AI for Accounts Payable is...
Read the ArticleOracle Payables with AI-driven autonomous invoice processing automation
We recently held a webinar discussing how Oracle Payables customers can fully automate all invoices when combined with AppZen’s Finance AI. Watch the...
Read the ArticleRobotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI set to drive next-level modern finance
Robotic process automation is a very, very hot topic at the moment. RPA technology automates basic repetitive, typically manual, processes and...
Read the ArticleBalancing Cost Cutting with Innovation - The Future State of Finance Departments
CFOs are frequently asked to do more with less. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, this expectation has been more pronounced than ever. Many tout...
Read the ArticleThe Self-driving Finance Department – Fact or Fiction?
In 2005, DARPA issued a challenge to the world to create a self-driving car.
Read the ArticleCFO Survey: Five Surprising Facts About IT in Finance Departments
The past year was full of surprises. From the pandemic that none of us saw coming to a US election without precedent to a seismic move from...
Read the ArticleUsing advanced AI to eliminate unnecessary employee spend
Managing employee expenses is a mundane and often error-prone task that is an expensive drain on financial resources. Unfortunately, spend management...
Read the ArticleCustom expense policies demand automated, but flexible, AI enforcement
Your organization is unique — and so are your expense policies. Expense leaders worldwide spend hours crafting finely honed policies that detail...
Read the Article5 reasons you need a crisis to drive transformation
There’s a saying that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. What it actually represents is an opportunity–and the space–for change that normally...
Read the Article5 ways to stop accounts payable leakage at scale with AI
The Accounts Payable (AP) team has several responsibilities; not only are they the gatekeeper of an organization’s precious funds, but they are also...
Read the Article9 business spend duplicates only AI can catch
What prevention methods does your company have in place to prevent duplicate spend? Most modern invoice automation systems can look out for two...
Read the ArticleExpand the scope of your finance transformation with the new AppZen Platform
The CFO Squeeze CFOs face never-ending pressure to cut costs, fund revenue growth, and maintain financial controls. And at the same time, they need...
Read the ArticleSunshine Act compliance: All you need to know
What is the Sunshine Act? Its full name is actually The Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA) and it was designed to boost transparency around the...
Read the ArticleThe implications of AI: How we've integrated ethics into our culture and decision-making
In October 2017, I attended a technical talk where hundreds of people gathered to learn about the future of artificial intelligence. The panelists...
Read the ArticleWhat could be lurking in your expense reports? Here are the craziest things flagged by AI
Employees who are unfamiliar with your company T&E policy may accidentally submit an out-of-policy expense occasionally. While there are certainly...
Read the ArticleWhere we go from here: 7 absolutely critical investments for building the AI platform for modern finance teams
Today we announced that we raised a $50 million series C round of funding, bringing our total investment to more than $100 million. We’re excited...
Read the Article7 ways AI can help you comply with policy and regulations
For a business, the consequences of non-compliance can be disastrous — including fines, lawsuits, and debarment. But it can be hard for busy finance...
Read the ArticleWhy you need visibility into invoices (and how AI can help you get it)
We’ve covered how having visibility into employee expense reports helps organizations catch errors, waste, and fraud, and streamline process so that...
Read the Article6 ways AI can help reduce business spend
There’s a lot that can go wrong in the typical organization’s spend audit process. Manually auditing vendor invoices and employee expense reports is...
Read the Article4 reasons you need AI in your finance department
Does your finance team still manage your T&E with Excel? Process invoices manually? Randomly select 10% of your expense reports to audit?
Read the ArticleHow AppZen applies self-driving car technology to reduce business spend
Computer vision is a widely growing field within artificial intelligence. Widely used applications include autonomous driving, social media face...
Read the ArticleStar Match: Going beyond the three-way match
If you’ve ever worked in purchasing, you’re likely familiar with the three-way match, which verifies the price and unit numbers across invoices,...
Read the ArticleTraining an AI platform: A product perspective
Traditional software development is fairly straightforward: The product team creates mock-ups and defines user flows, then engineering designs it and...
Read the ArticleBreaking the code: The women behind our AI
In the traditionally male-dominated engineering departments of Silicon Valley, AppZen’s R&D team is ahead of the curve. While only roughly 20% of...
Read the ArticleDear CFOs: Your peers told us what kinds of AI they’re investing in, and how they value projects
As part of our customer discovery process, we conducted in-depth interviews with more than a dozen enterprise CFOs about the innovation projects...
Read the ArticleThe future of AI: The jobs we want it to take
There’s a growing belief that artificial intelligence will take over the world one day. Although science fiction movies depict this as a real-life...
Read the ArticlePost-it notes, pet photos, and other silly “receipts” we’ve found
Imagine a scenario where you traveled for work and had an expensive dinner, but you lost your receipt. You want to get reimbursed for your meal, but...
Read the ArticleDear CFOs: 3 reasons your peers use AI to audit spend
My team and I have spent a ton of time interviewing customers and digging into our sales data to understand better whom we serve and why finance...
Read the ArticleOut with the old, in with the new: How AI and automation are changing the financial close
It would be an understatement to say that businesses aren’t run the way they used to be.
Read the ArticleAppZen Finance AI 101
The AppZen artificial intelligence platform uses a combination of deep learning, machine learning, and semantic modeling to comprise our artificial...
Read the ArticleWhat's the difference between RPA and AI?
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are often used interchangeably. This bucketing is unfortunate, since they mean very...
Read the ArticleProactive fraud detection: The future is AI (Part 2)
An astonishing 37% of companies still rely on managing their T&E with paper and Excel. Many of these companies may not realize they’re relying on the...
Read the ArticleWhy AI needs to be part of your business transformation
Amazon’s much anticipated launch into supermarket retailing is set to open, with the first store in Seattle already available to Amazon employees....
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