For Business Process & Applications Professionals (Length: 19 pages)

October 22, 2007 (updated January 28, 2008)

The EIPP Market Is Ripe For Consolidation

Demand For Applications To Streamline Buy-Side Invoice-To-Pay Processes Will Continue To Grow Rapidly

This is the fourth document in the "ePurchasing Market" series.

by Duncan Jones

with Sharyn Leaver, Andrew Bartels, Antonin Shanahan


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Most invoices start life in order management applications and end up in accounts payable (AP) products, yet almost all must first become paper, processed by expensive, slow, and error-prone human beings. AP Electronic Invoice Presentment and Processing (EIPP) products automate the submission and processing of invoices and streamline the supporting manual processes such as discrepancy resolution. The EIPP market is fast-growing — 33% CAGR from 2003 to 2008 — but fragmented, with 13 different vendors having 1% or more market share. Moreover, most vendors address a market subset only. Significant market consolidation will occur over the next two to three years, which will fuel continuing growth at the current rate. By 2010, most enterprises will have adopted EIPP, and all business-to-business suppliers will be able to support it.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemEnterprises Still Rely On An Obsolete Invoice-To-Pay Solution: People

itemEIPP Products Automate The Invoice-To-Pay Process

itemThe AP-EIPP Market Is Growing Rapidly But Is Still Fragmented

itemFive Categories Of Software Vendors Sell In The EIPP Space

itemMarket Consolidation Will Drive Continuing Growth Levels

recommendations

itemImplement An AP-EIPP Solution That All Your Suppliers Can Use

WHAT IT MEANS

itemEIPP Will Reach The Tipping Point For Mass Adoption By 2010

alternative view

itemAP Clerks Aren't Obsolete Just Yet

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester interviewed 15 vendor companies, including: 170 Systems, Ariba, BasWare, Bottomline Technologies, b-process, Deskom, Direct Insite, Harbor Payments, Kofax, OB10, Open Text, Oracle, SAP, TradeCard, and Xign.

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itemThe Forrester Wave™: Accounts Payable EIPP, Q3 2005

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itemThe Future Of EIPP: Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable Approaches Converge

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Analyst: Duncan Jones
Technology: Financial Management, Packaged Applications, Sourcing & Procurement, Sourcing & Procurement Applications
Industry: Financial Services, Financial Services Technologies, Online Financial Products & Services
Special Feature: Forecasts
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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