Invoice Data Capture for SAP

E-invoicing has many benefits for both suppliers and buyers - it’s also environmentally friendly. As businesses across the world commit to improved sustainability pledges following discussions around environmental concerns at...

As the logistics industry continues to grow and evolve, existing practices and processes need to change to take advantage of the benefits that new technology can bring to your business. Outdated document receipt and OCR...

With the need for automation in business processes growing rapidly, systems requiring manual input are slowly becoming a thing of the past. We are now seeing the introduction of technologies like RPA paired with intelligent...

Latin American countries such as Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina are spearheading the fight against piracy and fraud by implementing several government-based checks and balances in all their e-commerce transactions. These...

Billers have lots of invoice choices - paper shouldn't be one of them A traditional paper-based purchase invoice process consists of multiple manual activities: the supplier raises the invoice in their finance application;...

The direct and indirect costs of traditional manual processing are increasingly becoming a burden to large businesses.The benefits to invoice automation, however, go beyond cost reduction alone. Automating the full invoice...

Invoice processing takes up valuable time and money within your business. Errors in the invoicing process also make your business appear more inefficient to your suppliers. Repeated errors raise even more red flags for your...

Can we really pass on the responsibility of important parts of our lives onto Artificial Intelligence neural networks? Can we really treat these things like human advisors, or shouldn’t we rather consider them like the oracles...

Ineffective management of the accounts payable process can negatively impact business operations and controls, resulting in increased transaction expenses for the business.

  Deriving accurate insight from line-level data is the foundation for effective decision-making. So, if your logistics firm is looking to get ahead of the competition, you’ll need to shift your mindset and operations towards...

The year 2020 was one of disruption and global change. After a few months in early 2020 of hearing the word ‘Coronavirus’ here and there, it didn’t seem long before it was very much at the forefront of all of our lives.  

  Is your Accounts Payable process slow, error-prone and costing too much? Then read on! Dealing with invoices is a laborious, time-consuming process. Invoice receipt, data capture and then matching the invoice to a purchase...

In the final chapter of his 5-part blog post on artificial intelligence, Richard Develyn, CloudTrade CTO, compares and contrasts machine reasoning and human intuition. He concludes his examination of AI explaining how...

In the penultimate chapter of his 5-part blog post on artificial intelligence, Richard Develyn, CloudTrade CTO, emphasizes the importance of hybrid problem-solving applications where human intelligence and AI functionality are...

In this blog CloudTrade’s CEO, David Cocks, considers the concept of measurement of results. Our wide exposure to government and media analysis of Covid-testing methodology has inspired him to consider the similarities between...

In the third chapter of his 5-part blog post on artificial intelligence, Richard Develyn, CloudTrade CTO, talks us through learning by example and how this results in bias, whether the learning has been done by a human or by a...

Watch the podcast here, if you’d prefer to read about what was discussed, please read on. Steve Britton, Director of Sales, talks to CloudTrade’s Alliance Director Jeremy Phillips about finance transformation and its impact on...

Watch the podcast here, if you’d prefer to read about what was discussed, please read on. Steve Britton, Director of Sales, talks to CloudTrade Alliance Director Stewart Jacobsen about whether organizations looking to automate...

Watch the podcast here, if you’d prefer to read about what was discussed, please read on. Steve Britton, Director of Sales, talks to CloudTrade’s Vice President of North America, Roger Hatfield, on the topic of business...

Watch the podcast here, if you’d prefer to read about what was discussed, please read on. Steve Britton, Director of Sales, talks to Sarah Pritchards about her role as CloudTrade's Marketing Manager. She describes how she uses...

In the second chapter of his 5-part blog post on artificial intelligence, Richard Develyn, CloudTrade CTO, considers the meaning of intelligence. Does having a high IQ mean you are clever?

Watch the podcast here, if you’d prefer to read about what was discussed, please read on. In the sixth episode of the CTTV podcast Steve Rogers, CFO, discusses with Steve Britton, Director of Sales, the options around trade...

Watch the podcast here, if you’d prefer to read about what was discussed, please read on. In the fifth episode of CloudTrade's CTTV podcast, Richard Craig, Chief Operating Officer, talks with Steve Britton, Director of Sales, ...

In his latest blog post, Richard Develyn, CloudTrade CTO, kicks off his grand opus with this first chapter of five connected explorations into the world of artificial intelligence. Here he examines the nature of thinking and...

Watch the podcast here, if you’d prefer to read about what was discussed, please read on . In their latest CloudTrade podcast, Richard Develyn, CTO, and Steve Britton, Director of EMEA Sales,  discuss the importance of...

The third episode in CloudTrade's CTTV podcast, as part of the celebrations here at CloudTrade for IWD, Amee Patel, Head of Operations, talks with Steve Britton, Director of Sales, on women in tech. Watch the podcast here, if...

To celebrate International Women’s Day this year, Head of Operations, Amee Patel, has interviewed some of the women from each department here at CloudTrade to recognize and celebrate the work they are doing and the successes...

To celebrate International Women’s Day this year, Head of Operations, Amee Patel, has interviewed some of the women from each department here at CloudTrade to recognize and celebrate the work they are doing and the successes...

To celebrate International Women’s Day this year, Head of Operations, Amee Patel, has interviewed some of the women from each department here at CloudTrade to recognize and celebrate the work they are doing and the successes...

To celebrate International Women’s Day this year, Head of Operations, Amee Patel, has interviewed some of the women from each department at CloudTrade to recognize and celebrate their work and successes.

To celebrate International Women’s Day this year, Head of Operations, Amee Patel, has interviewed some of the women from each department at CloudTrade to recognize and celebrate their work and successes.

Watch the podcast here, if you’d prefer to read about what was discussed, please read on. In their latest CloudTrade podcast, David Cocks, CEO, and Steve Britton, Director of EMEA Sales, debate the concept of “trusted data”...

Like any software-based technology service, CloudTrade continually looks to improve its technical platform, increase scalability and support technical stability as the company continues to grow in customer numbers and document...

Watch the podcast here, if you’d prefer to read about what was discussed, please read on. David Cocks, CloudTrade CEO and Founder, talks with Steve Britton, Director of Sales, about why Executives have an automation agenda and...

In this blog post, CTO Richard Develyn unpicks the confusion surrounding the significance of the various levels of application interfacing. He outlines how APIs and data-stream format are not as complex an issue as many people...

What is a template in the world of CloudTrade automated data capture? In this blog post, Richard Develyn, CloudTrade CTO, explains how a template is something much more flexible than you might imagine. Secondly, he describes...

In this blog post, Richard Develyn CTO, explores what true service looks like with a software solution and if the SaaS model is truly all it’s cracked up to be. If you went into a high-class restaurant and ordered yourself a...

Is Robotic Processing Automation (RPA) science fiction or science fact? Does it have a part to play in the CloudTrade story? In this blog post, the third in his trilogy explaining the CloudTrade data-capture solution, Richard...

Is there a difference between systems based on AI and solutions using neural networks? And, if so, which of these approaches lies at the root of the CloudTrade data-extraction service? In this blog post, the second in a...

As the new year begins, it is an ideal time to reflect on the previous year and what we learnt during this time. As we all know, 2020 was a bit of a strange year, but CloudTrade still managed to grow and hire more colleagues,...

CloudTrade was established in 2009 in the UK, and the service is now available worldwide. Global customers expect geographic local representation which is provided through our wide network of partners. They have expertise in...

Can a technical service really be 100% reliable? In this blog post, Richard Develyn, CloudTrade CTO, with a nod to Heisenberg, looks at what is meant by 100% accuracy in the world of computers. He discusses the shortcomings of...

When faced with today’s significant challenges, resilience is key. Steve Britton, CloudTrade Director of EMEA Sales, shares here in the blog post his passion for motorsport, and explains how the verve and determination seen on...

When looking at data capture solutions, the term OCR often pops up. A technology that has been around for years, it is often the ‘go-to’ for companies looking to automate their data capture. In this blog post, Richard...

When looking at data capture solutions, the term OCR often pops up. A technology that has been around for years, it is often the ‘go-to’ for companies looking to automate their data capture. In this blog post, the first in a...

Making the right choice when looking at the technological solutions to solve your business problems has always been an issue. Too much commitment, too greater system change, perhaps too greater a cost – but what if you could...

National Geographic tells us that the Giraffe has the longest tail of any land mammal – a Giraffes tail can measure up to 2.4m (apparently).

  I know, its contentious, but I’ve said it. Logistics as an industry needs to change. I’ve met far too many businesses in this industry that are still using the processes and systems that were put in 20 years ago, that...

There has been a huge amount written about the benefits of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and probably as many column inches dedicated to the challenges and pitfalls. In this article and our upcoming webinar, we explore the...

  Richard Hooper, Head of Systems, explains how CloudTrade upgraded its software environment to cope with increased demand and some of the problems solved along the way.

Reading documents may not be rocket science, but computers struggle to do what humans find simple. Is technology finally able to read documents in the same way as humans?

With the world slowly putting itself into self-isolation, never has it been more evident that digitisation of your business practices enables increased flexibility in where your team works and helping to keep it ‘open as...

Well, not quite yet… But we’re getting there! Here Amee Patel, Operations Manager, discusses some of the challenges of being a woman in a male-dominated industry and how CloudTrade has changed our practices to encourage female...

Ever since Schwarzenegger told a desk Sargent that he’d be back and then was back 5 mins later crashing through the wall of police station, the world has been in love with the idea of AI.

Big changes are coming to the e-invoicing market, thanks to EU directive 2014/55/EU. Public sector organisations in Europe must be able to receive and process EU compliant e-invoices from their suppliers by April 18th 2020, at...