Accounts Payable Process: Steps, Exceptions & Controls

Many invoice problems don't start in accounts payable. They start earlier, when someone buys without a purchase order or a delivery goes unrecorded. AP is simply where those gaps become visible, usually as an invoice that can't be paid. That's why it helps to see the accounts payable process end to end. It's how a business receives, checks, approves, pays, and records the bills it owes suppliers, whether those steps run by hand or through accounts payable automation.

How ThoughtSpot's Marketing Team Built an Agent to Segment Their Entire Database

Marketing teams spend more time waiting on ops tickets to segment their database than they do actually running campaigns. By the time the segmentation comes back, the brief has changed, the moment has moved on, and someone is already asking for a revision. In this clip from the Thought Tank: Marketing in the Age of Agents, ThoughtSpot SVP Marketing EMEA Katie Marcham introduces the agent her team built to change that. They call it Slicy McSliceface, and it does exactly what the name suggests.

Controlling the Uncontrollable: Bring FinOps discipline to AI spend

AI costs are unpredictable and behave nothing like traditional cloud spend. FinOps teams face new challenges: opaque model pricing, and hidden costs in places like prompt design and context length. In this session, our Head of AI, Prajakta, will show you how to bring FinOps discipline to AI costs: how to see them, attribute them, and optimize them. She’ll give you practical levers that can cut AI costs by 20 – 80%.

Best Sales & CRM Dashboard Software: 9 Tools Ranked

Most roundups of sales dashboard software rank features. The useful ranking question sits one level deeper, in your own stack. In Databox’s Time to Insight: What Are the Biggest Roadblocks to Actionable Data? survey, 75.68% of teams named their CRM as a primary reporting data source, and 73.13% of the same respondents named data spread across multiple sources as their biggest reporting challenge. Both numbers describe the same team.

Stitch Pricing: How Much Does Stitch Really Cost in 2026

Stitch Data's row-based pricing model appears affordable at first glance, but many organizations find their actual costs far exceed initial estimates once they scale. With the data integration market projected to grow from $17.58 billion in 2025 to $33.24 billion by 2030 at a 13.6% CAGR, understanding the true cost of your ELT platform is essential for informed budgeting and long-term planning.

New: Automate Recurring Analysis And Reporting With Routines

Performance analysis only happens when someone has the time to do it. Every team has performance reviews that need to happen on a regular cadence, whether that is reviewing channel performance each week or reporting to clients every month. The focus may change, but the work behind them is often very similar. Someone needs to understand what changed, why it changed, and whether anything needs attention. Then they need to turn those findings into an update and get it to the people who need it.

Introducing the New Replicate Source for Open Lakehouse

There's a conversation happening in a lot of data teams right now. It goes something like this: the lakehouse is clearly where things are heading, Apache Iceberg is becoming the format everyone wants to land in, and the AI use cases the business is asking for need clean, open, queryable data.

Jeff McMillan on How to Think About AI and Jobs

AI and jobs… the topic that’s top of mind for everyone, yet most organizations are asking the wrong questions. The conversation usually starts with cost cutting: how do we reduce headcount, automate repetitive tasks, trim the budget? Jeff McMillan, founder of McMillanAI, thinks that's the wrong frame entirely. He shares what the better questions are in this clip from The Data & AI Chief podcast.

Ep 95 | AI Agents Move Fast. Can Security Keep Up?

Your AI agent has credentials. Now, what happens when it goes off script? An agent can take action and change course before a traditional security review even begins. For Alex Bovee, identity is only the beginning of the security conversation. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller sits down with Alex Bovee, co-founder and CEO of C1 and longtime cybersecurity and identity leader, to explore how autonomous AI agents are changing enterprise security.