Author Archives: Matthew Dragiff

Health Care EFT Standards – Part 2

Matthew Dragiff Vice President, Product Management, SunGard’s AvantGard In-Band vs. Out-of-Band Remittance Delivery… In Part I of my Understanding Healthcare EFT standards blog, I identified several major obstacles for health care providers to adopt EFT (electronic funds transfer) and ERA (electronic remittance … Continue reading

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Understanding Health Care EFT Standards

Matthew Dragiff Vice President, Product Management SunGard’s AvantGard Brief History On March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law.  Section 1104 of the PPACA requires the adoption of operating rules for health care … Continue reading

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Easily Calculate the ROI of Migrating Checks to Electronic Payments

Matthew Dragiff                                                                                                                             Vice President, Product Management                                                                               SunGard AvantGard Payment Services Check printing is expensive. It is time consuming, labor intensive, and comes with the added costs associated with paper stock, ink, and postage. There is no doubt that migrating to … Continue reading

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Tips for Selecting an Integrated Payments Platform

Matthew Dragiff                                                                                                                             Vice President, Product Management                                                                                     SunGard AvantGard Payment Services In my recent blog article, “Why Outsource B2B ePayment Adoption?”, I conveyed the results from a recent SunGard study around B2B ePayments and why more and more organizations are opting … Continue reading

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Why Outsource B2B ePayment Adoption?

Matthew Dragiff                                                                                                                                    Vice President, Product Management                                                                                     SunGard AvantGard SunGard recently conducted a study to better understand how corporations were addressing the various challenges around ePayment adoption and the migration to ACH and virtual cards.

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B2B Payments: Shifting Potential Liability

Matthew Dragiff Vice President, Product Management SunGard AvantGard There are a lot of things that keep chief security executives up at night including disasters, theft of intellectual property, budgets, compliance, training and securing mobile devices. Added to this list is … Continue reading

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Virtual Card Programs Part II – How Corporations Use Them to Earn Revenue

Matthew Dragiff Vice President, Product Management SunGard AvantGard Payment Services In Part I of my virtual card blog series I described the nature of a virtual card program. In part II, I will describe how corporations can use virtual card … Continue reading

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The Role of Vendor Enrollment in B2B ePayments Adoption

Matthew Dragiff Vice President, Product Management SunGard AvantGard Payment Services I attend many payments industry conferences and meet with many payments professionals, and I continually hear the same theme around vendor enrollment, also referred to as vendor enablement or vendor … Continue reading

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Top 5 A/P Trends for 2012

The current economic climate is forcing companies to pursue lean operations as strongly as ever.  It’s a message that we hear at SunGard, and that you may hear from your employer as well.  Lean operations are driven by the understanding … Continue reading

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Is “Same-Day ACH” In Our Near Future?

NACHA, the Electronic Payments Association, is the organization that manages the development, administration and governance of the ACH Network.  They recently proposed the Expedited Processing and Settlement (EPS) amendment to the NACHA Operating Rules (“Rules”) that would enable ACH entries to be … Continue reading

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