I’ve recently been reading Atomic Habits by James Clear and have started implementing some of his suggestions straight away. Two concepts that resonate particularly well with me are habit stacking and implementation intentions. I’ve always leaned towards being a morning person, and I’ve come to realise how crucial those early hours are to my productivity… Read More »Building Habits: Stacking Success in the Morning
Yesterday I delivered the first of my seminars at the financeSHOWCASE in Birmingham titled ‘Automating Finance: Robots in Reconciliation’. You can move through the presentation above using the arrow keys on your keyboard.
Different vertical sectors come with their own unique requirements. In this post, we explore how large language models (LLMs) can play a transformative role in education settings by streamlining the Purchase-to-Pay process. The Purchase-to-Pay journey often begins with a requisition, where users raise requests for purchases. Before these requests can be approved and converted into… Read More »Streamlining Purchase-to-Pay in Education: Simplifying Nominal Coding with Large Language Models
At Spectrum, we’ve carved out particular niches in delivering complex accounts payable solutions. We’ve achieved significant success in vertical markets such as distribution, including the food and clothing sectors. One of the key complexities in these industries is managing Units of Measure (UOM). Orders are often raised with quantities and prices that differ from what… Read More »Simplifying Accounts Payable: Tackling Unit of Measure Challenges in Distribution
In the past 12–18 months, there’s been an explosion in intelligent document processing (IDP) tools, each claiming to have the best model for capturing data from semi-structured documents, like invoices. Every tool is keen to assert its model is the strongest and most trainable. I’ve tested quite a few, and there are some excellent cloud-native… Read More »Navigating Complex Invoices: Advanced Techniques for Intelligent Document Processing
Recently, I’ve been bench testing our IDP tool of choice, ABBYY FlexiCapture/Vantage, against other competitor products. At Spectrum, we’re developing a cloud-native Accounts Payable Automation tool, and as the Product Owner, I wanted to ensure that we are using the optimal tool for extracting data from incoming invoices. Traditionally, we’ve used FlexiCapture, but with a… Read More »Optimising Invoice Data Extraction: Benchmarking ABBYY Vantage for Enhanced Touchless Processing