Tech News: Tools for an extended workforce

ADP has added new features to its WorkMarket platform to help companies manage freelancers, contractors and contingent workers, including new analytics dashboards for tracking key metrics, forecasting staffing needs, and more. It also offers AI functions to help identify workers and verify their credentials, a geographic heat maps to check the going rates for services the locations of workers across the country, and the ability to organize workers into simple groups for easier management. It has apps for both iOS and Android, and finally — as you'd expect from ADP — it helps companies pay their extended workforces more easily and efficiently.

A number of software companies released reports on different financial, economic and management topics:

• Financial close software solution provider BlackLine Inc. released a survey on the skills gaps that CFOs worry may be holding back their growth; the company put out a white paper on the results, as well as infographics on the barriers to recruiting and retention and must-have skills for future finance and accounting leaders.
• Financial software developer Wave released "The Wave Report on Getting Paid 2021," on how microsbusinesses get paid and how they can improve their cash flow.
• Invoiced and PaymentsNext released "The State of B2B Payment Acceptance," which revealed, among other things, that 59% of finance and accounting professionals at business-to-business companies reject the idea of accepting cryptocurrencies as payment.

AP and payment automation solution provider MineralTree launched Supplier Central, a self-service portal for suppliers who do business with MineralTree customers, giving them a central view of payments and invoices, and relieving MineralTree users of having to maintain the suppliers' payment information.