[Music] hi everyone mark brousseau here people can't seem to get enough of treasure hunting these days whether it's diving off the coast of the bahamas for sunken pirate ships combing the deserts of utah for train cars full of civil war gold or digging on an island in nova scotia for the holy grail people are captivated by the idea of an earthing precious treasure the good news for accounts payable departments is that they sit on a treasure all their own a treasure trove of data that is the information that flows through accounts payable departments has tremendous value to people across the enterprise cfos can use ap data to gauge the financial health of the business controllers can use ap data to ensure that risk mitigation measures are in place procurement can use ap data to be able to understand spend by business unit by category or even by supplier treasury can use ap data to find opportunities to optimize payments to suppliers and of course ap leaders can use their data to be able to ensure that their operations are flowing smoothly the key though to getting at this information isn't to use a pickaxe or a shovel it's to use automation to find solutions that allow you to aggregate all data onto a single platform extract and validate that information and make it readily available to the people who need it when they need it and where they need it while ap data may not be as exciting as pirate plunder it has a value all of its own