Esker has entered a strategic partnership with global consultancy Horváth to help large enterprises modernize complex finance operations and strengthen liquidity management. The collaboration brings together Esker’s AI-driven automation platform and Horváth’s deep expertise in transformation and performance management, offering organizations a unified approach to digital finance acceleration.
“Partnering with Horváth allows Esker to bring even more strategic value to our customers,” said Claire Valencony, Deputy Chief Revenue Officer at Esker. “By combining Esker’s deep automation expertise with Horváth’s strategic consulting knowledge, we help organizations bridge strategy and execution — driving confident, rapid and measurable transformation in finance and supply chain operations.”
The alliance aims to address a persistent challenge revealed in industry research: fewer than half of global organizations successfully tie digital transformation initiatives to measurable business results. By integrating Horváth’s process optimization capabilities with Esker’s automation suite, the partnership seeks to help companies improve working capital efficiency, shorten cycle times, and elevate overall financial performance.
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“Through this partnership, customers will benefit from a complete, end-to-end package that combines strategic consultancy with powerful, integrated solutions,” said Patrick Bley, Head of Alliances for DACH at Esker. He pointed out that the offering is very useful for businesses with fragmented or customized ERP systems. It makes modernizing finance and procurement operations easier.
The collaboration aims to optimize key workflows like sourcing, contract management, procurement, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and invoice delivery. These improvements seek to increase transparency, streamline operations, and ensure technology investments lead to real business results. The companies also released a joint white paper. It explores how intelligent automation and strategic process design can greatly enhance working capital metrics.
“At Horváth, we often see that standard ERP systems reach their limits when it comes to process automation, including AI enhancements, or when ERP environments become too fragmented,” said Stefan Maus, Partner at Horváth. “Collaborating with Esker allows us to offer clients flexible and pragmatic options to bridge these gaps and achieve faster, more transparent and sustainable process improvements, all without any customer-specific development within the ERP systems themselves.”
