{"id":3692952,"date":"2026-04-30T04:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/?p=3692952"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:18:08","slug":"boost-says-b2b-payments-need-answers-not-more-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/b2b-payments\/2026\/boost-says-b2b-payments-need-answers-not-more-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Boost Says B2B Payments Need Answers, Not More Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Watch more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.pymnts.com\/detail\/video\/6393506309112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What\u2019s Next in Payments With Boost Payment Solutions\u2019 Rinku Sharma<\/a><\/p><div\r\n\tid=\"article-paywall-overlay\"\r\n\tclass=\"d-none\"\r\n>\r\n\t<div id=\"article-paywall-content\" class=\"my-4\">\r\n\t\t\n<div class=\"wpcf7 no-js\" id=\"wpcf7-f2699550-o1\" lang=\"en-US\" dir=\"ltr\" data-wpcf7-id=\"2699550\">\n<div 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edition of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/series\/whats-next-in-payments\/\">What\u2019s Next in Payments<\/a>\u201d series, \u201cThe Data Game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moat is not having more data. The moat is about having the right data, knowing what questions you want to ask of that data, and building the infrastructure to act on those answers at speed,\u201d Sharma said.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is this shift more visible than in B2B payments, a sector historically defined by fragmentation, manual processes and limited visibility. But by connecting data across products, networks and workflows, firms that can harness the ecosystem\u2019s latent intelligence are finding themselves able to provide a coherent view of financial activity that informs strategy as much as execution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe companies that are winning today are not the ones who have waited for everything to be perfect, but the ones who have started building with what they have and iterated relentlessly,\u201d Sharma said.<\/p><div id=\"pymnt-2086310356\" class=\"pymnt-content pymnt-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 50px;\"><p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement: Scroll to Continue<\/p><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" id=\"dianomi_context_script\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dianomi.com\/js\/contextfeed.js\"><\/script> \r\n<div class=\"dianomi_context\" data-dianomi-context-id=\"4329\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Boost\u2019s own ambition, he added, is to unlock the ability of data to answer higher-order questions for clients, such as where working capital risks are emerging, how supplier networks behave and where performance can be optimized.<\/p>\n<h2>From Data Exhaust to Intelligence Layer<\/h2>\n<p>In consumer payments, innovation is often measured in visible touchpoints: checkout speed, interface design or approval rates. B2B payments operate differently. The \u201cexperience\u201d is embedded deep within enterprise systems such as ERP platforms, accounts payable workflows, treasury infrastructure and more, making it both less visible and historically slower to evolve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re doing now is building the analytical layer that turns these signals into intelligence,\u201d Sharma said. The goal is not retrospective reporting, but operational impact, \u201cfaster decisions, smarter interchange optimization, and better outcomes for our buyers and suppliers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because as industries digitize, competitive advantage is being shifted away from ownership of infrastructure toward ownership of insight.<\/p>\n<p>Operating at the intersection of buyers, suppliers and card networks, Boost processes commercial card transactions across thousands of relationships in more than 180 countries. That vantage point yields a dataset no single participant could assemble independently, but raw visibility is only the starting point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not magic,\u201d Sharma said. \u201cIt\u2019s a result of data that is extracted from payments and about the supplier\u2019s systems being understood and acted upon automatically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The impact can be tangible. Suppliers joining a modern payments network, Sharma said, increasingly receive funds automatically, accompanied by clean, structured remittance data in their preferred formats.<\/p>\n<p>The elimination of manual reconciliation is not the result of a single feature, but of coordinated intelligence across systems capable of understanding supplier preferences, buyer workflows and transaction context simultaneously.<\/p>\n<h2>AI Collapses Distance Between Signal and Action<\/h2>\n<p>Data intelligence\u2019s impact across B2B is also getting a concurrent boost from artificial intelligence, which is compressing the time, cost and complexity required to extract value from data.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma framed AI\u2019s impact along three dimensions: speed, cost and quality, and argued that its real power lies in how those forces compound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransaction decisions that were happening historically in manual review queues or overnight batch jobs are now happening in milliseconds,\u201d he said, noting that for large-scale B2B payments, that means parsing unstructured data, optimizing interchange and delivering enriched remittance information instantaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The reason this is now possible is that cost dynamics have shifted just as dramatically. What previously required \u201can entire team of data scientists running and building ML [machine learning] models at scale\u201d \u2014 along with significant compute investment \u2014 can now be deployed \u201cin days and weeks without that huge upfront investment,\u201d Sharma said.<\/p>\n<p>But it is in quality where AI introduces the most profound change. Traditional systems have relied on predefined rules, inherently limited by what engineers anticipate. Machine learning, by contrast, surfaces patterns that were never explicitly encoded, enabling detection of anomalies and opportunities that would otherwise remain invisible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks for patterns that it has never been coded for,\u201d Sharma said.<\/p>\n<p>The result is not simply better automation, but a fundamental expansion of what organizations can perceive and therefore act upon. By analyzing cash flow patterns, payment velocity and network relationships, companies can make faster, more precise decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat real-time transaction data is doing is enabling us to have a forward-looking assessment,\u201d Sharma said. \u201cThe question used to be what happened. Now the question is, what should we do about it right now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In that sense, the future of data-driven advantage may be less about ownership than orchestration. Companies that can unify disparate signals, interpret them in real time and act with clarity may define the next generation of competitive moats.<\/p>\n<p>For Boost, that means evolving beyond payments infrastructure into what Sharma described as \u201cthe intelligence layer in B2B commercial payments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a supplier asks why a transaction was routed in a certain way, they deserve an answer,\u201d he said. \u201cThe companies pulling ahead are using AI and payments as a trust-building and growth engine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For all PYMNTS B2B coverage, subscribe to the daily <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/subscribe\/\">B2B Newsletter<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>\r\n\twindow.pymntsAllowedArticleCount = 2;\r\n\twindow.pymntsPostID = 3692952;\r\n<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch more: What\u2019s Next in Payments With Boost Payment Solutions\u2019 Rinku Sharma Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content \u2014 no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. 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