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Day: October 11, 2006

Business Case for ebdex – revisiting all grounds

I have been revisiting all grounds recently. ebdex started because of the following compelling business case: 27 bn paper invoices are processed annually in Europe (Swiss Post) It costs around £9 to process an invoice (IOMA) – it cost UK government £75 to process an invoice – how much does it cost you? Document Exchanges can produce savings up to 90% (LogicaCMG) – We know achieving 50% is easier. This results in savings of £218bn (based on 90%) to European businesses. How much would you like to save? Let’s go out and get a portion of this business – sounded…

Largest IT Deals

Is dot.com 2.0 here? Well we call it by different names just to confuse the market, e.g. web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, xx 2.0. Some of the deals I know of: Google buying You Tube for $1.65bn in stock – $22 per visitor ebay buying Skype for $2.6bn News Corp buying Myspace for $580m – $10 per visitor Facebook in talks with Yahoo – $1bn – $67 per visitor What other silly money deals do you know of? Technorati Tags: Google, eBay, You Tube, Skype, Facebook, News Corp