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Day: February 2, 2007

Partnering – a key difference between ebdex and its competitors

What came out clearly from my discussions with heads of our competitors is that ebdex is clearly very ambitious when it comes to partnering. ebdex’s strategy is to excel in three areas, these being: Understand the market better than anyone else Deliver a service better than anyone else In this process, manage an extensive partner network from product development, sales to operations with later addition of customer service The only significant movement I have seen within our competition is the development of hub alliance by Causeway Technologies, Burns e-Commerce and Asite. Well done guys. I know that hub alliance continues…

What has Manoj Ranaweera been up to this week?

I had the fortune to speak and/or meet number of ebdex’s competitors this week. These include Simon Fox (CEO of TBiConnect), Rhys Jones (CEO of Accountis), Philip Brown (CEO of Causeway) and Mike Gibbard (Chief Solutions Architect of Burns e-Commerce Solutions). I wish I can share what we discussed openly. But alas, I had to honour the confidentiality of each of the conversations I had. What is interesting to note is that: We all operate in the same industry Yet we have spent different budgets in developing our solutions – trust me, the difference from the lowest to the highest…

Bottomline Technologies adopts Oracle Fusion Middleware

One idea I recently entertained was to examine the possibility of adopting Oracle Fusion Middleware within ebdex Document Exchange for integration with Oracle, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, as well as using it for such functionality as business rule engine, mobility, etc. It seems I was not the only one having these thoughts. Recently, Bottomline Technologies announced adopting Oracle Fusion Middleware to enhance the integration with Oracle’s JD Edwards and Oracle E-Business Suite. And they are going after Oracle users (as was the intention of ebdex). Extracts from the announcement: “Oracle Fusion Middleware integration is a key initiative for Bottomline across…