Month: February 2007

If you disagree with the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy, you have one more day left to register your disagreement. The e-Petition can be accessed through here. The site has so far obtained 1,605,764 signatures. Do take a minute to view some hilarious e-petitions, e.g. Send Chris Hedley to Outer Mongolia until he has recovered from the plague. Fortunately, this one was rejected as it was outside the remit or powers of the Prime Minister and Government. Update 1: If you are interested in seen analysis of the traffic from Hitwise to above petition, please visit here. Tags:…

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) this month launched a new e-Tendering and planning service to assist businesses compete for up to 2,000 contracts. ODA Chief Executive David Higgins said: "The London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games can be a showcase for world class business as well as sporting performance. We want to ensure businesses can see the opportunities in advance so they can prepare to bid. We also want to make the contracting process straightforward, consistent and simple." The website identifies current, future and past opportunities in addition to FAQs. Once again, do share any information you have on…

Remember these two guys? They are going from strength to strength. They reported a triple whammy recently, i.e. new website, new release and coverage on vecosys by Sam Sethi. I have been a user of Yuuguu from almost the beginning. Sam does a good coverage of the product, so I will not repeat it. About the new website: Great strap line: See together: Be together. It would be interesting to hear how this came about. It makes perfect sense – makes the proposition very clear – catchy. Anish/Phil make sure you protect it. Website is structured better – blog is…

According to computing magazine, Accenture has beaten BT Global Services, IBM and LogicaCMG to win the lucrative contract to run the back-office systems of the The London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Locog). Accenture will integrate Locog’s systems and services to create a platform which will drive the planning of the games. The integrated system will provide a single repository for all new and recorded data used in the planning process of the London Games across functions including finance, accounting, facilities, ticket allocation, scheduling, personnel and procurement. The deal will not cover the Games’ time operating systems…

I had the pleasure to meet recently a number of individuals who run various software communities in the North West of England. The gathering was organised under the auspicious of Manchester Digital Development Agency. To my amazement, the North West has number of mature software communities who meets on regular basis. The communities represented included: Manchester Digital – was represented by council members Mike Ryan (of Idaho Technology Consultants) and Shaun Fensom (of Poptel). Manchester Digital actively promotes Manchester’s digital business sector, especially to attract business and inward investment from the UK and wider world. It also runs the "big…

I just got home from attending my first Geekup event in Manchester. GeekUp is a growing community of web designers, web developers, and other web-minded folk from the North West who meet up in Manchester to discuss the latest industry news, share ideas and spread a little knowledge. Familiar figures who attended included Anish Kapoor, CEO of Yuuguu in addition to Andrew Disley and Daniel Morris who organise the Geekup events. It was attended by about 20 technology enthusiasts and covered two topics: Widgets on Apple Mac by Stuart Frisby of 36 Degrees and Wdgty. I have recently been playing…

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…

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…

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…

WTF = Where’s the Fire? – According to Technorati (a new feature): Ever wonder why something is sooooo popular? Why are the hot topics hot? WTFs explain the buzz around people, things, and events. Who writes these WTFs? You do! Anyone can write one on any topic, and everyone can vote for the best explanations. The ones with the most votes rise up and the dreck sinks. Let millions of other people benefit from your genius… no blog required Some of today’s WTFs EIPP (1 blurb) amazon (1 blurb) Search Engines (2 blurbs) ebay (1 blurb) Guitar Chords (1 blurb)…