March 2007

In December 2005, I reported the acquisition of Harbor Payments by American Express. At the time, American Express claimed that Harbor technology would become the basis of its Source-to-Settle (S2S) e-purchasing system, driving greater levels of cost savings while improving control and compliance requirements across its customer base. Today, American Express (Amex) announced further information […]

I live in Manchester (well actually in Greater Manchester, a place called Cheadle Hulme in Stockport). Having lived in Sri Lanka (first 19 years), Brighton (3 yrs), Leicester (1 yr – thank god for that), Newcastle Upon Tyne (5 yrs), Abu Dhabi (nearly 4 yrs) and now Manchester (over 6 yrs), I feel at home […]

http://manojranaweera.wordpress.com (last posted on 29/01/07) continues to be more popular than http://www.manojranaweera.com. Here is a comparison of the two blogs: WordPress hosted Hits: 16,082 Google page rankings: 5  Technorati rankings: Rank: 129,676 (104 links from 31 blogs) Self-hosted (somewhere on earth) Hits:  14,841 Google page rankings: 0 Technorati rankings:  Rank: 462,695 (15 links from 9 […]

Here is a roundup of news from vendors during the month of February 2007: Accountis: Accountis Supports 3rd European EXPP Summit Rapid European EIPP growth will continue in 2007 “We don’t do anything electronically” Supplier E-Invoicing Survey New XML.org site for ebXML Ariba: Ariba Launches SupplyWatch Roadshow Series Ariba Kicks Off LIVE 2007 Global Conference […]

Here are the slides I used in my speech to MBA students at Manchester Business School today. Tags: entrepreneurship, startup, MBA, Manchester Business School, MBS, ebdex

Tags: Microsoft, blue monster, Hugh Macleod, grapingvoid