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Day: June 13, 2007

My recent chat with Andrew Bartolini of Aberdeen Group

Andrew Bartolini of Aberdeen Group and I had a phone conversation on past Monday to discuss UK and global trends in EIPP (Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment). If you do not know, Aberdeen Group regularly carries out research in to number of subjects including sourcing, e-payables and supply chain finance to name a few. Their reports are normally sponsored by number of vendors, and vendors such as Xign, OB10 and Ariba regularly brief Aberdeen Group and other research companies such Forrester about their new products and solutions, market strategies and successes. Given that Aberdeen Group is based in the USA…

European Purchase-to-Pay Summit 2007 – a week after ExPP Summit

September 18 – 19, 2007 ·  Crown Plaza, Brussels, Belgium Why is that this event and ExPP Summit are held one week apart? Do the organisers not realise that they are splitting the audience in half? This always happens with mini events, but should not be the case for large European annual events. Or is this intentional? Competition is a good thing, but this, I am not so sure. There is not much valuable information available on the site at present, except that this year’s event will feature over 30 leading P2P case studies including contributions from Hertz Group, Dixons, EDF Energy and…