Day: June 17, 2007

According to Susan Davies of Accountis, Brian Thumwood, e-billing Programme Manager Europe of DHL will deliver a speech titled “Delivering e-invoicing across europe” at the ExPP Summit on 11th September, covering  DHL, background, strategy and approach. Current status and plans. Issues faced and how these have been overcome. Opportunities. As far as I understand, DHL is Accountis’ most important client. DHL is expected to help Accountis become an European player. Speech will no doubt be interesting, and I for one, look forward to hearing it. Accountis has also announced that London Southend Airport has become the latest customer to join Accountis BACSActive-IP…

As planned, NW StartUp 2.0 event took place on 14th June 2007 at KPMG Manchester. Both Sam Sethi and Alain Falys were unable to attend due to personal and business reasons respectively. This did not have a significant impact on the outcome of the event, as Ajaz Ahmed and David Ingram easily filled the vacuum created by the two missing speakers. This also meant an early night for David Thomas, who was ready to party with Sam till the morning. 44 people registered to attend, including the speakers and organisers. On the day, we had 25 present, a mere 57% of those…

Just as humans go through mid-life crises from time to time, so do blogs – at least I am convinced! This blog could sit in the centre of everything I do with respect to professional life (i.e. excluding family life). I only came to this realisation yesterday (it should have been obvious, I know) after conversations with PhilB and AnishK. So I spent last night and tonight changing the theme of the blog. The work is not yet complete, but I am pleased with the outcome so far – I know it can be further improved. It took me a considerable amount…