Day: July 17, 2007

Ryan Allis, CEO of iContact pinged me the other day to invite me to a party in Durham (USA) to celebrate closing of $5.35 million funding package from Updata Venture Partners and IDEA Fund Partners. How nice? Unfortunately, I hate to leave wet Manchester (UK) for no doubt sunny Durham. Ah! its time I do another mail shot using intelliContact, a product from iContact. Technorati Tags: Ryan Allis, iContact, intelliContact, Updata Venture Partners, IDEA Fund Partners

As a target, I try to blog at least once a day. It seems that I have not blogged for six days, which feels like a month for a blogger. Professional bloggers such as Dennis Howlett aims to get 6 posts out daily, of varying quality. Some are pure originals and others are inspired by articles read in the blogsphere or the traditional press including web sites. This seems to be my fourth blog post today, certainly trying to catch up for the lost time. Dennis Keeling reckons getting couple of posts a year is sufficient – he put it…

Having said how great Transcepta is with respect to helping the small guy, let’s quickly look at their accounts payable and accounts receivable products and services. Accounts Payable (A/P) & Accounts Receivable (A/R) Automation Once again, there are no surprises here with respect to Accounts Payable (A/P) integration. The target is the large company having an ERP system, i.e. your average Oracle (including PeopleSoft and JD Edwards) and SAP user with high transaction volumes and high number of suppliers (and customers).   However, its a different scenario at Accounts Receivable (A/R), where printer driver technology is used to extract data…

Differentiation Very rarely you find a company that wants to provide a value proposition for the small guy, especially in the e-invoicing and EIPP space. I believe Transcepta is one of these companies, who understands and has found a way to overcome the barriers faced by SME’s joining the e-invoicing evolution. ebdex also understood that without helping the small guy, the level of market penetration by e-invoicing and EIPP vendors with respect to paper will remain negligent. ebdex was about upsetting the status quo. It seems Transcepta is thinking in the same lines. Therefore bringing a breath of fresh air to…

You might question the relevance of this post to EIPP and Start Ups. This without a doubt falls into the category of “anything else of interest”. In fact, this is more of a note to myself than to you, as I use this blog as a reminder of people I met as well as information I want to find easily. The image below was taken at SAP SAPPHIRE 07 Vienna, and shows the product set of SAP’s Engineering, Construction and Operations (EC&O) Product Map. On July 1st 2007, Stefan Krauss joined SAP’s Industry Solutions Management for Discrete Industries, as Head…