November 2007

I missed Jason Busch’s presentation due to computer problems and thought of catching up on the live conversation taking place. Here is a transcript: Jason Busch: Hey guys … curious to hear what you thought I should have covered in my presentation, but did not Mark Perera: Jason great presentation, thank you very much for […]

I plan to attend Ariba’s “Spend Management Day” on 27 November 2007 in London. The event has been designed for Executives and Practitioners with providing practical and actionable information on to improve spend management initiatives including sharing best practices. You can find out more about here.  According to Kate Roe of Ariba (UK): “Although Ariba in the […]

I have been working on and off on an Analyst Report on OB10 independently. OB10 knows what I am doing but it is not sponsored by them, and therefore remains 100% independent. Most Analyst Reports are sponsored, and sometimes even co-written by the sponsors themselves, which guarantees immediate ROI for the Analyst. If the document […]

Imran Ali’s e-mail just reminded me that I have not written about BarcampLeeds, which I attended on Saturday. An event full of networking and presentations opportunities! I had a decent crowd for my presentation, which had two halves – first looking at pros and cons of Wikis – the production environment, and then introducing edocr […]

Do you upload documents to your web sites? If so, would you like to liven your web site by showing the thumbnails instead of the less attractive pdf icon? Then, please follow the following simple instructions: Upload the document to edocr Copy and paste the “thumbnail for your site” code Enjoy So, here is an […]

HansaWorld UK, a mid-range innovative accountancy software vendor has won the AccountancyAge Award for Mid-range Software Package of the Year for the second time. Above is the official press release courtesy of edocr, my favourite knowledge exchange. According to the press release:  “HansaWorld has recorded between 5% and 15% growth each year since 1995, and the […]

BarcampLeeds is almost there, yes it is on tomorrow. This will be my first barcamp and I am really looking forward to it. I have been told that it is an event where you focus less on sales and marketing, but more on open dialogue, perhaps around a common theme. Instead of talking about e-invoicing, I have […]

We have reached the half point of November today, and what better to do than share some of our traffic figures (from 1st to 14th November 07) so far: Hits 50,027 Unique visitors 44,940 Page views 126,802 New visitors 89.68% Reached 137 countries USA (58.57%) UK (9.41%) Canada (6.06%) Australia (2.09%) Germany (2.03%) Keywords EIPP […]

Recently I had a long conversation with Emanio, a vendor specialising in provision of EDI based products. I will cover the full story on another post with a proper introduction to Emanio. What came out is that whilst they believe EIPP is the future, they have not seen much evidence in terms of market penetration […]

Just following up from Will’s excellent post here, I came across a story from ioma, which speaks briefly about the importance of senior management buy-in for successfull EIPP project execution. Anyone who ever ran a project knows that people are the key in terms of successful delivery. Buy-in at the highest level is vital. A […]