Manoj Ranaweera

I attended the Project Sahara kick off meeting held at Sheffield Halam University last Saturday.    The concept was put together by Lee Strafford, Founder and ex-CEO of plus.net with the support from his fellow team mate Marco Potesta and Ian Spence, who Lee has worked with in the past. Having sold Plus.Net to BT and then getting […]

OpenCoffee Manchester 6th event took place yesterday at the usual venue. Here are three stories: Paul Robinson of Vagueware – Paul has been developing Vagueware for number of months (feel like years) whilst competition is getting products out to the market. After much debate, I hope I convinced Paul to release Vagueware, which will now be available […]

I attended the Second Chance Tuesday run by Judith Clegg and Michael Smith at Royal College of Physicians last night in London. A superb networking event except for poor catering. Then again, I set the bar high with NW StartUp 2.0, which any event organiser will find hard to beat. Northerners are much better at […]

The news of acquisition of Digital Vision Technologies by BasWare was broken to me at the ExPP Summit. Apologies for taking so long to write about it. Better late than never though. Digital Vision based in Northwich, Cheshire is a system integrator who specialises in accounts payable automation. Its solutions are based on Kofax’s Ascent, […]

  Above is a single page outlining the Vendor Advisory and Analysis services offered by ebdex. The second document below captures pricing guidelines for services rendered   Both documents have been uploaded to edocr for interactivity. Let us know what you think. Technorati Tags: ebdex, edocr, e-invoicing, eipp, supply chain finance

    Now, don’t get too excited! There will not be a formal announcement nor you would see TCS mentioned on ebdex’s website, or ebdex mentioned on TCS’s website. But we have reached a verbal agreement today to work together. The actual proposition has to be worked out and joint targets identified. This further strengthen my […]

I am proud to announce that the next NW StartUp 2.0 event will be held on 17 Jan 2008 at KPMG Manchester. The event details were published last night with one confirmed speaker. Without a doubt, it will be better than the 4th event held yesterday. Why? Simply, I am gaining confidence and experience. In […]

It’s with regret to inform that Billa will not be speaking tonight at NW StartUp 2.0 event due to a logistical nightmare. He has however confirmed his desire to speak at the next event in January, which hopefully will be better organised. I was unable to give much notice for this event due to last […]

Today, we had the opportunity to host Jeff Barr of Amazon AWS at Daresbury Innovation Centre. Here is the proof:   Jeff Barr and Manoj Ranaweera Phil Blything of Glow New Media who runs OpenCoffee Liverpool, Jeff Barr and Manoj Ranaweera. Jeff was kind enough to give an understanding to Amazon AWS, both in terms […]

The 3rd ExPP Summit was held on 10th and 11th of September at Millenium Glocester Hotel in London. I attended both days as a guest of Bruno Koch of Billentis. Bruno who organised the event with Johannes von Mulert of Vereon AG is to be congratulated for hosting an excellent gathering of European e-invoicing community. […]