Manoj Ranaweera

One of my regular readers, who happened to be a competitor to PrimeRevenue pinged me recently to enquire about my views on the recent announcement of partnership between PrimeRevenue and Morgan Stanley. Before I give my viewpoint, for consistency, I believe it is useful to first introduce the company in here. PrimeRevenue is a leading […]

Here are the most popular keywords used by visitors to my blog from 21/01/07 to 06/08/07. EIPP 352 OB10 267 SAP 141 American Express 129 e-invoicing 124 Ariba 103 Causeway 67 Oracle 66 Harbor 65 Abbey 60 Bottomline 49 Xign 48 Burns 48 JP Morgan 41 Accountis 30 Basware 19 Transcepta 16 Deskom 13 Albany […]

I have been ranting about EIPP for 16 months now. Perhaps worth listening to few other folks about what they have to say about my favourite subject: Michael Lamoureux of Sourcing Innovation Ariba + Orbian = ? Increase Competitiveness using Supply Chain Finance The Importance of Supply Chain Finance Technology The Supply Chain Finance Movement […]

I have been looking for an opportunity to use these three pictures I took of James when we both attended SAP Sapphire 07 in Vienna in May 07. James is a cool chap well respected in the software industry for his no-nonsense vendor analysis. So, why am I talking about James now? I am in […]

So what is the general plan after Causeway? Ideally, I like to spend 50% on fee earning work and the remainder on projects. So what are these projects? edocr – we will soon be looking for 100 volunteers to test the alpha version. If you are interested in helping us, please register your interest at […]

My current contract with Causeway Technologies will soon come to an end. By then, I would have spent four months with Causeway’s Tradex, asking awkward questions and getting people out of the comfort zone. Tradex now has a tactical team as well as a strategic team. The tactical team is led by Dave Gilchrist, Managing […]

Whilst there has been much talk, I believe Abbey is the second company to offer a supply chain finance solution in the UK after GMAC Commercial Finance, which uses Deskom. Between the two propositions, I believe Abbey has the best chance of making an impact. I have not heard or seen much publicity of Deskom and GMAC’s […]

  Congratulations to Causeway Technologies for becoming the No. 1 software house in the UK Construction industry with the acquisition of Elstree Computing Ltd (ECL). According to Phil Brown, Causeway has achieved No. 1 position in three fronts, these being: headcount (circa 130), revenues (pro-forma £13m) and customers (over 2000). With this acquisition, the split in […]

Here is a clip from the last mashup* event in London. Mashup* Manchester first event will be held on 18th October 2007 at Sun Microsystems offices in Sale. This is a paid event. Please register through here. Click here for attendees list. The Manchester series will take a gentle approach. First session will be on […]

Causeway Technologies is currently running a programme to roll out Tradex, their e-invoicing presentment (EIP) platform to Alfred McAlpine’s supply chain. Whilst the benefits of products such as Tradex is well documented, running a supply chain roll out is not as easy as one makes it out to be. This is a long drawn out process […]