Manoj Ranaweera

On 19 July 2007, OB10 and GXS announced a partnership to build an integrated e-invoicing solution. Few years ago, perhaps this would not have happened. XML was going to rule the world – EDI was dead, they said. Today, the level of market penetration by both EDI and XML combined is still very small. Paper […]

According to the press release today, OB10 has announced a partnership with Abbey UK Corporate Banking, part of Santander Group. The emphasis is on cash flow benefits and processing cost savings to businesses in the UK, Europe and internationally. According to the press release: The new service, Supplier Payments, is aimed at large corporates, mid-corporates […]

  OpenCoffee Manchester 5th event was held on past Tuesday at the same venue. Here are some pictures: Attendees Stewart Townsend – Sun Microsystems – Stewart and I are collaborating on number of initiatives Aldo De Leonibus – Director of Inventya. He also brought two of his colleagues Siobhan Clarke – MBA Student from Manchester […]

Andrew K. Reese and Sarah Murray recently published a comprehensive article on Supply Demand Chain Executive honoring the Supply Chain leaders of 2007. If you are interested in the Supply Chain, I recommend you to read the full article here. As you very well know, Supply Chain continues to have a significant presence within the […]

All of us are in business (with respect to B2B) to provide a product and/or service to satisfy a business need and in most cases to relieve a pain suffered by a business customer. In doing so, we all have two broader options that could be followed, these being: Provide a solution combining product and/or […]

I had the opportunity to attend OpenCoffee London yesterday morning, as I was in London for a private matter, having stayed the night before at Bourne End where Causeway Technologies is Head Quartered. As expected, the buzz is still there. But except for Saul Klein, I could not see any investors or deal makers among the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]