Manoj Ranaweera
Transcepta #1 – A breath of fresh air
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 […]
SAP #10 – Appointment of Stefan Krauss to head the global construction business
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 […]
Gartner #1 – Financial Services Technology Summit
Hilton Metropole Hotel, London, UK on 24-25 September 2007 According to Gartner, this summit is for staying ahead of the game whilst been in touch with your clients! Easily said than done! The Summit is split into three areas, these being: Business Strategy Operational Excellence Technology & Application Among sponsors are Microgen and TietoEnator from e-invoicing/e-billing/e-Procurement […]
Seed Camp #1 – Y Combinator for Europe
Seedcamp is another brilliant idea by Saul Klein, the man behind OpenCoffee theme. The idea is to grab the best early stage companies set-up by those novel to startup scene before they get noticed by others – well before they achieve any valuation worth mentioning. Seedcamp targets young entrepreneurs. Saul has also achieved simplicity again […]
Google #1 – Key word rankings
The prominence of this blog with respect to vendors’ own corporate Web sites for few companies operating in the e-invoicing space can be found in the following table. I also included BASDA Vendor(Key word) Google (Vendor) Google UK(Vendor) Google(This blog) Google UK(This blog) Accountis 1 &2 1 & 2 11 9 & 10 Albany Software […]
OB10 #5 – Teams up with KeyMark
KeyMark, a document capture, management and workflow systems vendor founded in 1996 has teamed up OB10 to provide electronic invoice processing in their KeyTrack solution, which automates AP processes. According to the press release: KeyMark CEO Jim Wanner commented ?the sooner we transfer data to digital format the better it is for our customers. By […]
Rhys Jones #1 – Sanoodi gets seed corn capital
According to Mobile Magazine, one of Rhys Jones’s startups, Sanoodi has closed an initial seed funding round of £350,000 from a number of private investors in the UK, the US and Switzerland. It seems Sanoodi will use the initial investment to launch its mobile phone GPS platform and to expand its business development activities. Here is […]
Accountis #6 – Billportal joins as a partner
One of the key differentiators of ebdex was that it would have been partner-led (essential ingredient to become high volume transaction business), leaving ebdex to concentrate on developing and operating the ebdex Document Exchange. This is one of the issues I discussed when I met Accountis’s senior management in Q1 2007 in Bangor. Ifor Williams, […]
SAP #9 – Mike Prosceno – SAP’s Social Media Guru – A man on a mission to change SAP’s engagement
This is a comment I was going to post on Mike Prosceno’s blog, but decided instead to post it here…… Let’s be honest Mike, 95% (my gut feel) of global businesses do not get web 2.0. Some have never even heard of it. Others think it’s all to do with consumers and not businesses. So, […]
Blognation #3 – Finally launched with UK leading the pack
I met Sam Sethi last night for a glass of wine as he felt bit sorry for me for been stuck in a hotel room on my birthday in Loud Water. One of the nice surprises was to find out that I am one year younger than Sam, which makes me feel good. […]