Manoj Ranaweera

It amazes me to know that there is real talent in the North West (NW) of England with respect to e-invoicing providers. These include: Burns e-Commerce – hub based EIPP player – targeting multinationals Version One – accounts payable automation combining scanning/OCR Digital Vision – accounts payable automation combining scanning/OCR from Kofax Kewill – EDI […]

  4th event of OpenCoffee Manchester was held today at the usual venue. Number of attendees were disappointing to say the least, a drop from 15 to 8, but we attracted two new comers Nick Burton and Siobhan Clarke, and had more time to network with smaller number of attendees. Many areas were flooded in […]

I recently installed Vision from Sun Systems to interrogate a database, which I believe resulted in corrupting Qumana database. All my attempts to speak to Qumana has resolved to nothing. After weeks of low blogging activity, I finally decided it is time to move on. I lost access to several half written stories, one particular […]

These days most of us use Google for search. These are the results one gets when entering “eipp” as search criteria (time sensitive results, as you very well know): ebilling.org– ah, the NACHA’s Council for Electronic Billing and Payment site. Good starting point for anyone interested in EIPP. Forrester – this is Penny Gillespie’s 14 page […]

  The idea behind Sun Microsystems’ StartUp Essentials program is to help startups get companies off the ground without breaking the bank. The programme started on 2 Nov 06 on an exprimental basis, and currently limited to US companies only. According to Sanjay Sharma, Director of Sun Startup Essentials programme: “A lot of these companies […]

Just to let you know, that Causeway Technologies will be visiting London, Birmingham and Manchester in October ’07. If you operate within the UK construction sector, this is one of the best opportunities to meet a leading software house with deep knowledge of the UK construction industry. Causeway Technologies’ key products and solutions include: project accounting, estimating, enterprise content management, and document […]

Looks like businesses are beginning to use slideshare.net. This slide pack is from Anscers, a business credit products and services company.

According to corporate website, Burns e-Commerce has acquired Investmaster Group Ltd from Canadian investment management company AGF Management Ltd for an undisclosed sum.  According to Peter Little, CEO of Burns: “The synergy between the two companies is technology based. Both organisations support and assist companies operating in environments that are manually intensive, paper-based and heavily […]

  Albany Software has been operating since 1989, and in 2005, the company reported revenues of £7.593 million and headcount of 93 people. Albany has gone through three name changes in the past, these being: Goodwing Computers -> Halon Computers (1989) -> Albany Computers (1989) -> Albany Software (1994). The company is 100% owned by […]

I love slideshare.net. If you are a lousy powerpoint presenter as I am, slideshare.net should be the first place you should go to get some excellent self-learning. Dennis, thanks for the tip.