Manoj Ranaweera

  3rd event of OpenCoffee Manchester (OCM) was held on 22nd May 2007 at Starbucks, Television House, 10, Mount St, Manchester, Manchester M2 5NT. Here are the attendees (15, the most we had to date) and some of the conversations that took place: Entrepreneurs: Mike Carter – Co-founder of Ixis – Ixis operates from Daresbury […]

Moderator – Manoj Ranaweera – ebdexManoj founded ebdex in late 2004 to reduce the pains felt by organisations in dealing with their suppliers and customers with respect to exchange of structured documents. The result was ebdex Document Exchange, with ebdex EIPP (Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment) being the first application offered to both SMEs and […]

NW Start Up 2.0 is the North West’s premier event for software entrepreneurs and investment community to meet under one roof in an informal setting. Come along to our next event on the 14th of June 2007 at KPMG Manchester for an evening of conversation and potential deal making. We aim to encourage creative thinking. […]

This infact has nothing to do with SAP, except that the conversation started at SAP. It all started when Maggie started drawing a deer like creature, she called a Moose. So what is the difference between a Moose, an Elk and a Samber? Prashanth was convinced that there is no such animal called Samber. He […]

OpenCoffee Manchester is a setting for technology entrepreneurs, investors and deal makers to meet like minded individuals in an informal setting. Due to number of requests from you, I have changed the start up time of OpenCoffee Manchester to 10:00 am. The next event will be on 22nd May 2007 at the same venue, i.e. […]

Here is what bloggers had to say…courtesy of Craig Cmehil..have fun Tags: SAP SAPPHIRE 07 VIENNA, SAP, Bloggers, Craig Cmehil

Rumour has it that SAP is taking steps to ditch use of Oracle database for IBM’s DB2. The annual cost for use of Oracle database is around $800m, according to Paul Bhuhi, ERP Solutions Director of Computer Sciences Corporation, one of the largest system integrators in the world. Will this inflate the dirty tricks campaign […]

Here is a list of blog posts from the bloggers sponsored by SAP, attending SAP European annual event in Vienna: David Terrar – Business Two Zero SAP’s mid market strategy with SaaS SAPPHIRE 07 asides SAP’s mid market strategy, A1S and a demo of sorts Kagermann’s keynote – numbers and confidence at the speed of […]

By the time I set foot in the Conference Hall, the show has more or less finished and the last session of the day for bloggers was in full swing with Dennis Moore of SAP Labs. My journey started at 7 am, taxi to airport, Manchester to Charles De Gaule, and from there to Vienna. […]

As I was in London on last Thursday, I dropped in at OpenCoffee London (on the 5th floor of Waterstones in Piccadilly) organised by Saul Klein of Index Ventures. Unfortunately, Saul was not there, but met Sayula Kirby who works closely with Saul. We spoke about the next NW StartUp 2.0 event, which will be […]