Manoj Ranaweera

For some unknown reason, SAP is sponsoring me to attend their European gig, SAP SAPPHIRE 07 in Vienna from 14th to 16th of May 2007. I am no A-list blogger. In fact, since changing the URL, I have struggled to get into the top 200,000 of the world wide blogs tracked by Technorati. So why […]

Web 2.0, what is it? Wiki, what do you mean? Blog, heard about it! These were some of the comments I received when above terms were mentioned within Causeway. Now, let’s be fair. I expect to receive similar comments from most of UK and global organisations. Yet to mine and most other staff’s surprise, Causeway […]

More than 220 informative and insightful presentations were given at the Sap’s North American Annual Event, SAP Sapphire 07 Atlanta, by SAP personnel, their customers, partners and independent analysts. Here is my pick on Supply Relationship Management (SRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM): Automating Financial Processes: Imaging, OCR, E-Invoicing, and More by  Larry Concannon, Director […]

Anish Kapoor, co-founder of Yuuguu was a co-founder of Telecity with Mike Kelly of Manchester University during the first dot.com boom. Telecity was one of the darlings of the Internet boom achieving £1bn market capitalisation but collapsed with the dot.com collapse. After taking over Redbus and with the second dot.com boom taking place as we […]

If you are interested in the above report, it can be grabbed for free here until end of May 2007, thanks to Andrew Bartolini of the Aberdeen Group. Andrew has also suggested doing a Q&A session through this blog. I am yet to work out the details. Perhaps this could be around following topics (extending […]

Tie UK has finally announced the long awaited TiEger’s Den that would take place on 4th June 2007 at Manchester Business School. Sandy Chadha and Sanjay Vadera are ready to invest £400,000 in to 4 North West early stage companies that have been trading for over six months. Each competitor will be given 10 minutes […]

Here is an excellent presentation from Dick Hardt of sxip, explaining what identity 2.0 is. . Could the speakers of mashup* on 24th April do a better job than Dick Hardt explaining identity 2.0? Reference(s): Learn all about Identity 2.0 at next mashup on 24th April 2007 Tags: identity 2.0, sxip, Dick Hardt

This week, I had the privilege to attend a Hub Alliance committee meeting on behalf of Causeway, which was held at the London office of Burns e-Commerce. In order to do justice to the initiative, I plan to publish separate blog posts on following themes: Objectives of the alliance and the reasons for setting it […]

According to the latest press release by Pegasus, Gary Turner plans to leave Pegasus in June 2007. Ken Walters, President of Infor’s financial solutions division said, "Infor is totally committed to driving Pegasus forwards. While we regret Gary’s decision to leave, we also respect it was his personal decision. I would like to thank him […]

I planned to meet Sam Sethi on Wednesday night to discuss the relaunch of Vecosys, but due to an issue at Sam’s end, we could not meet as planned. My understanding is that when Vecosys is relaunched, it will be as blognation and will be launched in six countries, hopefully simultaneously. It will also cover […]