Manoj Ranaweera

I just came across Footy 24/7, a cool football aggregator of news, blogs, videos and images from official sites, fan sites, youtube and flickr.  It provides one large RSS feed for each team allowing fans to subscribe to one central source rather than many sites.  Currently the largest UK football news services like Newsnow does […]

I have recently traded emails with Andrew Bartolini of the Aberdeen Group (Research Director, Global Supply Management) regarding his latest Benchmark Report entitled “E-Payables: Advancing Accounts Payable Automation.” This report will highlight drivers influencing the payables transformation, deployment best practices, and recommendations for improvements. Please spend 10 minutes taking the survey to benchmark your A/P […]

Accountis News: Accountis Supports 3rd European EXPP Summit Accountis just announced their support for the 3rd EXPP summit, which will be held at the Millennium Conference Centre, London on 10-11th September. This event is organised by Bruno Koch of Billentis and will no doubt attract vendors and users (including those thinking of adapting) of e-invoicing, […]

If you disagree with the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy, you have one more day left to register your disagreement. The e-Petition can be accessed through here. The site has so far obtained 1,605,764 signatures. Do take a minute to view some hilarious e-petitions, e.g. Send Chris Hedley to Outer Mongolia until he […]

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) this month launched a new e-Tendering and planning service to assist businesses compete for up to 2,000 contracts. ODA Chief Executive David Higgins said: "The London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games can be a showcase for world class business as well as sporting performance. We want to ensure businesses […]

Remember these two guys? They are going from strength to strength. They reported a triple whammy recently, i.e. new website, new release and coverage on vecosys by Sam Sethi. I have been a user of Yuuguu from almost the beginning. Sam does a good coverage of the product, so I will not repeat it. About […]

According to computing magazine, Accenture has beaten BT Global Services, IBM and LogicaCMG to win the lucrative contract to run the back-office systems of the The London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Locog). Accenture will integrate Locog’s systems and services to create a platform which will drive the planning of the games. […]

I had the pleasure to meet recently a number of individuals who run various software communities in the North West of England. The gathering was organised under the auspicious of Manchester Digital Development Agency. To my amazement, the North West has number of mature software communities who meets on regular basis. The communities represented included: […]

I just got home from attending my first Geekup event in Manchester. GeekUp is a growing community of web designers, web developers, and other web-minded folk from the North West who meet up in Manchester to discuss the latest industry news, share ideas and spread a little knowledge. Familiar figures who attended included Anish Kapoor, […]

What came out clearly from my discussions with heads of our competitors is that ebdex is clearly very ambitious when it comes to partnering. ebdex’s strategy is to excel in three areas, these being: Understand the market better than anyone else Deliver a service better than anyone else In this process, manage an extensive partner […]