Manoj Ranaweera

Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY) announced today that it has acquired FormScape Group for $22 m ($17 m in cash and $5 m stock). Bottomline Technologies has been in our radar since inception of ebdex but I have not come across FormScape before. FormScape offers two solutions, these being Covus (ERP document lifestyle management system) and […]

I recently came across few Sri Lankan web 2.0 companies and thought of sharing the information with you: WSO2: run by Sanjiva Weerawarana, ex IBM Researcher. Products: WSO2 Tungsten is an application server for Web services. Sanjiva disagree that he runs a web 2.0 company. blinkx: run by Suranga Chandratilake: blinkx is the world’s largest […]

I have been revisiting all grounds recently. ebdex started because of the following compelling business case: 27 bn paper invoices are processed annually in Europe (Swiss Post) It costs around £9 to process an invoice (IOMA) – it cost UK government £75 to process an invoice – how much does it cost you? Document Exchanges […]

Is dot.com 2.0 here? Well we call it by different names just to confuse the market, e.g. web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, xx 2.0. Some of the deals I know of: Google buying You Tube for $1.65bn in stock – $22 per visitor ebay buying Skype for $2.6bn News Corp buying Myspace for $580m – $10 […]

Below is a list of 50 fastest growing publicly held business software companies, based on year-on-year growth compiled by Baseline. According to Baseline, most of the companies at the top, do not sell software in the traditional sense – they follow the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, similar to ebdex. As you would have expected, all of […]

Jane Harrad-Roberts of Marketing Projects spent few hours this morning with us to simplify our message. Let’s hear what you think about this? ebdex enables accounts payable systems and accounts receivable systems to communicate easily. Then we received a comment from John Clough on my previous article on what is ebdex, which got us to […]

Having said what ebdex is, how does ebdex help you improve your profitability and cash flow? Technorati Tags: ebdex

I am constantly attempting to simplify our message. What do you think about the following? Can you improve this? ebdex is an innovative organisation that helps CEOs, MDs and FDs of small and large companies improve their profitability and cash flow by leveraging existing investments in technology.  Technorati Tags: ebdex

On 4th October 2006, AccountingWEB held its first Software Satisfaction Awards for small business accounting packages. More than 1400 people took part in the survey and the results were: Reliability Sage Line 50 MYOB Accounting Plus Mamut Small Business Concierge Ease of use Quickbooks Pro Sage Line 50 TAS Books 1 Functionality Mamut Small Business […]

Sam Sethi of TechCrunch UK and I have been discussing about setting up a monthly get together for Software Entrepreneurs and the Investment Community in the North West of England. Sam is interested in doing a road show to promote such events across the country. Ivan Pope of Snipperoo and I have been scratching our […]