Manoj Ranaweera

Finally, I had the chance to taste Affno Martini whilst in Sri Lanka in July 06 thanks to Vijith Kannangara, co-creator of the drink, and chairman of Affno, Q&E and Smartmedia. I am not a cocktail drinker, but I like the look and taste of it. According to Vijith, the idea came after having couple […]

Dharmesh has written an excellent article on top 6 questions people fail to ask when joining a start-up. His top 6 questions are as follows: Will the founders get along when the going gets tough?  Will you get along with the team?   What’s the history of the basic idea?  What other ideas were assessed […]

When you think you are nearly there – something else happens to slow you down! That’s exactly what happened to me this afternoon. I was finalising some loose ends including software licenses, insurance and legal paper work. To my utter amazement, Bea quoted me a hefty price for weblogic 8.1, which immediately got me to […]

As you may know, Sir David Varney, Chairman of HMRC is to step down soon, and take on an advisory post at the Treasury. Sir David is an Alum of Manchester Business School, and I had the privilege to meet him when he gave a Vital Topics lecture. This meeting led me to visit HMRC […]

One of my friends who recently launched a product, held a User Group Event recently. It was the first such event I attended. I was very much interested in learning so that when ebdex runs its User Conferences/Seminars, we have an appreciation from the "attendees" point of view. List below is what I took home:: […]

Dave Stephens of Coupa (ex-Oracle Executive) has analysed quarterly revenues of SAP and Oracle. Here are the graphs. Visit his blog for the full analysis. Dave, how about doing a similar analysis on Ariba, Procuri, Bottomline Technologies and others from eProcurement point of view. Perhaps I ought to do it from EIPP point of view […]

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I just spent the whole day with Gerry, my mentor! Gerry got me to attend an Executive Coaching session run by Mark Cauchi of Sandler Sales Institute in the morning. Excellent session. Got me to think in a completely different way to approach prospects. I also had the pleasure to meet Simon Bain of TENdotZERO. […]

Recently John Beech, Managing Director of Access Accounting wrote: People are the lifeblood of any company. A cliché perhaps, but I can’t help being a great believer in the importance of investing in staff whether this is through training, self-development or enhancing their current role to make it more rewarding. Quite simply, we’ve found this […]

In a previous article, I explained how the market can be segmented in to: Supplier-centric: sending documents such as invoices electronically from Accounts Receivable (A/R) systems. Purchaser/buyer-centric: receiving documents such as invoices electronically in to Accounts Payable (A/P) systems. Enterprise-centric: sending and receiving documents such as invoices electronically from/into A/R and A/P systems. Exchanges: Connects […]