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  Congratulations to Causeway Technologies for becoming the No. 1 software house in the UK Construction industry with the acquisition of Elstree Computing Ltd (ECL). According to Phil Brown, Causeway has achieved No. 1 position in three fronts, these being: headcount (circa 130), revenues (pro-forma £13m) and customers (over 2000). With this acquisition, the split in […]

Here is a clip from the last mashup* event in London. Mashup* Manchester first event will be held on 18th October 2007 at Sun Microsystems offices in Sale. This is a paid event. Please register through here. Click here for attendees list. The Manchester series will take a gentle approach. First session will be on […]

Causeway Technologies is currently running a programme to roll out Tradex, their e-invoicing presentment (EIP) platform to Alfred McAlpine’s supply chain. Whilst the benefits of products such as Tradex is well documented, running a supply chain roll out is not as easy as one makes it out to be. This is a long drawn out process […]

Yesterday, I had the pleasure to speak to Marcus Hughes of Abbey UK Corporate Banking, and learn bit more about the solution they have brought to market jointly with OB10. Abbey calls this reverse factoring. Let’s review the business process: Supplier sends the invoice to buyer through OB10 e-invoicing platform. I assume everyone knows how […]

Just to let you know that I am experimenting with a new page titled “News”, which tracks Google News on “EIPP” and “e-invoicing”. There is not much value addition here, as you can set this yourself. But it will help me to find stories easily. In the past, I have received news releases directly from OB10, […]

On 19 July 2007, OB10 and GXS announced a partnership to build an integrated e-invoicing solution. Few years ago, perhaps this would not have happened. XML was going to rule the world – EDI was dead, they said. Today, the level of market penetration by both EDI and XML combined is still very small. Paper […]

According to the press release today, OB10 has announced a partnership with Abbey UK Corporate Banking, part of Santander Group. The emphasis is on cash flow benefits and processing cost savings to businesses in the UK, Europe and internationally. According to the press release: The new service, Supplier Payments, is aimed at large corporates, mid-corporates […]

  OpenCoffee Manchester 5th event was held on past Tuesday at the same venue. Here are some pictures: Attendees Stewart Townsend – Sun Microsystems – Stewart and I are collaborating on number of initiatives Aldo De Leonibus – Director of Inventya. He also brought two of his colleagues Siobhan Clarke – MBA Student from Manchester […]

Andrew K. Reese and Sarah Murray recently published a comprehensive article on Supply Demand Chain Executive honoring the Supply Chain leaders of 2007. If you are interested in the Supply Chain, I recommend you to read the full article here. As you very well know, Supply Chain continues to have a significant presence within the […]