One of the key differentiators of ebdex was that it would have been partner-led (essential ingredient to become high volume transaction business), leaving ebdex to concentrate on developing and operating the ebdex Document Exchange. This is one of the issues I discussed when I met Accountis’s senior management in Q1 2007 in Bangor. Ifor Williams, […]

This is a comment I was going to post on Mike Prosceno’s blog, but decided instead to post it here…… Let’s be honest Mike, 95% (my gut feel) of global businesses do not get web 2.0. Some have never even heard of it. Others think it’s all to do with consumers and not businesses. So, […]

    I met Sam Sethi last night for a glass of wine as he felt bit sorry for me for been stuck in a hotel room on my birthday in Loud Water. One of the nice surprises was to find out that I am one year younger than Sam, which makes me feel good. […]

Dave Friedlos  of Computing.co.uk recently ran an article (publication dated 21 June 2007) on UK companies lagging behind their European counterparts in terms of supply chain integration. Nothing new here! According to the article: “Lack of integrated systems and data can cause extra costs, take longer to bring new products to market, and lead to […]

Bojan Jovicic of Delta Sport who is currently undertaking a degree at Belgrade University is undertaking research into ERP systems. Appreciate if you can take few minutes to respond to his questionnaire here. According to Bojan, the questionnaire is anonymous, and has only 12 mandatory questions. It focus on ease of creating/modifying various UI (User […]

Dennis Howlett has teamed up with three others to bring a simple yet effective web based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application to the UK market. FreeAgent is an online money management tool intended for small, UK-based service businesses of 1-3 employees. This will include most kinds of freelancers, contractors and consultants. Whether you are just getting started, […]

Creating an API is no mean feat! Talk to many enterprise software vendors, and ask for a copy of their API. Some have it. Some have what they think is an API but of very little use to another. Some have never thought of having an API in the first place – what? You want […]

Rhys Blakely of TimesOneline has published a working progress Top 50 business blogs. The Top 50 is split into Banking & Finance Construction & Property Consumer Goods Engineering Health Industrials Leisure Media Natural Resources Retailing Support Services Technology Telecoms Transport Utilities Among the Blogs I recognise include: Scobeleizer – by Robert Scoble, started when he was an […]

I attended OpenCoffee London this past Thursday specially to meet the team from Sun Microsystems. Here is a snap shot of my interactivity: Sun Microsystems Discussed two aspects with Sun team which comprised of my friend, Stewart Townsend from Manchester, and Sanjay Sharma (Director – Startups and Emerging Markets Market Development) from the USA and […]

In my opinion, Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP) is not an easily understood subject by Venture Capitalists (VCs) even though Burns e-Commerce, OB10 and Accountis had significant funding from the VC community. In the case of OB10, this is believed to be in the range of US$30m. But according to Jamie Gunn, CEO of […]