Mercator Advisory Group #1 – Latest report on Purchasing Cards, Integrated Procurement Solutions, and the Commercial Card Market
Mercator Advisory Group has released a 28 page report with a whopping price tag of $2,450 on purchasing cards, integrated procurement solutions, the commercial card market capturing supporting solutions such as Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP). According to the press release, the highlights of this report include: The field for purchasing card issuing has changed in the […]
Causeway Technologies #4 – Tradex Product Roadmap
Today, we discussed the product road map for Causeway’s Tradex. I wish I can talk about it. The plans and the additional functionality that will be available within the next 6 to 12 months will change the Status Quo. In addition, we also had some great sales wins this month that is worth talking about. […]
Forthcoming BASDA event – a must attend event for software vendors
BASDA is the Business Application Software Developers Association based in the UK, which represents almost 200 of the world’s leading business software vendors including Causeway Technologies. BASDA works with governments and policy-making groups in the UK, Europe and worldwide. In early 2000’s BASDA came up with ebis-XML standard for exchange of structured documents between organisations. ebdex standardised […]
North West based e-invoicing players
It amazes me to know that there is real talent in the North West (NW) of England with respect to e-invoicing providers. These include: Burns e-Commerce – hub based EIPP player – targeting multinationals Version One – accounts payable automation combining scanning/OCR Digital Vision – accounts payable automation combining scanning/OCR from Kofax Kewill – EDI […]
OpenCoffee Manchester – 4th Event
4th event of OpenCoffee Manchester was held today at the usual venue. Number of attendees were disappointing to say the least, a drop from 15 to 8, but we attracted two new comers Nick Burton and Siobhan Clarke, and had more time to network with smaller number of attendees. Many areas were flooded in […]
Ditching Qumana and moving to Windows Live Writer
I recently installed Vision from Sun Systems to interrogate a database, which I believe resulted in corrupting Qumana database. All my attempts to speak to Qumana has resolved to nothing. After weeks of low blogging activity, I finally decided it is time to move on. I lost access to several half written stories, one particular […]
Google EIPP rankings
These days most of us use Google for search. These are the results one gets when entering “eipp” as search criteria (time sensitive results, as you very well know): ebilling.org– ah, the NACHA’s Council for Electronic Billing and Payment site. Good starting point for anyone interested in EIPP. Forrester – this is Penny Gillespie’s 14 page […]
Sun Microsystems #1 – StartUp Essentials
The idea behind Sun Microsystems’ StartUp Essentials program is to help startups get companies off the ground without breaking the bank. The programme started on 2 Nov 06 on an exprimental basis, and currently limited to US companies only. According to Sanjay Sharma, Director of Sun Startup Essentials programme: “A lot of these companies […]
Causeway Technologies # 3 – Register for forthcoming trade shows
Just to let you know, that Causeway Technologies will be visiting London, Birmingham and Manchester in October ’07. If you operate within the UK construction sector, this is one of the best opportunities to meet a leading software house with deep knowledge of the UK construction industry. Causeway Technologies’ key products and solutions include: project accounting, estimating, enterprise content management, and document […]
Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) #1 – Slide pack from slideshare.net
Looks like businesses are beginning to use slideshare.net. This slide pack is from Anscers, a business credit products and services company.