Results of Supplier e-invoicing survey carried out by Accountis

Here is the full story from Accountis’ blog (uncut): We recently carried out a short e-invoicing survey on behalf of one of our clients. Out of about 400 potential suppliers interviewed the vast majority were very keen to adopt EIPP and make the switch from paper to electronic to receive e-purchase orders and send e-invoices. […]

Wikipedia Take 3 – EIPP is not part of EBPP – Wikipedia, stop annoying me!

EIPP (Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment) is not part of EBPP (Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment), nor is EBPP part of EIPP. It is wrong to generalise. The term "bill" is used within the B2C context (requiring very little information on consumer, if any) whilst the term "invoice" is used within the B2B context (requiring […]

mashup* – 6pm, 22nd Feb. 2007 What’s next, Web3.0?

Paul Walsh (speaker) from Segala and Katrina Delargy (attended the last event) from Tiyga and Aventura just convinced me to attend the mashup event which will be held on 22nd Feb 2007 at London. The Vecosys boys (Sam and Mike) have taken over running of mashup events from Simon Grice. Simon’s company remains a key […]

Footy 24/7 – A cool aggregator for football fans

I just came across Footy 24/7, a cool football aggregator of news, blogs, videos and images from official sites, fan sites, youtube and flickr.  It provides one large RSS feed for each team allowing fans to subscribe to one central source rather than many sites.  Currently the largest UK football news services like Newsnow does […]

Aberdeen Group – Survey on e-payables

I have recently traded emails with Andrew Bartolini of the Aberdeen Group (Research Director, Global Supply Management) regarding his latest Benchmark Report entitled “E-Payables: Advancing Accounts Payable Automation.” This report will highlight drivers influencing the payables transformation, deployment best practices, and recommendations for improvements. Please spend 10 minutes taking the survey to benchmark your A/P […]

e-Petitions – Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy

If you disagree with the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy, you have one more day left to register your disagreement. The e-Petition can be accessed through here. The site has so far obtained 1,605,764 signatures. Do take a minute to view some hilarious e-petitions, e.g. Send Chris Hedley to Outer Mongolia until he […]

London 2012 Olympics launches e-Procurment/Tendering Service

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) this month launched a new e-Tendering and planning service to assist businesses compete for up to 2,000 contracts. ODA Chief Executive David Higgins said: "The London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games can be a showcase for world class business as well as sporting performance. We want to ensure businesses […]

Yuuguu launches new Beta and new website in addition to coverage on Vecosys

Remember these two guys? They are going from strength to strength. They reported a triple whammy recently, i.e. new website, new release and coverage on vecosys by Sam Sethi. I have been a user of Yuuguu from almost the beginning. Sam does a good coverage of the product, so I will not repeat it. About […]

2012 London Olympics – Accenture wins back-office contract – what about Document Exchange?

According to computing magazine, Accenture has beaten BT Global Services, IBM and LogicaCMG to win the lucrative contract to run the back-office systems of the The London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Locog). Accenture will integrate Locog’s systems and services to create a platform which will drive the planning of the games. […]