Manoj Ranaweera Posts

Jane Harrad-Roberts of Marketing Projects spent few hours this morning with us to simplify our message. Let’s hear what you think about this? ebdex enables accounts payable systems and accounts receivable systems to communicate easily. Then we received a comment from John Clough on my previous article on what is ebdex, which got us to refine the sentence on our corporate website. ebdex provides a secure, scalable, managed and hosted Business-to-Business (B2B) electronic document exchange that increases the operational efficiency and profits of our clients whilst improving their cash flow and their competitiveness, with almost zero capital expenditure. Then Jane…

Having said what ebdex is, how does ebdex help you improve your profitability and cash flow? Technorati Tags: ebdex

I am constantly attempting to simplify our message. What do you think about the following? Can you improve this? ebdex is an innovative organisation that helps CEOs, MDs and FDs of small and large companies improve their profitability and cash flow by leveraging existing investments in technology.  Technorati Tags: ebdex

On 4th October 2006, AccountingWEB held its first Software Satisfaction Awards for small business accounting packages. More than 1400 people took part in the survey and the results were: Reliability Sage Line 50 MYOB Accounting Plus Mamut Small Business Concierge Ease of use Quickbooks Pro Sage Line 50 TAS Books 1 Functionality Mamut Small Business Concierge Sage Line 50 Quickbooks Pro Value for Money MYOB Accounting Plus Mamut Small Business Concierge Sage Instant

Sam Sethi of TechCrunch UK and I have been discussing about setting up a monthly get together for Software Entrepreneurs and the Investment Community in the North West of England. Sam is interested in doing a road show to promote such events across the country. Ivan Pope of Snipperoo and I have been scratching our heads about a suitable name as he is also planning a similar series of events in Brighton. Ivan suggested xx Start-Up 2.0. I am yet to get agreement from Sam, but both Ivan and I think it has the potential to develop into a great…

Same source as before. To search the list, use this link http://business.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,20590,00.html Technorati Tags: Sunday Times Rich List

Update 1: Source for above list is Sunday Times Rich List. Above is the online millionaire list. Freeserve was claimed to have sold for £1.6bn to Wanadoo. Only Peter Wilkinson’s name is mentioned. Where is Ajaz Ahmed and the other guys? Sofware: Graham Wylie made bulk of his money from Sage. Where is Michael Jackson from Sage? 295= Graham Wylie £200m Software and racehorses 354 Dr Mike Lynch £164m Software 648= Dr Jan Hruska £90m Software 648= Dr Peter Lammer £90m Software I have not found a way to download the full list in one go. If you do manage,…

This was an unusual week of meeting successful people. Third was none other than Ajaz Ahmed. A Dixons store manager, who came up with the idea to set-up Freeserve. Here is a bit about Ajaz from http://www.e-consultancy.com (his story is well covered) Ajaz Ahmed is the founder of Freeserve, the UK’s largest ISP, now owned by Wanadoo. His eureka moment came when he bought a PC at PC World in Leeds and nobody in the store could tell him how to get onto the Internet. After much persuasion by him, Dixons launched Freeserve in September 1998 and became the UK’s…

This week, I also had the privilege to meet another leader, Tom Bloxham of Urban Splash. Tom has done more than anyone else to regenerate Manchester and Liverpool over the last 15 years. He has won over 120 awards for architecture, regeneration and business success. It is amazing to see some of the regenerative work he has done – especially before and after effect. Some of his success is due to taking on projects that no one would touch and using young architects with new ideas to create magical transformations. His residential apartments usually get sold out within couple of…

I finally had the pleasure to meet Gary Turner, MD of Pegasus this week. His business has changed hands twice over the last few months, first with Extensity and then with Infor. He has not only survived, but has positioned his company well within Infor creating further opportunities for growth. We spoke business for two hours and then spent the next hour speaking about blogging, hype of SaaS and other interesting issues over lunch. He has been blogging for well over 5 years and have successfully managed to keep business out of his blog. A remarkable discipline. When it comes…