Several years back, KPMG and others used to provide corporate finance advice to Early Stage Businesses (ESBs) who could not afford to pay the fees demanded by the them. In these cases, they settled for a combination of equity and cash. Enron and other events resulted in clamp down of these practices, and the Big […]

The plan is to hold the following events: Jan 07 – Liverpool Feb 07 – Leeds – contact Imran Ali for further information Mar 07 – Manchester Dates, venues, speakers, etc yet to be firmed up. Both Rising Stars and Liverpool Ventures have pledged their support (this does not mean they will fund any activity). […]

Over the last 4 years or so, Oracle spent approximately $30bn acquiring 30 odd companies (talk to Oracle about precise figures). This strategy has helped Oracle to come up with a world beating middleware solution now branded as Oracle Fusion Middleware. Middleware already produces well over £/$ 1bn (not sure about the currency) in revenues. […]

The Technical Committee of UBL (Universal Business Language) governed by OASIS includes following companies operating in the EIPP industry segment: Accountis Sterling Commerce Some of the big guns include: US Dept of the Navy The Boeing Company Other notable IT companies that ebdex associates with include: Sun Microsystems Oracle Corporation Cap Gemini Technorati Tags: UBL, […]

Here is a quick comparison of UBL 2.0 vs UBL 1.0 UBL 1.0 – Order to Invoice Process (8 document types) UBL 2.0 – Now covering 31 document types The 23 new documents are split as follow: Original UBL 1.0 order-to-invoice document types (updated for UBL 2.0): Order, OrderResponse, OrderResponseSimple, OrderChange, OrderCancellation, DespatchAdvice, ReceiptAdvice, Invoice […]

Here is perhaps the first video of e-invoicing on YouTube. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kg2HWlyqe8] Technorati Tags:  EIPP, e-invoicing

XML was born to harmonise the way data was exchanged between different software systems. As soon as it was out of the bag, groups started drafting schemas that addressed their specific needs. One such organisation is BASDA. So, what are the key XML standards used within purchasing and e-commerce today? Can you think of anything […]

Are you a highly ambitious, exceptional and entrepreneurial Chief Technology Officer? If so, we want you to lead the on-going development of document exchange solutions for our clients. Your background must be in software development and solutions architecture, and you must have demonstrable experience of leading software development teams, meeting stringent quality, time and budgetary […]

Imran Ali has volunteered to organise the next NW StartUp 2.0 event in Leeds on 1st Feb 2007. Do let me know if you would like me to organise another event (2nd Manchester event) in mid January in Manchester. I am also looking for a volunteer to organise similar events in Liverpool. Tags: NW StartUp […]

Frank Bennett of Impaq raised the following point today on AccountingWeb in response to one of John Stokdyk’s articles published sometime ago. EIPP who’s gonna pay?There is an abundance of vendors offering solutions for EIPP. So what? It is gonna boil down to: Who pays and how much? Put yourself in the role of a […]