Manoj Ranaweera Posts

I do not want to allienate this person, but I received the most strange request from an employee of Deloitte yesterday. Here it is….perhaps someone can help her (if you e-mail me on [email protected], I will forward it to her). I am a regular reader of your blogs. Hope you can help with my urgent query or guide me to someone to answer my query.If a company maintains its suppliers and contrats in ARIBA and wants to raise PO in Oracle/iProcurement, is there any tools/adaptors to integrate the two offerrings? Unfortunately, I could not help her, as mmh, I do…

In addition to using upcoming.org to set-up the NW Start Up 2.0 event, I have also created two communities (groups) on the same web site, titled NW Start Up 2.0 and Start Up 2.0. The intention is to allow members (free service) to use these two sites to advertise their requirements as well as offer services. The intended audience is other software/IT/telcom companies, investment community and deal makers. Its success depends on participation of other like minded individuals or it will attract a fast death like many other on-line initiatives. However, it will be linked with the series of events…

Two local well known Asian entrepreneurs are setting up a Dragon’s Den style event where they intend to find suitable start ups to invest £100,000. This event is expected to take place early next year, will no doubt be a hot topic discussed in Manchester and the North West VC/Angel Network community. It is suitably titled as Tiger’s Den. The two entrepreneurs plan to be more friendlier than the lot featured on BBC’s show. Watch the space! Technorati Tags: Tiger’s Den

TechCrunch recenly carried an article on Angelpitch, a new start-up hoping to bring business angels and entrepreneurs together by creating a video conferencing matching service. Visit TechCrunch (Sam Sethi) for full article. Below is an extract plus my own take on VCs and business angels. One of the hardest things to do in the UK is to raise seed capital to get your new startup idea going. If you want to raise £1m+ it’s probably easier to find VC’s who are prepared to invest in you. If you’re interested in becoming an Angel in this network, please email them a…

Paul Roberts has kindly revised the brief after taking stick from none other than Dennis Howlett… A highly ambitious Software or IT Sales Manager or Sales Director is required to lead the sales function.  This person will be responsible for taking the whole ebdex solution to market.  You must have a proven track record of selling Solutions at Board level to Medium Size Enterprises and Corporates.  You must also have the ability to build and manage a team around you.  Sales and Management experience relating to ERP or Financial Software Solutions would be particularly interesting.  Experience in both Direct Sales…

If you intend of attending above event, please register at upcoming.org The event is to bring entrepreneurs who operate in the IT and software industry and those who invest in this sector together, including deal makers. We are trying to attract about 50 people for this event. Please note that we reserve the right to charge for this event (between £10 and £20) Technorati Tags: IoD, TechCrunch, NW Start Up 2.0, Web 2.0, B2B North West, upcoming.org

Advance Notice: The inaugural event for Start Up 2.0 will now be held on 23rd Nov 06 at IoD Manchester. It will run from 18:30 to 20:30 and doors will be opened after 18:15. Those who wished to continue networking could do so at nearby pubs thereafter.  This event will also coincide with BEX 2006 – B2B NW which runs from 10:00 to 17:00 at G-MEX, which is next door to IoD. Why not make a day out in Manchester by attending both. The event is to bring entrepreneurs who operate in the IT and software industry and those who…

We have appointed Autus HR to find, interview and short list candidates for above role. Head of Sales – A highly ambitious IT Sales Manager or Sales Director is required to lead the sales function and be responsible for taking the whole ebdex solution to market.  You must have a proven track record of selling Solutions at Board level to Medium Size Enterprises and Corporates.  You must also have the ability to build and manage a team around you.  Sales and Management experience relating to ERP or Financial Software Solutions would be particularly interesting.  Experience in both Direct Sales and…

Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY) announced today that it has acquired FormScape Group for $22 m ($17 m in cash and $5 m stock). Bottomline Technologies has been in our radar since inception of ebdex but I have not come across FormScape before. FormScape offers two solutions, these being Covus (ERP document lifestyle management system) and FormScape V3 (document output, storage and retrieval system). Not quite a direct competitor to ebdex, but nonetheless now one less company in the fragmented market place. Interesting to note that Oracle, SAP, Sun Microsystems, IBM, HP and Microsoft are identified as ISVs. With more than…

I recently came across few Sri Lankan web 2.0 companies and thought of sharing the information with you: WSO2: run by Sanjiva Weerawarana, ex IBM Researcher. Products: WSO2 Tungsten is an application server for Web services. Sanjiva disagree that he runs a web 2.0 company. blinkx: run by Suranga Chandratilake: blinkx is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine. Perhaps the most successful company run by a Sri Lankan is Virtusa, which was set-up by Kris Canekeratne and his wife. Technorati Tags: WS02, blinkx, Virtusa