Manoj Ranaweera Posts

I have been revisiting all grounds recently. ebdex started because of the following compelling business case: 27 bn paper invoices are processed annually in Europe (Swiss Post) It costs around £9 to process an invoice (IOMA) – it cost UK government £75 to process an invoice – how much does it cost you? Document Exchanges can produce savings up to 90% (LogicaCMG) – We know achieving 50% is easier. This results in savings of £218bn (based on 90%) to European businesses. How much would you like to save? Let’s go out and get a portion of this business – sounded…

Is dot.com 2.0 here? Well we call it by different names just to confuse the market, e.g. web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, xx 2.0. Some of the deals I know of: Google buying You Tube for $1.65bn in stock – $22 per visitor ebay buying Skype for $2.6bn News Corp buying Myspace for $580m – $10 per visitor Facebook in talks with Yahoo – $1bn – $67 per visitor What other silly money deals do you know of? Technorati Tags: Google, eBay, You Tube, Skype, Facebook, News Corp

Below is a list of 50 fastest growing publicly held business software companies, based on year-on-year growth compiled by Baseline. According to Baseline, most of the companies at the top, do not sell software in the traditional sense – they follow the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, similar to ebdex. As you would have expected, all of these companies are US based. Click company name for summary of financial and competitor details. Rank Company Category Annual growth 1 Click Commerce†1 Supply chain management 128.2% 2 Omniture Web site analytics 108.1% 3 Synchronoss Technologies E-commerce for communications providers 99.4% 4 Knova Software† Knowledge…

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,…