We had a strategic review meeting today, at which the decision was taken to allow companies to trial the on-line version of ebdex Document Exchange. Currently limited functionality is enabled, but we came to the conclusion that customer feed back is essential for us to move forward, rather than hold back until all functionality is […]

In my opinion, the ideal customer is a company that has following four key characteristics: Suffers from one or more pains (challenges!) that ebdex Document Exchange relieves (no need to convince). Has a shorter buying cycle (quick result). Has high transaction volume with low number of trading partners (high revenue potential). Uses an accounting or […]

Have you read Ariba’s recent white paper titled "Increase productivity, not paper: The power of EIPP to enhance Accounts Payable Savings and Costs"? If not, it is well worth a read. It proves the points we are making, which are well known by CFOs for 3 decades, yet little progress has been achieved. There was […]

Ariba‘s home page display the following statistics: No. of suppliers on Supplier Network: 120,000 Deployed on desktops:  Over 4m Customers sourced over: $250bn Spend categories covered: 450 Saved customers an estimated: $12bn Ariba is perhaps the largest provider of spend management solutions. In Ariba’s view, spend management consists of: Sourcing Contract management Procurement and expenses Invoice […]

Kiko has attracted a single bid at the asking price. What will the final price be? Place your bets now… Technorati Tags: Kiko, eBay

Recently Alex Fletcher interviewed Dave Stephens, CEO of Coupa. Here is the full interview – Director’s cut! Some weeks back I ran across an interesting open source company while I was surfing through various IT related blogs. I’ll typically stumble across or hear about at least one or two new open source efforts per week […]

Last week, I received a complementary copy of The AngelInve$tor – The Magazine for the alternative investor, published by Corporate Publishing Ltd from Brian Perry, Business Development Director. Brian is a serial entrepreneur turned angel investor and President of Corporate Acquisitions Inc. The Magazine is priced at £10 and the August 06 issue is full […]

In July 06, I responded to an article published by John Beech (MD) on Access Accounting‘s blog.  Following is John’s reply to my comments: Exceptional people are rarely available for long which is why we always take them on straight away, following a series of in-depth interviews and discussions. Extended time scales can raise false […]

As I reported on 11th August, Pegasus is now part of Infor. On 15th May 06, I reported the acquisition of SSA Global by Infor. Infor is now the world’s third largest financial software company after only Oracle and SAP. Update 1: Visit Dennis Howlett’s blog for information on pending redunduncies at Pegasus and introduction […]

Kiko, a Web 2.0 company is on sale at eBay, bid pricing starting at $49,999 with no sign of any bidding activity yet. Following is an extract from eBay: Kiko is a fully function AJAX calendar website. Kiko has an easy to use drag-and-drop interface, natural language appointment input, and localization support. This auction is […]