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ebdex is dead!
ebdex was formed on 25th Nov 2004 with the idea of disrupting the EIPP market dominated by Accountis and OB10. To be fair, OB10 and Accountis had very low market penetration then (and same is true now). But they were the best examples an ambitious st...
Tim re-unites with his baby (Tradex) and enters the world of blogging
Last week, I learned that Tim Cole, R&D Director of Causeway Technologies and Founder of Tradex has been given the task of growing Tradex into a mainstream e-invoicing hub. During the last year, the responsibility for Tradex changed many hands in...
TBiConnect joins a foray of e-invoicing startups to be funded by Venture Capitalists
Latest to join the e-invoicing startups to be funded by Venture Capitalists is TBiConnect run by Simon Fox. Both OB10 and Burns e-Commerce top the VC funding tables for attracting the most cash to date. Among other funded companies include Accountis ...
Be honest … why do we trade electronically?
Do you think you know? As I enter my 14th year working to reduce the folly of computers talking to computers via paper, there are still many questions to be answered. Ah, you may say, don’t I even read my own presentation slides! Sure, I ...
Review of Bruno’s latest e-invoicing Quarterly…
Without a doubt, Bruno is the master of e-invoicing in Europe if not the world. His e-invoicing Quarterly is a much anticipated update of the e-invoicing market. Whilst I have hoped to do something similar for the UK market, I must admit, I am less o...
Basware #2 + Hub Alliance #3 - Basware joins Hub Alliance
It is good to hear that Basware has formally joined the Hub Alliance, increasing the member companies to six, which includes founding members Asite, Causeway Technologies and Burns e-Commerce from the UK in addition to...
CheckFree #1 - Fiserv to Acquire CheckFree
Over the last year, we noticed two key acquisitions in the EIPP and Payments space, these being purchase of Xign by JP Morgan and purchase of Harbor Payments by American Express. Recently, I had lunch with a US Company looking for an acquisition in...
Causeway Technologies #7 - Time to move on!
My current contract with Causeway Technologies will soon come to an end. By then, I would have spent four months with Causeway’s Tradex, asking awkward questions and getting people out of the comfort zone. Tradex now has a tactical team as well...
Causeway Technologies #6 - No. 1 in UK Construction - Congratulations!
Congratulations to Causeway Technologies for becoming the No. 1 software house in the UK Construction industry with the acquisition of Elstree Computing Ltd (ECL). According to Phil Brown, Causeway has achieved No. 1 position in three fronts,...
e-invoicing/EIPP hubs #1 - Dangers of Customisation
All of us are in business (with respect to B2B) to provide a product and/or service to satisfy a business need and in most cases to relieve a pain suffered by a business customer. In doing so, we all have two broader options that could be followed, t...
Transcepta #1 - A breath of fresh air
Differentiation Very rarely you find a company that wants to provide a value proposition for the small guy, especially in the e-invoicing and EIPP space. I believe Transcepta is one of these companies, who understands and has found a way to overcome...
Google #1 - Key word rankings
The prominence of this blog with respect to vendors’ own corporate Web sites for few companies operating in the e-invoicing space can be found in the following table. I also included BASDA Vendor(Key word) Google (Vendor) Google UK(Vendor) G...
Accountis #6 - Billportal joins as a partner
One of the key differentiators of ebdex was that it would have been partner-led (essential ingredient to become high volume transaction business), leaving ebdex to concentrate on developing and operating the ebdex Document Exchange. This is one of th...
Causeway Technologies # 3 - Register for forthcoming trade shows
Just to let you know, that Causeway Technologies will be visiting London, Birmingham and Manchester in October '07. If you operate within the UK construction sector, this is one of the best opportunities to meet a leading software house with deep...
