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Sage goes free with BillingBoss
It is not often I get to know a new product before Dennis Howlett, especially in the accountancy software market. But it seems Dennis as well as most people at the HQ of Sage in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne may not have been aware of BillingBoss released by C...
RBS to resell Accountis’ e-invoicing service to corporate customers
Founders, Rhys Jones and others, and new owners of Accountis, FundTech must be so thrilled to finally be able to announce the deal with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Accountis has been working on this deal for many years, which I came to know at leas...
Did Rhys sell Accountis too cheaply?
What valuation would you assign to an EIPP provider? Should this be based on past performance, future potential or a combination of both? If so, was Accountis sold too cheaply to fundtech? Who held the upper hand during negotiations? Or was the share...
Well done Jamie
Congratulations to Jamie Gunn and the team from OB10, and their client Kelloggs for winning the "Shared Service Centre Organisation of the Year’ award in Barcelona at the IQPC Shared Services Week. Technorati Tags: OB10 Share This...
European Purchase-to-Pay Week 2008
Technorati Tags: P2P,purchase-to-payment,iqpc,eipp,e-invoicing IQPC is organising a seminar next week from 16th to 18th in Brussels and 18th to 20th in London. Strapline is "one agenda two locations". As usual, attendees are expected to pay a...
Online Seminar: Unleash New P-Card Potential with Order-to-Pay
If you wish to register for above seminar conducted by JP Morgan Chase on 19th June 2008, please click here. Here is the synopsis of the seminar: Traditional purchasing card programs have focused on low-dollar purchases with limited approval requirem...
Few changes about my blogging activities
Following changes will be effective from today: Northern StartUp 2.0 Blog - Startups including events - Others are welcome to contribute, do let me know if you wish to blog about your startup, the Northern ecosystem, or lack of it. edocr.com - the p...
EIPP StartUps - Talk to me!
Since the beginning of this year, I spoke to number of EIPP/e-invoicing StartUps in various stages of development. Most of them were in very early stages and had the wisdom to meet me before putting their plans into action. One of them has withdrawn ...
Injustice to EIPP/e-invoicing - lack of coverage
Apologies for the lack of recent coverage on eipp/e-invoicing. Thought leadership cannot be provided without undertaking adequate research. Wouldn’t it be great if document/information search time can be reduced. This is one of the reasons why ...
Webmission08 - Day 1: On flight to San Francisco
This is written on flight but posted after landing as there isn’t a mechanism to post this any other way, eventhough my shiny new mac is picking up a "Free WiFi Signal". According to the list of attendees, I am accompanied by 19 excepti...
Bruno’s e-invoicing Quarterly
Here is the latest e-invoicing quarterly from Bruno Koch of Billentis. It’s almost customary for me to review Bruno’s e-invoicing quarterly, but have decided against it this time. However, I might pick couple of stories from e-invoicin...
ebdex Document Exchange - Read all about it!
Today, I decided to publish key documents related to development of ebdex Document Exchange. You would need to log in to edocr to view these documents. Please note that these documents may not necessarily be the final release. Feel free to use any co...
e-invoicing - where has the innovation gone?
If you are thinking of starting or have recently set-up an e-invoicing/EIPP business, ask yourself candidly how do you intend to innovate? I assume you know the fundamental customer pain you are trying to relieve! Just for clarity, this is to replace...
Cracking the e-invoicing conundrum - finally!
Further to my previous post, I believe I cracked the conundrum attached to e-invoicing today! Now, do not get too excited, as I have not decided whether I am going to do anything about it. Most likely, I will park it for the time being. But let’...
Once bitten, the e-invoicing bug remains forever
Let me first clarify what I meant by e-invoicing here. It is not about scanning and OCRing paper invoices with tight integration of accounts payable systems. It is about connecting disparate finance and procurement systems seamlessly, so that an elec...
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...
Billentis joins the growing edocr Community
Billentis, a company run by highly-respected ExPP evangelist Bruno Koch, is the latest service provider operating in the e-invoicing market to join edocr, your favourite business document interactivity portal. The document below gives an overview of ...
FundTech - What analysts said before the acquisition of Accountis
OK, as the title suggests, I thought of capturing the analyst sentiment of FundTech before the acquisition of Accountis. So without further ado, here is a snapshot of analysis from three firms in Jan 2008: D A Davidson & Co BUY. Price on 9th Jan ...
The role played by this blog in FundTech’s acquisition of Accountis
Whilst I cannot take any credit for the deal between FundTech and Accountis, I feel exhilarated at the service this blog provided in above acquisition. Here are some clues: OB10 #8 - Ready to be acquired! James Governor # 1 - Learning from a Pro I ...
Breaking News: FundTech Acquires Accountis
Acquisition further expands Fundtech’s product suite in the corporate banking financial supply chain JERSEY CITY, N.J., Feb 07, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Fundtech Ltd. (NASDAQ: FNDT), a market leader in global corporate banking solutions, t...
OB10 - Get ready for some real global competition
Up to now, the e-invoicing market has been dominated by OB10 due to their global expansion strategy, but this is soon to be threatened by a new M&A deal between two players I have come to respect. I cannot go into detail at present without breach...
EIPP and Card vs. ACH
There’s been some recent discussion at PayStream surrounding EIPP on the receivables side and payment channel issues. The question: Does/will EIPP drive ACH adoption, thus intruding upon middle-tier B2B electronic payments, an arena that credit...
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 ...
Forget SEO - Use edocr
Just now, I googled “e-invoicing”. Below are the results: Crossgate is at 10th place and this blog is at 9th place. What does this tell you? Crossgate has taken advantage of edocr to have a listing on Google first page for ...
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...
Copy of Bruno’s e-invoicing Quarterly
Copyright for this post remains with Bruno. My review of this posting will follow shortly E-Invoicing Quarterly 2008-1January 2008 In This Issue 1. European Market Outlook 20082. About E-Invoicing Quarterly and ...
The Power of the Blog (especially in the financial automation industry)
So… my company, PayStream Advisors… our biggest business is Accounts Payable Automation. We make the point to say we deal with financial automation in general, but in all seriousness, our sweet spot is AP automation. We’re successfu...
Ariba Spend Management Day is almost here
I plan to attend Ariba’s “Spend Management Day” on 27 November 2007 in London. The event has been designed for Executives and Practitioners with providing practical and actionable information on to improve spend management initiativ...
