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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...
United Data #2 - Teaming up with Accountancy Age
According to David Ferdinando, Regional Director - London South of United Data: “The decision to sponsor the Accountancy Age awards was a natural choice. Over the next three to four years, the impact of ‘open networks’ will...
BasWare acquires my neighbour Digital Vision Technologies
The news of acquisition of Digital Vision Technologies by BasWare was broken to me at the ExPP Summit. Apologies for taking so long to write about it. Better late than never though. Digital Vision based in Northwich, Cheshire is a system integrator w...
ExPP Summit #1 - Assembly of e-invoicing community
The 3rd ExPP Summit was held on 10th and 11th of September at Millenium Glocester Hotel in London. I attended both days as a guest of Bruno Koch of Billentis. Bruno who organised the event with Johannes von Mulert of Vereon AG is to be congratulated...
OB10 #8 - Ready to be acquired!
According to VentureCast, a production of Library House, one of the most accessed companies recently is none other than OB10. The company profile from VenturePedia (another production of Library House) can be downloaded for ?50 from...
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...
Abbey’s Supplier Payments #2 - The A Team
Whilst there has been much talk, I believe Abbey is the second company to offer a supply chain finance solution in the UK after GMAC Commercial Finance, which uses Deskom. Between the two propositions, I believe Abbey has the best chance of maki...
United Data Ltd # 1 - Mark Morahan is back!
There has been numerous occasions when I wanted to write about Mark Morahan but have resisted the temptation. But this article caught my eye. I came to know Mark through Morahan International, he set-up with few colleagues in 2003/04. Instead of talk...
OB10 #7 - OB10 teams up with GXS
On 19 July 2007, OB10 and GXS announced a partnership to build an integrated e-invoicing solution. Few years ago, perhaps this would not have happened. XML was going to rule the world - EDI was dead, they said. Today, the level of market penetration...
OB10 # 6 - Abbey UK Partners with OB10 and becomes a customer at the same time!
According to the press release today, OB10 has announced a partnership with Abbey UK Corporate Banking, part of Santander Group. The emphasis is on cash flow benefits and processing cost savings to businesses in the UK, Europe and internationally. Ac...
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 #2 - The product
Having said how great Transcepta is with respect to helping the small guy, let’s quickly look at their accounts payable and accounts receivable products and services. Accounts Payable (A/P) & Accounts Receivable (A/R) Automation Once again...
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...
OB10 #5 - Teams up with KeyMark
KeyMark, a document capture, management and workflow systems vendor founded in 1996 has teamed up OB10 to provide electronic invoice processing in their KeyTrack solution, which automates AP processes. According to the press release: KeyMark CEO Jim...
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...
