Manoj Ranaweera

Building a great tech company (edocr.com) and tech ecosystem (techcelerate.org) in the north of England

Archive for May, 2006

Dennis Howlett – The master Blogger on accountancy, enterprise and integration software

Dennis Howlett is one of the few individuals who influenced me to start this blog in early April 06. I have been a keen reader of Accman Pro since start of my blog. It seems Den also runs two other blogs, these being Enterprisey and Integration Monitor (perhaps there is more..). Den speaks about anything [...]

31 May 2006 at 05:45 - Comments

Article 5: Another Introduction to ebdex Document Exchange

ebdex Document Exchange is a Business-to-Business (B2B) solution that sits between various accounting and enterprise software systems used by companies, automatically allowing these disparate systems to ‘talk’ to each other and transmit all manner of structured documents, without manual handling. It requires no capital spend by users in order to adopt it into use, requires [...]

26 May 2006 at 00:30 - Comments

Zansibar – The Technology relationship

What an awful picture? Surely, the UK Government can afford a better image than this to describe the complex arrangements between public sector buyers and suppliers of products and solutions through its multi million £ web based hosted and management e-Commerce platform (I know there is a slighly better image elsewhere)! I assume you have [...]

25 May 2006 at 17:10 - Comments

Great debate about Supply Chain Management vs. Spend Mangement

There is a great debate taking place within number of prominent North American blogs about supply chain management vs. spend management. These being, Tim Minahan’s Supply Excellence, Jason Busch’s Spend Matters. Dave Stephens’ Procurement Central and Dave Bush’s eSourcing Forum. There may well be others.. In UK, procurement and supply chain management are the terms [...]

24 May 2006 at 01:16 - Comments

Article 4: What business are we in? Document Exchange or EIPP

Very interesting question! The competitive landscape changes according to the response given. What is the primary business of ebdex? We are in the business of allowing organisations to exchange structured documents with their trading partners (suppliers, customers, partners, resellers, etc) utilising investments already made in technology (no need for new hardware or software licenses). This [...]

24 May 2006 at 00:42 - Comments

Open Source Software vs. Sun Microsystems

Is Open Source software really free? My limited knowledge suggests you still have to pay for support. Same can be said for record beating Solaris 10 from Sun Microsystems (in fact all Sun Software is free and you just pay for support). So now you have a real choice. Sun offers an alternative to Windows [...]

17 May 2006 at 20:25 - Comments
Depends on the type of licence granted asto what yo upay for. Free is the usual thing with no support ...
19 May 06 at 04:41
But not always the case. I believe OpenCRM claims its software is free. But they charge for hosting. They do ...
19 May 06 at 05:02

External Sales Consultants on Revenue Share – We need you?

With the imminent launch of ebdex Document Exchange, we are currently recruiting External Sales Consultants on revenue share basis. You have the opportunity to earn well over £100,000 per annum. If interested, please get in touch through http://www.ebdex.co.uk/jobs.html. Please state three reasons why we ought to consider you for this role. We are looking for [...]

16 May 2006 at 17:24 - Comments
Better still - how about giving potential applciations 3 reasons why you're a great firm to join?
19 May 06 at 06:35
Thanks Dennis. Will update this shortly.
19 May 06 at 07:40

How famous have I become since start of this blog?

I just spent few minutes trying to understand the power of blogging in making “Manoj Ranaweera” famous. Here are the results to my astonishment: Search word: Manoj On Google – Not within Top 10 Google UK – 5 (ecademy) and 7 (ebdex) Search word: Ranaweera On Google: 2 (blog), 4 (deal architect) and 6 (ecademy) [...]

16 May 2006 at 11:26 - Comments

Infor to acquire SSA Global – Threat to SAP and Oracle?

SSA Global announced signing of a definitive agreement which allows the company to be acquired by Infor, creating third largest ERP vendor. The combined entity will have over £1.6bn sales revenues. Infor has recently acquired number of companies, causing concern within customer base for product continuation. Tags: SSA Global, ERP, Infor, acquisitions Download as PDF

15 May 2006 at 22:23 - Comments

EIPP is hotting up – Sprinter from Bottomline Technologies

Recently, Bottomline Technologies announced an Integrated Solution for End-to-End Purchase-to-Pay Automation. Bottomline has been in the Electronic Invoicing Presentment and Payment (EIPP) (also called e-invoicing) market for number of years, have supplied solutions to many organisations across Europe and North America. What is so special about, Sprinter? Its claimed to be a modular solution that [...]

12 May 2006 at 05:40 - Comments