Manoj Ranaweera

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

Archive for January, 2007

Who has been most active in terms of marketing this month?

I just had a quick glance at key players in the EIPP (specially those who are considered to have models similar to ebdex) space including those who integrate with accounts payable systems. To my disappointment, Accountis, Causeway Technologies, Burns e-Commerce Solutions, and Tradocs have no news to share this month. How sad is this? These [...]

31 January 2007 at 12:57 - Comments
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As of Jan 07 DSGI (Dixons International Sourcing) & Tradocs part Company! DSGI no longer use Tradocs for International ...
14 March 07 at 00:35
I never ever managed to get to know Tradocs. Wonder what went wrong? Usually this is down to funding (and ...
23 March 07 at 16:38

200 blog posts over 297 days

This is my 201st post. I started blogging on 9th Apr 06. Here are some statistics: 1 Authors To This Blog. 200 Posts Were Posted. 11 Pages Were Created. 161 Comments Were Posted 80 Different Nicks Were Represented In The Comments. 9 Links Were Added For a live update, click here. What I really miss [...]

31 January 2007 at 12:04 - Comments

European companies raised €52.9 million last week including $4.5m for UK based Shiny Media

According to Library House, 35 European companies raised €52.9 million (15 deals were undisclosed) last week – i.e. an average of €2.6 m per company. Among the UK based deals were: Shiny Media – a blog network – raised $4.5m from Bright Station Ventures in exchange for 50% of the company. Shiny Media attracts almost [...]

31 January 2007 at 11:16 - Comments

29-Jan-07: New look – time for experiments

I moved my blog today (29/01/07) for the second time since starting to blog in Apr 06. Please bear with me whilst I experiement with the freedom this hosted version of wordpress gives. Do let me know your comments as usual and please reset your links. Any idea where I can locate the WP blog [...]

29 January 2007 at 01:58 - Comments
Hey, Manoj, you should get a Snipperoo account and make a Panel for the right hand column here. Put the ...
29 January 07 at 21:44
Nice work on the relaunch Manoj. Good to see you've ditched wordpress.com so you've got much more control over things now. ...
30 January 07 at 10:41

Success measured by transaction volume – A maturing industry

In Nov 2006, Causeway reported annual transaction volume in excess of 2.5 million for its Tradex platform, which has been operational for number of years and was originally designed specifically for the construction industry. Causeway also reported the value of transactions to be in excess of £1bn, i.e. an average transaction value of £400. Tradex’s [...]

26 January 2007 at 01:26 - Comments

Bruno Koch – the man behind EXPP events

Bruno Koch has been providing consultancy services in addition to running EXPP events for the last 10 years. His company, Billentis offers advisory services to clients seeking EIPP and EBPP solutions, similar to my idea of forming ebdex Consultancy. Bruno has provided consultancy services to more than 100 customers from over 20 countries, a track [...]

24 January 2007 at 15:54 - Comments

Closure of BT Transact

I spent most of this morning trying to ascertain whether BT Transact can be resurrected, as I saw an opportunity. Alas to my dismay, the decision was taken at least 7 months ago when BT wrote to their customers giving them 12 months notice. BT has made alternative arrangements for these companies including helping them [...]

24 January 2007 at 15:03 - Comments

NW StartUp 2.0 – 2nd Event in March 07

NW StartUp 2.0 brings software entrepreneurs and investment community under one roof. If you are interested in attending the next event, please choose dates you are able to attend from those listed on doodle. References: etribes this blog upcoming.org David Terrar’s blog TechCrunch – Sam’s old blog Tags: NW StartUp 2.0, NW StartUp20, StartUp20, doodle, [...]

23 January 2007 at 11:57 - Comments

Mybloglog Test

Recent Readers View Entire Community Provided by MyBlogLog This blog is hosted by wordpress.com. I have been trying to get mybloglog widget to work. Unfortunately, wordpress.com strips out many of the coding including scripts and style sheets which cause significant difficulties when you deal with widgets. Let me know if you have successfully integrated mybloglog [...]

23 January 2007 at 00:12 - Comments

Version One finally brings justice to their website

Have you visited Version One’s website in the past? Were you impressed? Probably the answer was "no". Have a look at their new website. Except for "Copyright 2006" at the bottom of page, it looks great. My disappointment is that there is no blog. But they have provided a RSS feed. What is also missing [...]

17 January 2007 at 15:44 - Comments