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Do you ever wonder why it is that businesses don’t co-operate? Each business operates in isolation making decisions that appear to give themselves the best advantage. But it’s rare that they do get to an optimal position and they are not likely to unless they change the rules of the game. continue reading…

Today we understand that Tradeshift is about to lift the lid on a really neat innovation that will appeal to many small businesses. continue reading…

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 6, 2012 – Taulia Inc., the only SAP®-certified SaaS platform for Dynamic Discounting and e-invoicing, today announced its will present in two separate sessions at the upcoming SAP Financials 2012 conference in Las Vegas, March 13-16, 2012.  SAP Financials is geared toward teams that use, evaluate, deploy, and support SAP functionality for financial management, reporting, and planning.  Taulia will also exhibit during the conference at booth # 475. continue reading…

On the world map of e-invoicing, the Middle East and Africa are the most interesting. Within this region, there are very few countries that allow it but the reasons why this is the case and how we extrapolate those reasons to predict the future, gives us a view of a fascinating future. continue reading…

The number of e-invoicing operators in Europe has now peaked and we’ll see a reduction in numbers from this year according to Billentis. continue reading…

The global economic crisis is bad enough and forcing business to work with their hands tied behind their backs isn’t helping.

The failure of the dominant western economies, the US and Europe in particular, to encourage better business processes is testament to their lack of vision, their ignorance and their weakness. While their economies are crumbling, their governments’ paranoid insistence in archaic and bureaucratic  record keeping is allowing competing economies to take leaps ahead. continue reading…

People still debate whether social media and twitter in particular is a useful business tool for purchasing and finance people. There is still the perception that twitter is all about celebrities and politicians using it as a vehicle for self publicity. Well it is that but it’s much more too and as more and more people embrace twitter in their professional lives, it can be difficult to know who is best to follow and why. Now, if you are still skeptical, there’s a great paper that will help you out. continue reading…