The Blog - Part 42

Intuit and Tradeshift – Jason Busch’s viewpoint

18 Mar 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

Jason Busch is Spend Matters. He started Spend Matters almost 10 years ago and has grown it into what is arguably the best online resource for purchasing professionals. I met him a couple of weeks ago at the Tradeshift analyst day together with Pierre Mitchell…

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Compulsory use of e-invoicing likely to increase

14 Mar 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

The Department of Veterans Affairs Financial Services Center (VAFSC) in the US has just become the latest government entity to mandate the use of electronic invoicing supporting the Improper Payment Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act signed by President Obama in January this year. Analysts and…

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The 4 most pointless business practices

13 Mar 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

Small business can be forgiven. When you start a business you want to get it right and there isn’t always the time to understand why you do all things you do. You need a website. Why? Because you do. And a twitter account and a…

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Cloud computing and the constraints of 2006 thinking

12 Mar 2013 Posted by Ian Burdon in Cloud Computing

There remains a lot of gobbledygook talked and written about “Cloud” computing, as anyone who has been around the industry for any time is very well aware. For the most part it is a species of marketing for a particular consumption model which does not…

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The Post Office – the most compelling business case for e-invoicing

11 Mar 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, Financial Supply Chain Management, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process, Supply Chain Finance

New York – the lights, the excitement, the glamor, the Post Office. A compelling argument for electronic invoicing.

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OB10 Express Payments named as innovator finalist

08 Mar 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in News

OB10 has been named as a finalist for a 2013 Innovator award in the category of Best B2B Payments Innovation for OB10 Express Payments, a unique early payment solution. One of five finalists in their category, OB10 is being recognized as a leader in the…

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Close encounters of a celebrity kind in New York

08 Mar 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Shared Services

Travel is always an adventure and I love coming home with tales to tell of unexpected encounters and once in a lifetime experiences. In New York this week, I was absolutely thrilled to find myself amongst a bunch of paparazzi at JFK waiting to shoot…

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