The Blog - Part 72

The enterprise application bad guys

26 Oct 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, e-Procurement, e-Procurement Software, Electronic Invoicing, Procurement Best Practices, Procurement Process, Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay, Purchasing Process, Social Media

You can tell who the good guy is – he wears the white cowboy hat. But enterprise application vendors don’t wear hats so how do you tell them apart?

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Ariba bought b-process. Is this the start of the e-invoicing land grab in Europe?

25 Oct 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Ariba Buyer, e-invoicing, e-Procurement, Electronic Invoicing, News

I was taken aback. I really hadn’t seen that one coming. It wasn’t the acquisition by Ariba of b-process that surprised me though – it was the fuss that was made about it.

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Tradeshift – pioneer then disappear?

25 Oct 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

I wrote recently about Tradeshift’s new instant payment model. I was enthusiastic. I still am. But I had some misgivings – quite serious misgivings actually. The thing about taking a disruptive approach in any market place is that you have to be very sure of…

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Adapting IT policy to respond to the consumerization of IT

18 Oct 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Procurement Best Practices, Purchase to Pay

It’s been a difficult couple of weeks to RIM. The service disruption in parts of Europe then more recently in the US couldn’t have come at a worse time. With revenues down 10% and profits more than halved, (according to The Economist) it’s a brave…

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Multinational telecom giant automates more invoices with ReadSoft

17 Oct 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in News

Having experienced the benefits of ReadSoft Accounts Payable Automation for years in parts of their operations, a multinational telecom company based in Europe decided to expand the use of the solution to cover increased volumes of invoices. The agreement concerns invoice processing inside SAP and…

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Making sense of invoice management

17 Oct 2011 Posted by Simon Shorthose in e-invoicing

We’re delighted to welcome Simon Shorthose, MD Readsoft UK, as a guest contributor If you had to choose one overarching theme that sums up business in recent years it would be the focus on cost reduction. And rightly so, cutting the flab and improving the…

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Looking under the hood of the Tradeshift enigma

14 Oct 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, Financial Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Finance

Tradeshift are an enigma. Their revenue model may have you perplexed. Their tagline “Shift Happens” might raise an eyebrow and their animation for the launch of their Instant Payment offering – well is isn’t exactly Pixar. But don’t let it fool you. Behind the enigmatic…

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