Dolphin and Taulia today announce a strategic partnership to unveil a fully integrated solution that includes discount management, vendor portal and an accounts payable automation and optimization solution for the SAP environment. The SAP-certified solution enables corporations to reduce total spend,...
It takes several iterations of a good idea and a bit of sex appeal before it catches on. The iPhone wasn’t the first multifunctional device – it was just the first on the market to package everything up into an object of desire. I clearly recall explaining to a friend: “The camera is inferior, it doesn’t have Flash and the battery life is useless. But just look at it. I don’t care if it doesn’t work – I want one!” There’s a kind of mysterious synergy – the sum of the parts don’t add up to much but somehow, the whole is huge. It’s the same with some business and technology innovations. And in the invoicing space, it’s beginning to have a remarkable effect.
I read with interest an item by Jean-Pierre Foehn (Opening the supplier can of worms: can you really charge suppliers a fee to do electronic transactions?) that expressed, not for the first time, some fairly frank questions about electronic invoicing and the justification for transaction fees. The questions he raises are not new but it is good to see them brought out into the open.
In a recent report by Celent they report the surprisingly low rates of adoption in parts of Asia. China, Japan and India in particular are relatively slow to integrate electronic invoicing. Why is this suprising? The reasons for the slow adopting include tardy implementation of purchase to...
This is the 21st Century. The secure, ubiquitous global network that is the internet is established as an essential business tool that supports mission critical business processes on an industry wide scale. Messages of all kinds are transmitted between organisations: demand planning information, stock availability, real...
It will take a few months for the true impact of the decisions of the European Ministers to be understood but early observations suggest that an important opportunity to reduce the cost of doing business in Europe has been missed. As reported by eeiplatform, the proposed...