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At the beginning of May I had the opportunity to meet with the Basware team and was briefed on the recent launch of Basware Analytics as well as some new and improved capabilities around Basware’s eProcurement solution. As many of you may know, Basware is a provider of eInvoicing and procure-to-pay (P2P) solutions, the company [...]

Last week I attended Ariba’s annual event along with Andrew Bartolini and Chris Dwyer. As mentioned in an earlier article one of the main announcements was that Ariba together with Discover is entering the B2B payments market with the introduction of AribaPay (read more about it here). In addition to this there was a lot [...]

Earlier this week I attended Ariba Live in D.C and as always, it was a great event attended by over 2,000 buyers, suppliers and various partners. I’ll be covering more of the event in part 2 of this article next week, today I wanted to focus on the exciting announcement made on May 8th,2013 regarding [...]

As we know, the EU has made significant progress is establishing rules and regulations around the use of eInvoices, some of these were new regulations that had to be implemented by January 1st, 2013 (click here for a recent article about eInvoicing in the EU). In today’s article we’ll be covering one of the regulations [...]

The European Union is by far the most advanced region of the world in its usage and implementation of electronic invoicing standards and regulations. Despite this region’s progress, there is still more to do. Other countries like Brazil, Mexico and Argentina have also made significant progress in establishing regulations around eInvoicing, however, they are very [...]

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend Concurs annual event in Las Vegas, Fusion 2013. An event that has become a focal point for the corporate travel industry involved more than 2,000 attendees and a growing number of partners including travel suppliers, travel technology providers and travel management companies. Today’s article is going to [...]

On March 12, 2013, after vetting multiple networks, RBS and RBS Citizens announced that Paymode-X was selected as their settlement network partner. Paymode-X is Bottomline Technologies cloud-based settlement network that currently enables over 200,000 businesses to make and receive secure electronic payments (ePayments). Just to provide a little background on these organizations. The RBS Group [...]

This is the last in the series of three articles that covers the various announcements and news items that came from Tradeshift Analyst event on March 5th, 2013. Previous articles include: Some interesting stats on Tradeshift’s network and insights into the Intuit partnership in Part 1, and A detailed discussion around CloudScan and Tradeshift’s upcoming [...]

Quick Note: Those who are interested in participating in our annual ePayables study click here to learn more) Continuing with the Tradeshift event in New York last week, let me start Part 2 of this series (Part 1 can be found here) by first discussing CloudScan, a service that Tradeshift created roughly one year ago. [...]

Last week, Tradeshift hosted one of its first public events in New York City. This intimate event was hosted and led by CEO Christian Lanng and brought together industry analysts like myself, journalists, bloggers, investors as well as a few customers. Christian began the day by sharing Tradeshift’s vision and his thoughts on the current [...]