Maventa.com has today outranked Enfo Oy and OP-Pohjola Group with its existing Finnish customer base of 2377 legal entities and takes the third position within the Finnish operators. With a user-base across Europe in 13 different countries, the network attains over 12 new Finnish legal entities daily. Source: http://verkkolasku.tieke.fi

Instead of dealing with cumbersome implementation procedures or complex format conversions, Maventa takes care of the heavy-lifting on behalf of the customer...

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Please find attached my first blog at Finextra 

Sharing the best practises is the thing. Billing is my business and I was very pleased that my best practise was voted 2nd. best out of 150 best practises. ...

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Declining to accept paper and PDF invoices is already a reality in the Nordic countries. Many more corporations, municipalities and state treasuries are starting to refuse paper invoices as e-invoicing provides a more efficient alternative.

The article written by Johanna Andersén (Nordea, Nordic Head of Payment & Collection Services) can be found from GT News website: http://www.gtnews.com/article/7895.cfm 

Also, see the list of organisations who have set a deadline for receiving paper invoices:

Bo Harald (Tieto) and Risto Suominen (Federation of Finnish Enterprises) discuss about e-invoicing and e-services at Communication Forum in Helsinki, 2 February 2010 (in Finnish)

http://media2.goodmood.fi/vod/lvm/lvm_02022010_paneeli_3.wmv

 Too often I tend to forget that I cannot see around the corner. This means that I am spending too much time in trying to imagine the future. Instead I should take my vision and passion andgo around the corner - as almost always before there is something unexpectedly simple and positive waiting.

Green IT is an emerging topic and presents great opportunities for strategy development at companies and research institutions. These strategies include initiatives such as reducing overall power consumption, working to extend the useful life of products and providing equipment recovery and recycling services. There is a realization that IT is critical to driving a green agenda deep into organizations in response to macroeconomic changes, competitive pressures and existing inefficiencies in cu..

We have recently published a research paper in which we examine the factors affecting the adoption of electronic invoicing. External pressure from customers (public and private) emerged as one of the key factors from the survey data. Other statistically significant factors were: organizational readiness, perceived benefits and the so called “bandwagon effect”. Our research paper can be found at http://www.hse.fi/NR/rdonlyres/5D5F6A47-4FFD-4CD9-A09A-9EB21 78D0E71/0/PenttinenandTuunainen2009.pdf

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 We had 4 strong ideas in the final round of the Social Media Challenge:

1) Mihael Cankar, Laura Turkki, Marja Käpyaho & Dani Pärnanen - Improving support processes with social media tools
2) Jaakko Jäätmaa - Scrum-based social networking service
3) Miika Perä - Distributing incentives and resources by social graph and organizational data layers
4) Evgeny Paradeev - User-generated systems

The ideas were evaluated by the following criteria: originality, feasibility and value creation.

The judge panel..