Niko Myllynen studied criteria that companies use when choosing their service provider for e-invoicing. Niko developed a set of nine criteria and conducted a survey yielding 308 responses. The findings of this study suggest that companies regard criteria related to either present or future aspects of business as most important. These include the criteria of End-user Usability, Reach, Economic Viability and Service Development. According to the findings, the criteria that are bound to a single ..
The list of the progressive organisations:
http://realtimeeconomy.net/wiki/show/1/Progressive_organisat ions
Recommendations for the city of Tampere concerning the complete adaptation to electronic invoicing:
Comperensive internal communication plan: From top to bottom
Engage the chiefs of different departments to actively promote the shift to e-invoicing within the units.
Promotion to suppliers
Customized or industry specific informing in the letter. The benefits of e-invoicing should be promoted to suppliers in the letters. The city of Tampere should emphasize the reciprocal benefits of e-invoicin..
Ideas for promoting electronic invoicing by Sanna Moilanen k87174, Jussi Nykänen k84241 and Aino Heiska k87036
Promoting e-invoicing to internal customers
Start a training and promotion campaign for the internal customers (city units) to tell them what e-invoicing is, how it works, how suppliers can implement it and what are the benefits/costs for the unit and the supplier. This way, the unit employees can be convinced about the benefits of e-invoicing and taught how to sell the idea also to ..
6th European EXPP summit on e-invoicing and operator's forum take place in Munich on 11.-13.10.2010.
http://www.expp-summit.com/index.htm
Vattenfall in Finland will only receive e-invoices starting October 1st, 2010. See other progressive organisations at:
Maventa, one of the fastest growing electronic invoicing service providers in the world, today announced that leading analyst firm Gartner has named Maventa as a Cool Vendor in their newly released report on Multi-enterprise B2B.
Vendors selected for the Cool Vendor report are “innovative, impactful and intriguing”
Maventa’s award winning Software-as-a-Service solution makes electronic invoicing simple, cost-efficient and immediately available without upfront investments or process chang..
Electronic invoicing is typically an innovation that enjoys important positive network effects. The more companies we get into the electronic invoicing network, the more valuable is the technology for the nodes in the network. Just like telephone network, fax network, facebook etc. Metcalfe's law states that the value of such a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2). I see that the only way to guarantee the participation of most companies to t..
The discussion about e-invoicing is beating around the bush, at least when it comes to banks involved in the process of exchanging data. Having had the pleasure of working some of the forerunners in electronic invoicing (both banks and operators) I wish to elaborate on the flipside as well, by releasing this note about the status of electronic invoicing in Finland. The opinions stated within are solely my personal and has nothing to do with any entity I might represent. I aim to be as objecti..
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...
