This is the global support from SWIFT that the market needs. As seen from the work with the Single European Payment Area it is necessary to get a network standard in place first - and then make the market create end-to-end harmonization. This will happen faster if enterprises using these services and regulators see and drive the big picture - and service providers go for the inevitable network interoperability models.

This should also end the debates on:

-  if a global network standard for e-i..

Looking back - some of the most viewed posts:

On EU:

• Questions European Tax Payers should ask: http://www.finextra.com/community/fullblog.aspx?id=2815
• A digital Single Market - why and how?: http://www.finextra.com/community/Fullblog.aspx?id=4497
• The future of Direct Debit - e-invoicing with standing order: http://www.finextra.com/community/Fullblog.aspx?id=4156
• Far more important than SEPA: http://www.finextra.com/community/Fullblog.aspx?id=4020
• Enterprises - high time to stand up: http://..

 Based on the usability study carried out in spring and summer of 2010 a paper is written to the HCII 2011 conference. The paper presents the results of our usability study on sending e-invoives through banks' internet bank systems and discusses the problems that SMEs encounter with the systems. In total twelve SMEs were interview for the study.

 There will also be a continuation study with a larger sample of SMEs.

The HCII 2011 conference web page

www.hcii2011.org 

Post by Do Thi Thanh Ha (K238924) Chang Ma (K240349) and Daniel Njuguna (K87765) 

Tampere city can get help from third-party E-invoice providers who will help in training, and benefit from new customers e.g. banks. & Get more senior level managers involved to increase communication importance

Show benefits to all parties;

Suppliers

• Receive faster payment on goods delivered
• Improve stock turnover money received can be used to get other stock.
• Through an automatic invoice system, Tampere can also use ..

Improving implementing and attitude towards e-invoicing

• Assign executive owner
• Calculate € benefit per e-invoice for city of Tampere based on operational statistics
• Make calculations and assumptions available in the city of Tampere internal communication material
• Include industrial statistics stating vendor benefits
• Make e-invoicing tutorial and FAQ available on Tampere web site
• Arrange series of conference calls with slides web cast to vendors

• Turn focus from city units to vendors by fi..

by: Toni Pallaspuro & Tuomas Heikkilä

What can be done by the city of Tampere to further promote electronic invoicing?

Below is a summary of some ideas for the city of Tampere and especially for the Financial Shared Services Center to help in increasing the percentage of electronic invoicing among suppliers and within the city units.

1. Reallocate and free up resources by managerial decisions

Lack of resources was one major problem mentioned in the presentation by Nina Suni, Service Manager in..

 DG Infosoc is gearing up activities under the Digital Single Market headline. When this is being rolled out it is important to ask the question: Why? 

 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..

Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks will only accept e-invoices starting from 1 July 2010!

See the list of progressive organisations here:
http://realtimeeconomy.net/wiki/show/1/Progressive_organisat ions