XBRL seminar in Finland 31.3.2011
Real-Time Economy program organized an XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) seminar on 31.3.2011 at the Aalto University School of Economics. The aim of the event was to explore the possibilities of implementing XBRL in Finland. The speakers of the seminar included Esko Penttinen (Aalto), Bo Harald (Tieto), Lars Berglöf (xbrl Europe), Vuokko Mäkinen (Hawcon), Anders Tallberg (Hanken) and the sessions generated lively discussion on the different aspects..

3rd Annual RTE Poster Evening 5.5.2011
The third annual Real-Time Economy Poster Evening was held on 5.5.2011 at the Aalto University School of Economics. The event brought together around 100 people interested in learning more about the latest research conducted in the Real-Time Economy Competence Center. The organizers were especially happy to see so many company representatives (around 70) participating to the event. The evening acted as a networking event as well and we could see a number o..

22nd XBRL International Conference in Brussels http://conference.xbrl.org/.

XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is XML-based global standard for exchanging business information. XBRL is described to bring major benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business information. Learn more about it at http://www.xbrl.org/WhatIsXBRL/

What is your opinion on the ideas presented in the Green Paper on the future of VAT?

 http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/common/consultations/ta x/2010_11_future_vat_en.htm

Palkka.fi proudly presents a new feature starting April 2009:

A business using Palkka.fi can now save the salary files as a CSV-file instead of printing them out as paper files. The CSV-file can then be sent to the bookkeeper electronically. Up until now the files had to be printed out to be mailed to the bookeeping - where they had to be either typed or scanned into the accounting system. 

Thus the new feature builds up considerable savings both in time and delivery expenses for both parties. I..

Real-Time Economy programme is developing new technical solutions and operating models for use in corporate financial management. The aim of the development work is to enhance the efficiency and automation of financial management processes as well as the competitiveness of Finnish companies.

The project, Fully Integrated Accounting (FIA), focuses in particular on developing electronic financial management processes, taking into account the demands created by archiving, auditing and taxation. On..

First of all, because the RFID-tags are discussed to replace the barcode system in retail business in the future, some innovative uses for them should be discovered. Hence, this proposes an interesting possibility to offer real-time price and product availability information of all possible products sold in physical stores. For example, all the grocery stores could present online real-time information of the prices and of the availability of their product assortment by updating the prices onli..

I finally got my presentation uploaded and synced with the slides. The presentation, "Social Media Developments in the Real-Time Economy" is in finnish (but slides are in english) and was given at the Real-Time Enterprise Summit, Finlandia Hall, 6th of October 2008.

The presentation can be viewed here.

Keynote videos and presentation materials from the Real-Time Enterprise Summit can be found here.

Press release, 6 October 2008 

Speeding up innovation in the Real-Time Economy Community

The Real-Time Economy Community is launched today.
The main idea in the community is to innovate and develop new real-time technologies and services. The community is open for everyone to join.

The Real-Time Economy (RTE) Community promotes initiatives related to innovation and to the creation of new networks that enable the diffusion of real-time technologies (such as RFID and electronic invoicing). In add..