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..

 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 

 Nordea takes a sucker-punch in its own game.

Nordea has today mass-mailed a notice to all software providers with the following finnish content (as attached). I'll translate the message here in English for scrutiny. I'm not a qualified translator and will take no responsibility that the wording is portrayed as the original sender would have wanted if they were to release the same statement.

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Regarding the status of Finvoice 1.3

There has appeared severe challenges in the..

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

 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..

Innopay has published a market guide on e-invoicing 2010. Its objective is to provide readers with a description of the market landscape and recent developments in e-invoicing in Europe.

Download a free copy here: http://www.innopay.com/index.php/plain/ezfileshop/registrati on/1120/7751/4 

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 European Commission organises a conference on Electronic invoicing in Europe on 27-28 April 2010 in Madrid. You can follow the conference via web stream: http://www.mityc.es/canalmityc/directo.aspx

The  conference programme can be found here: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/document.cfm?acti on=display&doc_id=5748&userservice_id=1&request.id=0

 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...