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..
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...
Evaluating business impacts of electronic purchase-to-payment cycles (i.e. electronic purchase orders, invoice handling and payment) can be a challenging task without proper tools. It is not always clear how the IT-enabled operational performance improvements create business value (=money) for companies and organizations. This leads to two major problems: first, since organizations cannot see the potential payoffs of digitizing these activities, they might be reluctant to adopt IT applications..
The operators that act as intermediaries in the field of electronic invoicing (banks and IT operators) differ in the way they create value for their customers. According to the research conducted at the Helsinki School of Economics and Politecnico di Milano, banks focus on providing the market with an inexpensive way to transfer invoice data. On the other hand, the IT operators focus on creating complementary products and services to the e-invoice. In addition to lowering transaction costs and..
As we all know, by replacing paper bills with electronic invoices we can easily decrease environmental impacts such as green house gases and deforestation (calculate your financial paper footprint here).
In some European countries it is already a common practise to encourage customers to receive electronic invoices by charging an additional fee for paper bills. For instance, in Norway the fee is approximately 5-10 € per invoice, in Belgium 3,5 € and in Sweden 2 €.
In order to speed up the usag..
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..
Calculate your financial paper footprint.
This is the result for a person who receives 10 paper bills in a month. What do you think of this?
Be a forerunner - ask for e-invoicing!
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Let's make this happen!
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
Consumers also need an e-invoicing template. It would so much easier to send an e-invoice with your mobile phone to your friend's e-bank for his part of the tennis lesson cost - and easy to pay. But this of course means that he should have his e-invoice address ready to be sent - for example as an SMS to you. This we need to have anyway for all small services that we buy for our homes - were taxation demands invoices.
Which bank will be first with this?
