Most of the 1990's and early part of the current decennium was the period of achieving real time in information management and decision making within the organization. Real time in this context often means "within a day". Looking into processes between organizations (e.g. supply chains and networks) e-invoicing and e-payments are internationally the most discussed real-time enterprise solutions today. Even there the penetration of eInvoicing is at very early stages in Europe and Scandinavian and some other small countries are leading the adoption currently. In parallel to emerging electronic billing and invoicing a growing number of Finnish enterprises and some public sector bodies have taken several steps to adopt eProcesses throughout their value networks. These are the true leaders of Real Time Economy today and not only in domestic perspective but internationally as well.

In Real-time Enterprise Summit you will meet many of these Finnish and Finland based international forerunners who are all joined in the mission of growth and productivity through widening adoption of real-time solutions in their networks.

Essential keywords to dive deeper into the topic are e.g. real-time networked economy, productivity, data/document interchange between companies and organisations, sustainability, growing importance of mobility and geoinformation and altogether change in the way how things can and will be done in the future.

As a chairman of the day and on behalf of Tekes' VAMOS and Verso programmes I welcome you to join the Summit and the discussion here in RTE Community.

Please feel free to share your ideas!

Seppo Ruotsalainen
PROFict Partners Ltd.
Tekes VAMOS and Verso

See updated version of the Summit programme at www.soprano.fi/rtesummit.
Information on Tekes' VAMOS and Verso programmes can be found at www.tekes.fi/vamos and www.tekes.fi/verso.