The Business Case for Automating Invoice Processing A-SAP February 19, 2008
Posted by Bernd Kosnar in : eBusiness
Whether you’re the CFO, CIO or Accounts Manager, the financial, management and operational advantages of adding invoice automation to SAP certainly add up – to 95% cost and efficiency savings. Bernd Kosnar of Basware explains how.
Deploying SAP helps to put certain key business processes in the fast lane. Unfortunately, for many companies, this [...]
Procurement, The 3rd Generation: Spend Management on every desktop February 18, 2008
Posted by Jari Tavi in : Differentiation, Procurement
Spend Management has become an area where lots of “mystics” and “brotherhood in black robes” have created an expectation level that Spend Analytics, which is mandatory for professional spend management, is complex, time (read: money) consuming and sensitive to changes in systems configurations and IT.
Well, basically most of that is true as the traditional [...]
e-Invoicing is dead, long live e-invoicing! February 15, 2008
Posted by Esa Tihilä in : eBusiness
About a year ago we decided to spin-off our e-invoicing business because its business model and nature of the business was different compared to the main stream business of Basware. It did not fit into our core strategy, we said. Now we could say that it was the right decision to give a focus [...]
Why matters January 15, 2008
Posted by Esa Tihilä in : eBusiness
Why some businesses or projects deliver better results than other ones even if there is an equal number and quality of resources, talent and customer potential available? Here are some of my thoughts.
I have been running and taken part in many business process engineering and business re-structuring cases during my career. For example, there are [...]
Controlled Performance - a Dream? November 22, 2007
Posted by Esa Tihilä in : Market trends
I have written about purchase-to-pay process management a few times and highlighted key aspects of it.
For me, controlled performance is the key when running international operations in a publicly listed company. No surprises from businesses means good news. Planned good news are good news, unplanned good news are bad news. Planned bad news are good [...]
People on the move – Value from Mobility becomes a reality, finally! November 20, 2007
Posted by Jari Tavi in : Differentiation
I still recall the time when 3G technologies was still a hype that everybody talked and I clearly recall the high expectations which led to a significant disappointment when they never materialized. There are multiple reasons why development was a disappointment starting from availability and coverage of network infrastructure and market penetration of 3G phones. [...]
Governance, Risk and Compliance – Holistic approach and GRC architecture September 12, 2007
Posted by Jari Tavi in : Differentiation
There are certain industry analysts that whenever they write something, I grab the research and read it carefully myself. These analysts include names like Andy Kyte and Debbie Wilson from Gartner, Andrew Bartels from Forrester and Mickey North Rizza from AMR in addition to almost 10 other analysts.
Last week, I noticed a research alert [...]
“Wood for Thoughts” – Let’s waste paper! August 22, 2007
Posted by Jari Tavi in : eBusiness
In my role as a board member of BasWare Einvoices Ltd., I did a drill down to market details and was a little bit surprised of how difficult it was to find reliable numbers on the Electronic Invoices market. Well, according to one, probably reliable enough a source, the invoice volume in Europe alone [...]
Governance, Risk, and Compliance: GRC Dashboards or Not? July 2, 2007
Posted by Jari Tavi in : Market trends
Dashboards are cool – oh, really, how come? Over time I have become a bit skeptic and want to play a bit of a devil’s advocate when some things start to get over hyped. GRC (“Governance, Risk and Compliance”) is definitely an important thing to have, and every company that wants to play the “good [...]
Transformation with and alignment of the IT – How to support the company goals? June 25, 2007
Posted by Jari Tavi in : Technology
This blog entry is more or less based on my totally different role to IT from what I usually represent. On the other hand, my key role is ensuring that our product portfolio is competitive and meets customer expectations. On the other hand that leads to a situation where my colleagues and I are one [...]