December has turned out to be a major month as it comes to business within the world of e-invoicing. We have gathered over fifty international news items, views and acquisition jubilee here at the E-invoicing Platform over the past couple of weeks – but if you missed it, the Monthly Recap of December is your humble servant.
We published helpful hints, the latest news on e-invoicing, a list of major acquisitions and several developments from all over the globe.
Here’s every one of those stories from the entire month, waiting for you in an convenient format. So read what interests you, and then go out there and grab the benefits!
HEADLINES
- The Battle: Paper versus Online Billing [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Four AP Automation Trends for 2012
- 5 Key trends and predictions for 2012
- How important is supply chain financing to your suppliers?
- Taiwan: 2 billion e-bills in 2012, 4 billion in 2013 [UPDATE]
- 8 million Shanghai residents will now receive e-bills
- Palette Software welcomed to the E-invoicing Platform
- Ariba joins E-invoicing Platform as a sponsor
- The Economy of Standards: or why old school standardisation will never work
- FBI to investigate security breach in hospital e-billing system
- Why not ad marketing content to your online bill or invoice?
- 6 top reasons to keep using digital signatures forever
- How standards proliferate [pics]
- 6 golden rules to switch to AP automation
- 6 top tips to design the ultimate e-bill
POLICY
- The US have a new standard for electronic health care billing: HIPAA 5010
- AP Automation News: U.S. Government Research Institution Selects Kofax | PWC uses e-Prior for einvoicing to the EU
- Russians start with electronic invoicing as from 1 January 2012
- Compulsory B2G electronic invoicing in Denmark as from 1-12-2011
- Electronic delivery in Finland: Conclusions from a field experiment
- Bulgarion Port Introduces Electronic Invoicing
- EESPA: The European Electronic Invoicing Service Provider Association gets approval [UPDATE3]
- E-billing hits new US high, mobile bill presentment and payment is sky-rocketing
ACQUISITION
- 15 Major acquisitions in 2010 and 2011
- GTCR buys Fundtech for a whopping US$388 million through ‘parent’ merger [UPDATE]
PRODUCT INFORMATION
- US Postal closes 50% of mail distribution centres: effect on Accounts Receivable
- eBay acquires BillSafe: a purchase-on-invoice provider
- Palette strengthens North American presence through EchoVera
- Liaison Technologies Announces Intelligent Mapping Intuition
- SWIFT goals: 800 corporations on the network now. Growing to 5000 in 2015
- CNH America LLC selects Top Image Systems
- Ariba enhances its SMART INVOICING proposition
- McDonalds Norway selects MediusFlow
- E-invoicing News: ArjoHuntleigh selects Version One, Mercedes-Benz Germany selects Pagero
- Qtel forces its customers to e-billing, starting elegantly [UDATE]
- E-invoicing News: ADETEF implements TradeShift | A rationalised framework for e-signature standardisation
- Discover why b-process is so good [VIDEO]
- Skanska extends deal with Basware in Finland
- E-invoicing News: 3i Infotech and ORCC team up | E-invoicing with ShipServ TradeNet platform
- OB10 appoints Paul Frederick as US General Manager
- E-invoicing news: Striata has new Sales Manager Europe | EU e-procurement agency implements TradeShift
- E-invoicing News: Bahrein Batelco starts with e-billing | ORCC expands to India
- Einvoicing News: IBM buys Emptoris | FundTech launches InvoiceNetwork iPad app
- E-invoicing News: Artesian launches free e-billing for customers | KUBRA and Snohomish County sign new contract
- Liaison Technologies Video’s [PICS]
- E-invoicing news: Microsoft Empowers Ariett’s AP Automation Solution | Welsh Counties select ProActics
- E-invoicing News: Image Integration Systems and OPEX become partners | Montage select BirchStreet for Procure-to-Pay Platform
- Tieto wins Financial-i award for the SWIFT e-invoicing solutions
- E-invoicing for Tech Data Europe with OB10
- 9 impressive facts about Ariba buying b-process
- Tayto Group: a single global EDI platform integrated with MS Dynamics NAV!
- DTCE Digital Trust and Compliance Europe
- Itella survey about invoicing in 16 European countries
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