The revised 2010 Tax Compliance Country Guide includes anew chapter for Austria.  Our strategy with respect to country guide production is to ensure that Ariba has independent verification for each of the countries for which we believe we have a paperless compliant solution.  As you may have noticed, the cadence of our country guide production continues to increase as we work to meet this goal.

From a compliance and risk mangement standpoint, the strength of the Ariba solution in Austria is very similar to other European countries;  it’s that we have the right end-to-end controls from enrollment through preparation, receipt, and processing of invoice data.

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Every second company in Europe sends and receives at least one electronic invoice a month. Correspondingly, over 40% of consumers receive at least one electronic invoice in the same time period. However, the share of electronic invoices remains below 30%, because paper invoices still dominate the invoicing markets.

Itella Information share key learnings of a recent invoicing study that was carried out on over 14,000 consumers and decision makers of companies’ invoice processes in 16 different European countries.

The main target of this research was to examine the present state, future plans and prerequisites of electronic invoicing in these countries. This approach covered the main types of invoicing, from paper to different electronic channels, such as email, Internet banking and direct transfer to the recipient’s invoice processing system.

This key learnings will help you to assess and benchmark your current solutions against some of the most efficient in the industry.

Read the entire survey here

Encouraging customers to get their bills online and also stating that this is better for the environment is increasingly being questioned. In the past two months, faced with being reported to the Advertising Standards Association, (ASA), several very large nationally known UK organisations have stopped similar messages, having accepted they were being made without adequate research, contravening CSR Europe and CAP (Code of Advertising Practice) guidelines.

Whilst the efficiency of electronic communication is clear and initiatives to reduce waste are to be encouraged, the Two Sides organisation, which exists to explore the Myths and Facts concerning the sustainability of Print and Paper, and has members spanning the whole Graphic Communications Value Chain, is concerned that incorrect and damaging impressions are being given if ‘go paperless’ initiatives are promoted as ‘green’ or seek to gain credibility by purporting to aid sustainability at the expense of the print and paper industry.

It is increasingly clear that electronic communication and in particular the energy requirements of the increasing worldwide network of servers which are necessary to store all the information needed for immediate access, has a significant and increasing carbon footprint. Electronic document storage must be recognised as delivering efficiency but not sustainability. In the UK it has been suggested that PC’s and servers may consume up to 50% of household energy requirements in the next 10 years. Greenpeace has reported that electronic waste is the fastest growing waste stream and there are extremely serious disposal costs emerging.

All those who encourage customers to switch to e-billing, or any other form of electronic communication, largely to reduce costs, should re-examine their messages as it is certainly questionable whether e-billing or e-communication has a lower carbon footprint. In fact, with all the environmental costs of electronic communication and with many customers printing out their bills at home for reference, (a recent study has assumed this between 10% and 30 % depending upon whether you are a business or private consumer), at a possible higher environmental cost than a centrally produced and distributed bill, print and paper may well be the environmentally sustainable way to communicate.

Paper is a renewable and recyclable product that, if responsibly produced and consumed, is an environmentally sustainable media. It is often surprising to learn that in Europe, where 93% of our paper comes from, the area of forest has grown by 30% since 1950 and is increasing at a rate of 1.5 million football pitches every year

And with 55% of the worldwide forest harvest being consumed for fuel and 34% for construction and other uses, only 11% is actually directly used for making paper

So, if your organisation is using messages that e-billing, or any other form of electronic communication, is more environmentally friendly than traditional print and paper, please check that you have not only calculated your own savings but also accurately assessed and calculated the downstream consequential costs.

Misleading environmental claims are not only increasingly being examined by regulators but jeopardise the livelihood of the many thousands of people employed in the Graphic Communications Value Chain.

It is encouraging that responsible organisations are now thinking carefully about the statements they make and ensuring that they are not simply repeating old misconceptions.

Martyn Eustace
Two Sides

www.twosides.info

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OB10 (www.ob10.com), the leading global e-Invoicing network, today announced that it is launching an environmental program that recognizes its corporate and supplier customers who are taking significant steps to positively impact the environment by eliminating paper from their back-office accounts payable processes.

The initiative, titled the OB10 Green Program, is a continuation of OB10’s strong foundation of facilitating good environmental stewardship among its global customers and their suppliers. Paper-based invoicing is still a regular practice among many companies, whether they are sending and receiving invoices through the mail, implementing OCR or e-mailing an invoice that is printed at the recipient’s end.

By transitioning to OB10’s electronic invoicing network, companies have saved over 60 millions of sheets of paper as well as additional resources that go into the manufacturing and distribution of paper such as trees, oil, electricity and water. OB10 is recognizing a select number of customers and suppliers that have demonstrated a commitment to sustainability and e-Invoicing by awarding them the OB10 Green Award.

“OB10’s e-invoicing network automates and streamlines back-office accounts payable procedures in a manner that is environmentally prudent and makes good financial sense,” said Jamie Gunn, Chief Executive Officer for OB10. “In the course of our relationships, OB10 customers and suppliers have demonstrated an enthusiastic commitment to positively impacting our environment. We will continue to work with our customers and suppliers around the globe in a way that extends their sustainability programs while improving their bottom lines.”

For Accounts Payable OB10 Green Award winner and OB10 customer Mohawk Industries, a leading supplier of flooring for both residential and commercial applications, selecting OB10 as its e-Invoicing solution has complemented its sustainability platform that focuses on the five “Rs” – reduce, recover, reuse, renew, and recycle.

“Within five months of selecting OB10 as our e-Invoicing solution provider, more than 75 percent of our initial suppliers had enrolled in the OB10 Network, enabling our company to eliminate more than 400,000 paper invoices a year,” said Tracy Bryant, Accounts Payable Manager at Mohawk Industries. “The recognition of Mohawk’s sustainability efforts by Newsweek, Wal-Mart and the US General Services Administration is a testament to the strategic position that sustainability is given within our organization.”

As an OB10 customer, supplier to Mohawk and Accounts Receivable OB10 Green Award winner, Congoleum is another organization enhancing its green initiatives by leveraging the OB10 Network. To date, the New Jersey-based manufacturer of resilient sheet and tile flooring for both residential and commercial uses has saved more than 375,000 sheets, or three tons, of paper since joining the OB10 Network.

Congoleum isn’t the only supplier on the OB10 Network committed to sustainability. OfficeMax, a leader in business-to-business office products solutions and recipient of the Accounts Receivable Award, has saved over 300,000 sheets of paper, or the equivalent 40 trees, since joining OB10.

“We look for partners, like OB10, who deliver a value proposition that goes above and beyond the norm and helps us extend our environmental policy,” said William Bonner, Senior Director, External Relations at OfficeMax. “We believe there is more that we can achieve, so we always invite our associates, customers, shareholders and neighbors to join us in our effort to minimize adverse environmental impacts.”

In addition to the above, HP, an OB10 customer since 2003, also received the Accounts Payable OB10 Green Award. The recognition of HP illustrates the company’s commitment to electronic invoicing as a component of its overall environmental sustainability initiative.

OB10 will continue to recognize those organizations transacting on its network that are committed to sustainability. “As more organizations and their suppliers join the global OB10 e-Invoicing network, we’ll have a greater opportunity through the OB10 Green Program and accompanying award to hasten the permanent transition from paper to electronic invoicing,” said Jamie Gunn. “In addition, we offer a substantive way for our customers to decrease energy consumption, protect more of our green spaces, and facilitate good corporate citizenship and environmental sustainability.”

For more information about the OB10 Green Program, visit http://ob10.com/Country/US/OB10_Green_Program

Selecting an eProcurement solution can be difficult, and a wrong decision can have immeasurable costs. There is no one organization best suited to this decision since Procurement, Finance, and IT all play key roles in the affected business processes.

This paper provides a specific framework and tools that any organization can use to minimize the decision time, optimize cross-functional buy-in, and maximize the likelihood of making the right eProcurement solution decision.

Download this paper, which provides a specific framework and tools to minimize the decision time and maximize the likelihood of making the right eProcurement solution decision.

Key topics featured include:

- Identifying stakeholder initiatives
- Defining tactical requirements
- Outlining selection criteria
- Gaining corporate buy-in
- A quick reference checklist

www.ariba.com

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Basware, the global leader in purchase-to-pay solutions, announced today that it had signed a contract to provide its invoice automation solution to Invensys plc. The value of the deal exceeds EUR 500,000 over 3 years. The solution will be deployed as a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery.

Invensys plc develops and applies advanced technologies that enable the world’s manufacturing and energy generating facilities, mainline and mass transit rail networks and appliances to operate safely and efficiently.

Invensys brings its technologies to a global customer base: Invensys(R) solutions are used in around 180 countries worldwide, and Invensys has offices in more than 50 countries, employing around 20,000 people. Invensys is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE100 Index.

“We are pleased to be delivering the Basware Invoice Automation solution to yet another global company. Our solutions are industry-independent supporting multilingual and currency needs, modular and applicable to companies of all sizes,” said Ilkka Sihvo, CEO, Basware Corporation.

Basware Invoice Automation (IA) uses automatic, business-rule based matching to minimize the need for time-consuming, repetitive invoice-handling tasks and enable efficient management of exceptions. Basware Invoice Automation optimizes process performance in financial departments and business units, enabling your organization to focus on creating added value for your customers.

www.basware.com

For maximum impact to your bottom line, what are the top five categories you should be sourcing now?
You can get the answers by downloading last week’s webinar for the European market, Top 5 Categories to Source Now.

Despite encouraging signs, there’s uncertainty about the underlying strength of the economy’s recovery. And people seem equally cautious about long-term demand.

How should you adjust your sourcing strategies to compensate for that? Replay this webinar to find out.

You’ll learn how and why you should be closely examining certain market dynamics before launching any contract renegotiation or sourcing initiative. And listen closely as Ariba’s global category management team spotlights the indirect categories that you should be sourcing today.

Download this on-demand webinar to learn how you can drive more value from contract management, build relationships and creditability with suppliers, and measure your success.

Download and watch the Ariba webinar here

Basware, the global leader in purchase-to-pay solutions, today announced the findings of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting1 on behalf of Basware, examining the performances of accounts payable departments in relation to the levels of efficiency within their invoice handling processes.
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The study finds that the best AP departments are 50 times as productive as the least effective2. Applying a complete purchase-to-pay process combining e-invoicing, integrated procurement and finance solutions, is found to lead to excellence in accounts payable departments, and increased productivity for organizations.

Examining the AP departments’ performance in terms of how many invoices each AP employee processed annually, the study measured the gulf between best and worst performing AP functions to determine what defines AP invoice processing excellence. The findings revealed a significant disparity between those accounts payable departments that are still relying on paper-based processes and those organizations that have adopted automated processes and e-invoicing.
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47 percent of the organizations surveyed still receive more than half of their invoices in paper form which leads to increased errors, delays and costs resulting from manual processes. According to the study, “the worst-performing AP departments don’t seem to realize how far they lag behind their peers. In contrast, 60% of those in the top quartile saw further scope for improvement. The least-efficient departments can’t move forward until they realize just how far they lag behind their peers.”

Combining invoice automation with e-invoicing and eProcurement within organizations was shown by the research to double the chances of achieving AP invoice processing excellence and maximize straight-through processing (STP).  Eliminating human intervention in the invoice handling and approval process cuts manual data capture tasks such as document scanning and data entry, thus not only increasing the speed of the process but also providing cost-savings within the business. By implementing purchase-to-pay solutions, organizations can gain control and visibility over finance and procurement processes and improve overall process performance.

The integration of e-invoicing and eProcurement works in parallel with the need to centralize responsibility in accounts payable departments to enable process improvements. Finance managers with pan-division responsibility were found to be more able to invest in better technology and processes than their colleagues operating at BU level. Persuading suppliers to send invoices electronically and offering them incentives for e-invoicing was also found to correlate strongly with excellent performance.  18 percent of the companies surveyed were processing more than 40,000 invoices annually per full time equivalent (FTE), while 25 percent of respondents needed one FTE for every 4,000 invoices or less per year.

“Organizations are paying dearly for poorly performing processes, with each invoice costing more than USD 50 to process at the organizations in the poorest performing quartile,” said Steve Muddiman, SVP at Basware. “We believe these study findings reflect the evidence we have seen in our own customer base. Integrated purchase-to-pay process combined with best practices such departmental collaboration between finance and procurement enable organizations to transform their AP departments to top performers, delivering cost savings and ultimately boosting the bottom line.”

To download the study, please visit: www.basware.com/forrester-report

¹“Finance And Procurement Work Together To Achieve AP Invoice Processing Excellence. AP Departments That Combine Technology With Best Practices Are Most Likely To Get Top Results”, A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Basware, April 2010.
²In this study, Forrester conducted an online survey of 100 large organizations in the US, the UK and France.

About Basware
Basware is the global leader in purchase-to-pay solutions with more than 1,500 customers and 1,000,000 users in over 50 countries around the world. With Basware, organizations can reduce the cost of buying and paying for goods and services and gain visibility and control of their entire spending process by automating manual processes, from sourcing, contract management,  purchasing and supplier collaboration to invoice automation.  Basware solutions and services enable substantial cost reductions across businesses and deliver value by providing compliance and control, as well as fast return on investment. The solutions are distributed and implemented, either on site or as a service, in Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific through an extensive network of Basware offices and business partners. www.basware.com

The Dutch project on e-Invoicing  by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (EZ) started in 2008. The aim of this project was to introduce electronic invoicing to the government. Concerned citizens wonder if e-invoicing does take up more energy than paper invoices.
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Several international studies have been set up to take a closer look at the use of energy by e-invoicing. The fact that in other countries a significant beneficial effect is found for e-billing does not mean that this automatically counts for the Netherlands.
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The Ministry of Economic Affairs has asked TNO to make a calculation of direct and indirect impacts on energy consumption and CO2 emissions. This calculation is made in a transition situation from a chain with 100% of paper invoices to a chain with 100% e-invoices. Analysis shows that paper invoices use up nearly two times more energy and 50% more CO2 emissions than digital invoices.

Take a look at the presentation by Paula van Hoorik, Senior Consultant, TNO

The new directive sets out to ensure the acceptance by tax authorities of e-invoices under the same conditions as for paper invoices, and to remove legal obstacles to the transmission and storage of e-invoices.

It also comprises measures to help tax authorities ensure that tax is paid so as to better tackle VAT fraud. These include establishing deadlines for the issuance of invoices, thus enabling speedier exchange of information on intra-EU supplies of goods and services.
Current EU provisions on VAT invoicing have led to a less-than-harmonised set of rules, on account of the many options that remain available to the member states. The aims of current provisions have therefore not been fully met.

Furthermore, compliance with regulatory requirements has hindered the take-up of technologies that are necessary for the development of e-invoicing. The Commission estimates potential annual cost savings for businesses at up to EUR 18 billion if obstacles to e-invoicing in VAT rules were to be removed.

Read all about it here

This analysis of E-Invoicing & E-Billing provides you with the most up to date and comprehensive analysis of the top 67 companies operating the market.

There’s a catch though, you’d have to invest GBP 350,- to :
1) benchmark their business’s financial performance,
2) identify under performing companies for acquisition
3) seek out successful companies to partner or do business with
4) understand the key movers and shakers in today’s market.

The report incorporates:

• a 5 year performance appraisal using our model
• an instant graphical and written analysis that tells you everything you need to know about that company and its strengths and weaknesses
• an individual valuation of detailing what it is currently worth
• an Acquisition Rating´ on outlining its attractiveness as a company to acquire,
• a ´future year´ outlining the steps needed to improve its health and increase its value.

In addition, the report also includes a 100 page overview of the latest developments in the market including: a 10 year trend analysis detailing changes in the market, a list of exceptional performers in over 15 categories and a breakdown of the industry’s KPI’s from sales growth to profitability, etc.

Click HERE for report details.

Source: companiesandmarkets.com

More and more companies are changing over to automated, electronic invoicing processes. The European EXPP Summit – Europe’s leading congress for E-Invoicing and E-Billing – provides the perfect platform for those wishing to learn about developments and trends in the field of E-Invoicing.

More than 350 E-Invoicing specialists and end-users from more than 30 countries are expected at the summit, which takes place in Munich from 11th to 12th October 2010. Amongst the exhibitors are six members of the EEI Platform: Accounting Plaza, Accountis, Basware, Certipost, StreamServe and Tieto.

Developing e-Invoicing in Europe
The High Level Group on Reducing Bureaucracy, led by former Bavarian Minister President Dr. Edmund Stoiber, has concluded that electronic invoicing is especially important for reducing bureaucracy. In its closing report at the end of 2009, the European Commission Expert Group on E-Invoicing put forward a number of recommendations for developing the use of E-Invoicing even further throughout Europe. These recommendations are currently being implemented at all levels, and many countries have already initiated specific projects.

EXPP Summit 2010
Europe’s leading Congress on E-Invoicing & E-Billing will celebrate its sixth anniversary this year.

Top-notch speakers will talk about their experiences with E-Invoicing projects over the course of two days. The European EXPP Summit 2010 will reward the participants with an exclusive series of success stories and best practice sessions from numerous industries across Europe.

• Hear the latest news on market trends, perspectives, standards and initiatives
• Success stories telling how the Procure-to-Pay process and the Financial Supply Chain have been improved and how they can help to reduce costs considerably
• Focus on the different possibilities for implementing E-Invoicing & E-Billing and for harmonising legislation in Europe

The mixture of lectures from experts in the field and professionals with practical experience, as well as podium discussions, roundtables, large exhibition area and especially the focus on Europe will make the European EXPP Summit 2010 a compulsory event for CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, Heads of A/R and A/P, Procurement, Invoice Management and E-Invoicing decision makers from all over Europe.

Further information and the registration form can be found at:
www.expp-summit.com

Businesses have spent billions streamlining their internal operations. Yet few tackle the inefficiencies involved in dealings between companies. That’s where paper-based processes and outdated infrastructures lead to lost revenue and productivity. The Ariba Commerce Cloud is here to change all that.

A unique web-based platform, it contains everything businesses need to buy, sell and manage cash more efficiently and effectively than ever before.

• Technology: Market-leading applications for spend management, collaborative finance management, and sales acceleration management.
• Community: The Ariba Network, the world’s largest Web-based trading community, where more than 300,000 global businesses to discover, connect, and collaborate. And Ariba Exchange, the industry-leading customer community for networking, sharing best practices, and collaborating with partners and peers.
• Capabilities: Market, category, technical, strategic and other expert capabilities that can be accessed on-site or via the Web to support ever-changing business needs.

Whether looking to control costs, increase sales, minimize risk, or enhance cash flow, companies can do it better in the Ariba Commerce Cloud.

Read the brochure: Ariba Business Commerce Solutions

The EEI Platform is proud to welcome the multinational from the British Isle to the European co-operative initiative on e-invoicing and invoice automation.  

About Ariba
Ariba, Inc. is the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions including Invoice Management, Payment Management and Working Capital Management. Ariba enables more efficient and effective buying, selling, and cash management by combining industry-leading software as a service (SaaS) commerce technology with the world’s largest web-based global trading community and expert capabilities and services to augment internal resources and skills—all as a flexible, cloud-based service.
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The Ariba Commerce Cloud delivers everything needed to control costs, increase sales, minimize risk, and enhance cash flow and operations. More than 300000 companies, including more than 80 percent of the Fortune 100, use Ariba’s solutions to drive more efficient and effective inter-enterprise commerce.

More information:

Baronsmede – 20 The Avenue, Egham,
Surrey TW20 9AB (UK)
Phone: +44 (0) 1784 487100

Website:  www.ariba.com
Contact:  Aaron Wargo
Contact eMail:  awargo@ariba.com

About the EEI Platform
The EEI Platform’s main objective is to support the penetration of electronic invoicing and automated invoicing in Europe in order to enable anyone to benefit from the great advantages that it offers. The EEI Platform focuses on the activation of individual companies, trade associations and the public sector to apply electronic billing and payment.

In addition, participants will achieve results on publicity, penetration of electronic invoicing, standardization, accreditation and promotion of the participants. EEI Platform is a variant of the Dutch Electronic Invoicing Platform (ELFA), a grouping of organisations in the Netherlands that play an important role in the implementation process, as well as substantive information, news, background and developments in the fields of electronic invoicing.

Participation in the EEI Platform
Participation in EEI Platform is not only for providers of electronic invoicing and automated invoicing. Participation is also open to users, public institutions, educational institutions and industry associations. Moreover, organizations whose activities border to electronic billing services -such as credit organizations and financial institutions- are also invited to join.

Visit www.eeiplatform.com for more information. Here you can check the latest European news, the EEI Platform Business Case and the subscription form

In the current climate every business needs to make efficiency and cost savings. And there are many changes your finance department can make to help. But where do you start?
Accountis is pleased to present a new White Paper ‘How to Make Real Savings in AP Finance’ which looks at 5 key areas for improvement in Accounts Payables finance and is packed full of useful tips on topics such as reducing paper, increasing automation with e-invoicing and improving supplier relationships.

Click here to download your free copy now (registration required).

Vodafone Czech Republic has joined forces with local NGO ‘Agency for nature conservation and landscape protection’ (Agentura ochrany prirody a krajiny CR, AOPK CR) to launch an environmental campaign throughout the country. As part of this campaign, a tree will be planted for every customer that activates Vodafone’s recently launched electronic billing service.
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The trees will be planted in seventeen protected regional areas and in two regions situated outside these areas throughout the Czech Republic. A total of 500,000 trees are intended to be planted across the country by the middle of 2011.
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With this initiative, Vodafone declared it is enabling AOPK CR to continue the latter’s efforts to increase the diversity of the country’s flora despite reductions in public funding. Vodafone launched a e-invoicing service for its postpaid customers in March.

Source: www.tradingmarkets.com

SciQuest, a leading provider of on-demand strategic procurement and supplier enablement solutions, and OB10, the leading global e-Invoicing network, announced a partnership to offer global enterprises a comprehensive and flexible solution that includes leading eProcurement and e-Invoicing capabilities.

The SciQuest and OB10 partnership enables suppliers to send e-invoices in any data format to the SciQuest eprocurement suite.  With OB10’s best practice supplier enrolment and ANY-TO-ANY DATA FORMATTING capabilities, the SciQuest eProcurement solution becomes more accessible to a wider range of businesses – giving an increased benefit to both buyers and suppliers.

“The partnership between SciQuest and OB10 allows us to provide enterprise customers and suppliers with an efficient, automated eProcurement and e-Invoicing process that is especially tailored for organizations that must address global, complex invoicing requirements and regulations,” said Karen Styres, VP of Business Development, SciQuest.

Jamie Gunn, CEO, OB10 comments, “The collaboration creates an exciting proposition for both clients and their suppliers.  OB10’s ANY-TO-ANY DATA FORMATTING and supplier enrolment expertise enables more suppliers to benefit from eProcurement and e-Invoicing.  The enterprise clients will benefit from this enlarged network and the associated cost reduction and efficiency benefits of the combined solution.”

OB10’s e-Invoicing network is operational across Europe, North America, and Asia, supports local language requirements, and complies with worldwide, regional tax regulations. SciQuest’s unique eProcurement capabilities allow efficient management of the source-to-settle process, including sourcing, shopping, contract management, procurement and settlement.  By combining eProcurement and e-Invoicing for all materials and services, global enterprises can drive contract compliance and gain greater control over spend.

About SciQuest
SciQuest provides a leading on-demand strategic procurement and supplier enablement solution that integrates customers with their suppliers to improve procurement of indirect goods and services.  Our on-demand software enables organizations to realize the benefits of strategic procurement by identifying and establishing contracts with preferred suppliers, driving spend to those contracts and promoting process efficiencies through electronic transactions.  Using our managed SciQuest Supplier Network, our customers do business with more than 30,000 unique suppliers and spend billions of dollars annually.

Our current target markets are higher education, life sciences, healthcare and state and local governments.  We tailor our solution for each of the vertical markets we serve by offering industry-specific functionality, content and supplier connections.  We serve more than 160 customers operating in 16 countries and offer our solution in five languages and 22 currencies.

About OB10
OB10 (www.OB10.com) is the leading global B2B e-Invoicing network.  OB10 simplifies and streamlines the complex invoice-to-pay processes. Neither client organisations nor their suppliers are required to implement any hardware or software, and OB10 is independent of data file formats.  OB10 can reduce the cost of paper invoice processing by typically 60 percent and can deliver an ROI in less than a year if the programme follows OB10’s best practice guidelines.

Operational across Europe, North America and Asia, OB10 is compliant with the requirements of VAT, tax and e-Invoicing legislation and receives invoices from suppliers across 137 countries.  To ensure unrivalled and rapid supplier enrolment, each new customer’s suppliers are supported by an implementation services team responsible for getting them up and running on the OB10 network.

www.ob10.com

Basware will deliver Purchase Management, Invoice Automation and Scan and Capture services to UNINETT FAS in Norway. The value of the deal exceeds EUR 3.5 Million over the next 8 years.  UNINETT FAS is the university and university college sector`s coordinator and service provider in Norway.

“We are happy to work together with public sector in Norway as well and deliver an extensive product solution package to UNINETT FAS. These solutions enable our customer to gain visibility and generate cost savings throughout the whole purchase chain,” says CEO Ilkka Sihvo, Basware Corporation.
Basware Scan and Capture services is a part of more extensive Basware Connectivity Services offering. Basware Connectivity Services consist of several functionalities which enable suppliers and buyers of all sizes and maturity to transact electronically.

UNINETT FAS is the university and university college sector`s coordinator and service provider for assessment, selection, introduction, operation, development and replacement of common administrative ICT systems. UNINETT FAS adds value to the sector in the form of cost-effective processes for the implementation of common projects, volume discounts for license prices and integration solutions, as well as administrative ICT systems that provide data and reports of high quality.

www.basware.com