Archive for september 2008

Get connected in our LinkedIN group

Sep 30th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: LinkedIN, Recent News

The EEI Platform LinkedIN group offers your organisation and representatives many valuable contacts all over Europe.



e-Invoicing: Now’s the time to jump in

Sep 30th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Recent News

Finally, the promise of paper-free purchasing and processing is nearing reality. You’ve heard the rumblings since the 1970s, that all procurement transactions were going “electronic” — and watched as the efforts have stumbled and stalled.
But there are two factors at work today that are making paper-free operations (e-invoicing) much more feasible:

The cost of the necessary […]



Banking on Sepa

Sep 30th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Recent News

Banks will look to e-invoicing and supply chain financing as value-add services in the post-Sepa world, says TietoEnator.
The initial focus on Sepa was cost, but as banks seek to recoup the investment they have made in compliance, attention has turned to revenues. Europe’s banks are at the start of a road that will take them […]



Strong increase of Infor Baan users within e-invoice processing

Sep 29th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Electronic invoicing, Recent News

These Infor customers have already chosen for ISP-Invoice: Aimtec GmbH, Bouwbedrijf van de Kolk, Brush HMA, Fennel Technologies AG, Ikazia Ziekenhuis, Komatsu, Leolux Meubelfabriek en Thunnissen Groep.
Aimtec GmbH
Aimtec is a German implementation partner of Infor. In addition to the implementation of ISP-Invoice in German Infor Baan customers, they also use ISP-Invoice themselves.
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EC workshop eProcurement solutions in Vienna

Sep 27th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Awareness, Definitions and models, Harmonization, Standardisation, Upcoming events

The IDABC programme (http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/) is supporting the design and development of eProcurement solutions compliant with the public procurement Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC, by providing tools (mainly, the eProcurement demonstrators, the helpdesk service and the Functional Requirements) that can be used as examples and guidelines.  The eProcurement Forum, a community within the ePractice portal, is organizing […]



ETSI: 4th Security Workshop in Sophia Antilopis (F)

Sep 27th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Upcoming events

ETSI will organise its 4th Security Workshop to be held at ETSI Headquarters, in Sophia Antipolis, France, on the 13th and 14th of January 2009. The increasing complexity and rapid development of new systems and networks, the sophistication of changing threats, and the presence of intrinsic vulnerabilities present demanding challenges for the Information society in […]



CEN eInvoice Gateway and the Country Information Managers

Sep 27th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Featured articles

After the completion of the first CEN/ISSS eInvoicing Workshop in 2006, a second phase of activities was launched at the kick-off meeting on 7 May 2007.
 
CEN/ISSS
CEN/ISSS published in 2003 - upon request of the European Commission – a report on the standardization aspects of the VAT Directive (“the eInvoicing Focus Group”), and, the Commission subsequently issued standardization mandate M/339 […]



BLOGPOST: Equal treatement on its way

Sep 26th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Recent News

Source: Bo Harald
Tax authorities took a cautious view towards e-invoicing in the first round. In some countries even cumbersome extra demands were put on this new practise and crossborder invoicing was made difficult and costly as regulation started to increasingly differ.
Then there was a question. Why should not sending and receiving paper and e-invoicing be […]



PayStream Summit Wrap Up: AP Automation Inevitable by 2010

Sep 23rd, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Recent News

As the dust begins to settle from PayStream’s first annual electronic invoicing summit, The Next Generation of E-Payables: Electronic Invoicing and Supply Chain Finance, and before I go back to work on our Spring Summit 2009, I thought I’d take a few minutes to reflect on the week’s events.
The inspiration for the Summit was PayStream’s […]



Funds industry standards could be years away, says Clearstream

Sep 22nd, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Recent News

Interoperable standards between banks, fund managers and their intermediaries could take decades to emerge, according to European clearing and settlement body Clearstream.
The funds distribution process is typically viewed as being one of the least automated in the financial industry with faxes still widely used in the transaction process.
According to Tilman Fechter, executive director, Investment Fund […]