Archive for november 2008

SEPA and e-Invoicing: ECB progress report 2008

Nov 27th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Accounting, Archiving, Awareness, Electronic invoicing, Harmonization, Publications, Recent News, Standardisation

In the sixth progress report on the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), published this week, the Governing Council of the ECB welcomed the evident progress made on this project, but emphasised that work urgently remains to be done to ensure the success of SEPA. The sixth progress report also contains a list of “Ten milestones […]



Basware and OB10 form global partnership

Nov 27th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Electronic invoicing, Harmonization, Payment, Recent News

OB10 and Basware are helping save business customers vast amounts of paper by completely eliminating the need for printed invoices
      
Basware, the leading provider of purchase to pay solutions, today announced a global partnership with OB10, the leading global B2B e-Invoicing network. The partnership enables Basware’s customers to benefit from OB10’s best practice supplier enrolment. […]



Intelligent PDF: removing barriers?

Nov 25th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Awareness, EEI Platform, Electronic invoicing, Featured articles, Product information, Publications, Recent News

Last week, Adobe presented its intelligent PDF eInvoicing solution in a white paper. Adobe proposes an end-to-end approach in which the e-invoice is interpretable by both humans and computer systems. The Adobe approach is based on the eInvoicing processes as described by the CEN/ISSS Workshop on Compliance of e-Invoices and is expected to be compliant with […]



European Commission: webpage on e-invoicing

Nov 25th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Awareness, Electronic invoicing, Harmonization, Recent News, Standardisation

At the start of 2008, the European Commission has set up an Expert Group on the subject of electronic invoicing. The thirty members of the Expert Group should represent all key stakeholders concerning e-Invoicing. The members shall be appointed by the Commission from specialists with competence in the area of e-Invoicing on the basis of applications […]



First release of OASIS UBL 2.0 IDD begins public review

Nov 25th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Awareness, Definitions and models, Harmonization, Instruments, Recent News, Standardisation

The first set of UBL 2.0 data dictionary translations is now out for public review. The first set of UBL 2.0 data dictionary can be downloaded from http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/idd/UBL-2.0-idd.zip.
 
Created by OASIS UBL localization subcommittees (LSCs) to aid in global UBL deployment, this package provides translations of the 1900+ standard UBL business term definitions into Japanese, Italian, […]



Spanish Plan Avanza supports new technologies in SMEs

Nov 25th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Awareness, Country specific, Electronic invoicing, Harmonization, Publications, Recent News, Standardisation

The Plan Avanza has mobilised € 1800 million in 2006-2008 to facilitate the introduction of new technologies in Spanish SMEs. David Cierco, Director General for Development of the Information Society within the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade unveiled this information on the occasion of the presentation of the Prointur project (Profesionalización del Turismo […]



StreamServe chooses EEI Platform Founding Partnership

Nov 24th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: EEI Platform, Electronic invoicing, Members and partners, New members, Partners, Recent News

The multinational joins the list of Founding Partners within the European e-invoicing network. 



CEN / Adobe: Intelligent PDF and XML for legally valid electronic invoicing

Nov 21st, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Electronic invoicing, Payment, Product information, Publications, Standardisation

 
The following publication explains a way of using Intelligent PDF to support compliante Invoicing solutions. Adobe has worked together with CEN to create a white paper in which a relatively new type PDF solution is worked out.
The PDF is an intelligent message. The PDF document offers not only an optical readable invoice, but also billing data extracted […]



OB10 awarded a Green Apple Award

Nov 20th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: Electronic invoicing, Recent News

OB10, the global e-Invoicing network, has been awarded an internationally recognised Green Apple Award for its environmental best practice for the second year running. OB10’s global e-Invoicing solution helps companies of all sizes to eradicate vast amounts of paper each year by eliminating the need for paper invoices. The OB10 e-Invoicing network helps to simplify […]



French b-process becomes EEI Platform Partner

Nov 18th, 2008 | By EEI Platform | Category: EEI Platform, Electronic invoicing, Members and partners, New members, Recent News

Parisian-based participator broadens growing Founding Partner group within the e-Invoicing initiative.