aPriori expands enterprise capabilities with latest release of its Product Cost Management platform

-Increases ROI for discrete manufacturers in Europe and North America with new capabilities for costing plastics components, increased throughput and cross-organisation cost management-

aPriori, a provider of product cost management software solutions, today announced the general availability of the latest release of its software platform, aPriori 2012r1.

aPriori 2012r1 offers new

Free Record-Keeping App Shows the Importance of Being Earnest

Cloud accounting software provider FreeAgent has launched a unique record keeping iPhone app designed to help self-employed people and very small businesses in the UK to stay on top of their finances and tax commitments.

FreeAgent has developed the app - called Earnest - after being tasked by HM Revenue & Customs to create a free resource allowing self-employed workers and very small

Barclays Business and FreeAgent partner to deliver automated bank data feeds

Barclays Business and online accounting pioneer FreeAgent have joined forces to allow small businesses to automatically transfer transaction data from their bank to their accounting system.

FreeAgent has been chosen as the first online accounting software to deliver automated data feeds direct from Barclays Business accounts - providing

Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership Announces Impressive Line-Up of Speakers For The Business Show 2012

Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership Announces Impressive Line-Up of Speakers For The Business Show 2012

• Local Enterprise Partnership to deliver series of presentations at business collaboration event

The Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (TVB LEP) today released the names of the TVB LEP speakers who will

Review 2011 of the French e-commerce customer experience landscape, Feedbacks of over 9,000 e-shoppers on 65 major sites

Since 2009, YUSEO surveys each year the French e-commerce market through the customer experience involving large samples of e-shoppers to test the major French web sites. The “2001 White Paper” provides a definite milestone for any retailer aiming to enter or expand on the French market. Beyond the “basic” cultural, the review of the 65 major web

Vibrant Queens Parade Re-opens In Willesden Green

This week, the Queens Parade retail space in Willesden Green is once again open for business with a vibrant collection of start-up businesses and projects. The parade of eight shop units and offices - which has not been in retail use for many years - is now home to thirteen creative enterprises that offer a range of goods and services, from home-wares and interior design, to an art gallery and a

Budget News and Views of the business Community

Budget Impact On SMEs - Sage Comment
Lee Perkins, Managing Director, Sage's Small Business Division "The Chancellor introduced his Budget as one which "unashamedly backed business" and through cuts to Corporation Tax, simplifying the tax system for small businesses and providing increased support for start-ups and enterprise, the Government's rhetoric was justified."

"Commitments to developing

Slash Red Tape To Create Jobs, Chamber Urges Government

Business leaders in the West Midlands have issued a call to the government to make it easier for companies to increase their workforce in the wake of mixed fortunes on the jobs front.

Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Group (BCCG) said simplification of the initiatives to tackle unemployment would make a significant difference as ONS figures showed there was a slight fall in the number out of work

Family business continues to survive recession, thanks to the power of the internet

It is clear how important online marketing is to any business, after all the consumer goes directly to the internet when searching which is why companies have a duty to make themselves visible or risk becoming a needle in a haystack.

Outdoor equipment specialists Taunton Leisure have grabbed online marketing by the horns and as a result

NEW REPORT: E-invoicing failing to deliver

UK large enterprises deliver harsh truth as suppliers fail to adopt expensive and inefficient platforms

● 48% of invoices still have to be scanned manually
● Only 8% say their e-invoicing system is very satisfactory
● 57% agree e-invoicing adoption would be widespread if it was free for all suppliers

E-invoicing, long touted as a route to greater

Closing date approaches for nominations to the World Business and Development Awards

With under two weeks go before the closing date for nominations, the World Business and Development Awards have announced the ten-member international judging panel charged with determining award winners in 2012.

The organisers have issued a final call for businesses to submit successful initiatives in line with the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. All organisations,

Online: Changing the world of business forever

“…the digital technological revolution is changing business and all our lives.” Mary Portas. The Portas Review December 2011.

The internet is the most popular and easily accessible tool to anyone and everyone in the world…over 850 million Facebook members, and over 500 million on other social networking sites provide an indication into just how popular the World Wide Web

Cranfield Report on women in boardrooms is published

Financial Skills Partnership says we need women at all levels, not just at the very top
The latest Cranfield Report published tomorrow is expected to report that the number of women on the top boards of FTSE 100 companies in the UK has risen from 12.5% last March to a little over 15%.

The report, authored by Professor Susan Vinnicombe and Dr Ruth Sealy of the Cranfield School of Management, will

Gloople brings GroupBuy innovation to a new market, and a lifeline to UK SMEs

What is described as the UK’s next generation e-commerce platform, Gloople, has broken new ground in online retail again, supporting an up-and-coming company in delivering a social commerce business-to-business GroupBuy deals to SMEs across the UK.

Award-winning Gloople’s innovative Content Management System ‘makes shopping social’ by giving

Launch Of The Rural Economy Grant Scheme

he Rural Economy Grant Scheme (REG), worth up to £60 million in total, was launched at the end of February. REG has been introduced under the Rural Development Program for England (RDPE) and adds to the Farming and Forestry Improvement Scheme (FFIS) launched in November 2011. REG provides support for eligible projects requesting between £25,000 and circa £1 million of grant.

The scheme provides

£4.17 Million Of Red Tape Costs To Businesses Cut

A new report published today by the Government shows that around £4 million of regulatory burdens will be cut from British businesses between January and June 2012.

The Third Statement of New Regulation, which measures the success of the One-in, One-out rule, shows that there is a cumulative net reduction of regulation since January 2011. It also shows that the number of regulations which reduce

Over £1.5 Billion Investment Represented At Europe's First Ever Daily Deal Event

DD Summit Europe brings together top industry players for the first time.

Europe's first ever daily deal event, the DD Summit Europe 2012, will bring together over a dozen of Europe's most important daily deal providers on one stage in London.

The event's key speakers have between them seen venture capital investment worth over £1.5 billion in the burgeoning daily deals industry since the

Association Of Business Schools (ABS) Forges Links With Canadian Federation Of Business Deans

The ABS is delighted to announce the signing of a reciprocal membership agreement with the Federation of Canadian Business School Deans (CFBSD). Combined the organisations represent just shy of 200 business schools, over 320,000 students and 16,000 faculty.
Both organisations have synergy in their missions and goals including providing excellence through:

• Representation on policy issues
•

Trading Abroad Will Help Boost UK Business

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) are being urged to take advantage of the opportunities available to them to get trading and look at potential new markets abroad.
Speaking to business leaders in Cambridge at the Going Global: Helping small businesses trade abroad conference today - Business and Enterprise Minister Mark Prisk encouraged entrepreneurs to get trading and help boost the UK

Hays reports tunnel vision trapping workers and hindering growth

The Hays Career Outlook Survey has revealed workers are being trapped in career silos because they don't believe they can cross sector or industry boundaries, according to new data from the Hays Career Outlook Survey. The survey also highlights that employers in both sectors are often unable to recognise the transferable skills that might help them identify potential candidates who are