Erply

Erply is a winner of AlwaysON GLobal 250

AlwaysOn is excited to announce the 2010 AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies. The AO Global 250 comprises domestic and international companies pioneering in on-demand computing, digital media and entertainment, and greentech.

Read more: http://alwayson.goingon.com/AOStory/Announcing-2010-AlwaysOn-Global-250

Tradeshift now an Erply partner

Tradeshift offers the possibility to exchange e-invoices, purchase orders and other business documents in their native electronic format between companies and public sector organizations across Europe. The advantage of this approach is among many that invoicing details does not need to be re-keyed at the receiving end.

We're hiring: SMB Sales Consultant in the UK, please step up

Erply builds software that helps companies manage their inventory, points of sale (POS) and relationships better. We launched our main service in 2009 and are already generating revenue. Erply became a Seedcamp London winner in 2009, secured investments from Index Ventures, Redpoint and several private investors in March 2010 and has been heralded as 'the Skype of business software' by TechCrunch.

We're now hiring in the UK to accelerate our growth in the market.
 
SMB Sales Consultant
is a key role within the sales team of a fast growing SaaS company, based in London.

Your role will be about:

• Closing sales, some small and some with large accounts.
• Account managing our clients from first contacts to implementation and ongoing support.
• Helping us develop an optimized re-seller/partner programme for the UK market and providing training, support and sales aid for our partners.

We think you're an ideal candidate if you:

• Have experience in selling software to small and medium businesses or know retail and inventory management like the back of your hand. Even better if it's both.
• Are comfortable talking to decision makers about inventory, POS, CRM, stock control, e-commerce and business processes.
• Have experience in sales through a multi-channel environment.
• Have previously held an Account, Sales or Project Management role.

Write jobs@erply.com to ask any questions and use this form to apply.

Announcing our brand new InventoryAPI and developer competition

Today we opened up Erply with InventoryAPI. We think it's the best solution to use as backend for your web shop but you can do other things as well, for example build apps for mobile salespeople or develop something we haven't even thought of.

As Kris Hiiemaa, our CEO puts it: Our API gives control to developers and, eventually, our end users. Most of our clients want to do what they do best and this is rarely tinkering with inventory management software. They can simply use our software as the backbone to inventory management and plug in their existing tools via our brand new API, and create desktop or mobile applications on top of that.

We're expecting healthy interest from developers and we're annoucing a developer competition to fuel it. Build a web shop application using our API and win consulting time with Index’s Saul Klein, Redpoint’s Satish Dharmaraj and our very own Kris Hiiemaa. Applications are open until August 16th. Email inventoryAPI@erply.com to apply or ask any questions.

What we consider in assessing entries:

• Execution - this can either mean that it works very well, or it was built impressively fast.
• Innovation - does your application solve a problem in a novel way.
• Level of integration with InventoryAPI

Jury will consist of Erply developers, investors and board members. It'll be a good list of people to show your application to.

Hello from Erply marketing

Hello, my name is Andrus Purde and I've just joined Erply to ramp up our marketing. I'll be making sure we speak about our products in a simple manner, speeding up acquiring new customers, helping to create useful user guides and looking after PR.

I've spent the last 4.5 years at Skype where I wore many hats, for the last two years I was looking after marketing Skype's paid products. I've worked in marketing since 1997 and I look forward to putting this experience to work here at Erply.

I'm not the only one that has joined Erply in recent times. We've grown both in terms of number of customers, developers and sales people, so expect more announcements like this soon.

Last but not least - fear not, just because Erply now has a marketer it doesn't mean we'll start spamming you with useless newsletters. In fact, if you ever get any comms from us that you don't find useful please do let me know.

iPad Solution iPOS Adds Mobility To Erply

The landing page claims to have the iPOS as an optimised solution for the iPad and its 10.7″ screen. The service will be able to act in sync with the Erply service the shop keeper has in place. Furthermore, the service takes advantage of iPad’s coverflow feature meaning you can work with multiple views and functions at the same time.

There’s no information out when and if Erply is going to create the service. My guess is that they’re trying to tap on the demand with their landing page and if there’s enough of it – they’ll go after the concept in terms of development. Not a bad idea in the end, but I do think this would be a great addition to their already innovative service.

Another tip I have for them is to greatly subsidize the iPad for the shopkeepers, something that the bigger media houses have overlooked in my opinion as well. If you take the business model from the mobile phone business where you greatly subsidize the prices of the phones with 12- or 24-month operator contracts, media businesses and Erply alike could ideally give away the iPad for free to their clients with longer contracts signed up front. Solutions like these would pave way for predictability in the business model as you’ve managed to create at least a year long lock in to your service.

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2010/04/19/ipad-solution-ipos-adds-mobility-to-erply/

by Antti Vilpponen

The Accelerator Group: Major coup for Seedcamp winner, ERPLY

TechCrunch: Erply: Skype of Business Soft

The company, founded by Kristian Hiiemaa in Estonia, is a 2009 Seedcamp winner and is already profitable. Its client base is growing roughly 20% each month, according to Hiiemaa. They currently have 2,000 business customers and 8,000 users.

ERPLY on a US tour with Seedcamp

As one of the Seedcamp 2009 winners, Erply participated in the Seedcamp Week in the United States, which took place on January 18-22. This year's US week spanned both coasts - first we spent a few days in New York, followed by two intensive days on the West Coast -- San Francisco and the Valley, 

Following that we flied to the West Coast. Two more Seedcamp-organised events took place there, one in Silicon Valley, another in San Francisco -- both bringing us in touch with a dazzling array of Valley VCs, angel investors, business mentors and entrepreneurs, who were eager to share their experience and offer advice. We are proud to say that ERPLY received quite a bit of attention (from influential guys of the Valley, no less) and we got a great number of valuable contacts. In addition to that, a visit was arranged to Techcrunch HQ, where we -- along with all other Seedcamp companies on the US tour -- made a short product presentation to Mike Arrington.

Guardian: Eastern Europe takes over Seedcamp

The winners of the business summer school show that the diversity of startups improved this year – and with it the quality.

This year the business summer school Seedcamp was taken over by the Eastern European startup scene – and when that was announced, everybody applauded. Three out of five winning teams come from Poland, Romania and Estonia. The UK-based winners were Boxed Ice, situated in Bromsgrove, where the founder David Mytton started to work on a server monitoring application named Server Density while studying law at Birmingham University; and Patients Know Best from Cambridge, who work with the NHS to connect patients with doctors in a better way.

Including the additional winner Talasim from Jordan, a comedy community for Arabs online, these winning teams not only receive an investment of €50,000 each but also the opportunity to work from London for the next three months. Here they will receive active support in exchange for a 5 to 10% share of the company. With oportunities like this, Seedcamp showed again that London is the most important hub for startups in Europe.

The businesses were as diverse as the background of the companies. The quality of the new businesses seems to have improved as trends have dropped away. The winning teams impress with precise ideas about the needs they serve. They solve problems. Branient from Bucharest, Romania, is an open source video project that lets publishers put links within videos and helps them make money. Codility is a software and service from Warsaw, Poland, helping customers figure out which developper they need to hire. And Erply, from Estonia, offers business software targeted at smaller businesses for inventory managment, billing and invoices. It is already used by 200 companies and runs break even.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/sep/25/seedcamp-winners-2009

ERPLY is a Seedcamp 2009 WINNER

ERPLY goes to Seedcamp week

ERPLY has been shortlisted for Seedcamp