by Robert Solomon | Jul 31, 2016 | Airlines, B2B Software, Road Warrior |
As you can see from the chart below, the price of jet fuel has fallen precipitously over the last 24 months. How has this benefited the average Road Warrior? Snacks are back on the airlines and they are better than ever! (Though the bar was previously set very low!)...
by Robert Solomon | Jul 14, 2016 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Electronic Payments, Payments
If you are a normal human being, your response to that headline should be “Who bought who?”. If you are a B2B Commerce nerd, your response might be: “that was so last month, where have you been?!” I’ll assume most of you lean towards...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 28, 2016 | B2B Software, Managed Services
In industry after industry, managed service providers face pressure to automate and stave off disintermediation by marketplaces, exchanges, or online distribution platforms (see here). In these industries, both self-service technologies and managed service...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 24, 2016 | B2B Software, Oracle, Procure to Pay
The 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites is out and that is important to some of you, so I thought I would share part of it. (I received a copy of the report which says “licensed for distribution” from a vendor website. The document...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 16, 2016 | B2B Software, Matchmaking, Travel, Vertical Cloud
It’s fun to see two different business models go head to head in the same market. It’s also fun to watch a gigantic marketplace change its business model. Both of these phenomena are happening in the C2C lodging space. Airbnb and HomeAway have different...
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