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...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 11, 2016 | B2B Software, Travel
Occasionally we all need a break from thinking about enterprise software, right? So I’ve decided to begin a periodic series of (hopefully) amusing posts about my travel experiences. Why business travel? It is something I know well (1.5 million miles on United for...
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