by Robert Solomon | Apr 15, 2016 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Supply Chain Finance
Tungsten was in the news recently when its former CEO and then-current Vice Chair failed in his attempt to buy the company (see here). Tungsten Investor Day I’ve written about Tungsten several times before (see here), but now there is almost an entirely new...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 31, 2016 | B2B Software, Enterprise Software, Indirect Spend, Procure to Pay
I really hope IBM succeeds with its “cognitive computing”/Watson efforts. IBM’s ability to reinvent itself from mainframes to services to software and now maybe to cloud and cognitive computing is a true American success story. (Warren Buffett is betting on it...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 30, 2016 | B2B Software, Indirect Spend, Supply Chain Finance
I only attended part of the first day of the Global Procurement Tech Summit, but in that time, I made several observations not included in my first two posts on the Summit which you can find here and here. Procurement technology is a great topic for a conference. It...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 24, 2016 | B2B Software, Indirect Spend, Procure to Pay
One of the best scholars on the subject of platforms is Marshall Van Alstyne of MIT. Van Alstyne coined a phrase I love: “platforms always beat products”. For example, the iphone or ipod with their app stores and itunes respectively beat pure products that tried to...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 23, 2016 | B2B Software, CPG/Retail, E-invoicing, Healthcare, Industry Big Data, Pricing
Three separate events last week reminded me that every spend category has its “dirty little secrets”. Suppliers can exploit these “dirty little secrets” to squeeze a little more from buyers than buyers bargained for. Not all of these secrets...
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