by Robert Solomon | Mar 10, 2015 | B2B Software, Electronic Payments, Supply Chain Automation, Supply Chain Finance
My previous post on global payments attempted to convince you that the cross-border segment of global payments is fast-growing and has an attractive profit pool. In this post, I focus on the challenge of cross border payments and the first of two public companies...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 7, 2015 | B2B Software, Electronic Payments
I love businesses with a simple goal to replace paperwork (e.g., postage, paper and workflow) with electronic transactions. This includes e-procurement, e-invoicing, and e-payments in both the business and consumer worlds. These businesses are easy to love because:...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 27, 2015 | B2B Software, Indirect Spend, Procure to Pay
I try not to blog much about indirect spend procure-to-pay suites (e.g. Ariba, Sciquest, Verian, Coupa, and many others). (Indirect spend being the stuff bought and consumed by a company, not its customers.) But a quick look at the Wall Street Journal this morning...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 24, 2015 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Supply Chain Finance
In 2013, after Tungsten Corporation acquired OB10 (a leading European e-invoicing provider), bought a bank, and went public with a market cap of £225 million, I wrote that this grand experiment would be fun to watch. It has been even more fascinating than I expected....
by Robert Solomon | Feb 17, 2015 | B2B Software
Of course, by unicorns I mean tech “start-ups” with $1 billion-plus valuations. Fortune’s cover story entitled “The Age of Unicorns”provides a handy list of such unicorns and this nifty graphic. You will see a few enterprise examples...
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