by Robert Solomon | Dec 23, 2014 | Collaborative Project Management, Enterprise Software, Matchmaking, Supplier Credentialling, Supply Chain Finance
One of the nine value propositions of B2B platforms I have written about least is #8: Collaborative Project Management. I have always been troubled by three aspects of these type of platforms that are designed to facilitate inter-company interaction on a complex...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 18, 2014 | B2B Software, CPG/Retail, E-invoicing, Electronic Payments, Logistics
Not many people think about the topic of interoperability between information systems/ networks–how it comes about and what influences its form. How do I know? Spell-check does not recognize interoperability as a word. I bought a good book on the topic...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 16, 2014 | B2B Software, Financial services, Matchmaking
Being from Chicago, and having visited the NYSE and NASDAQ, I knew that commodities markets, currency markets, and equities markets had made a fairly rapid transition to electronic trading over the past 15 plus years. On the other hand, I had never really thought...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 11, 2014 | B2B Software, Farming, Industry Cloud
The New York Times recently ran a great article entitled “Working the Land and the Data”. The article highlights how important the cloud, big data, and software generally is becoming to the cultivation of massive crops such as soybeans and corn. If you...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 9, 2014 | B2B Software, Travel, Valuation
In case you did not see it on Saturday, the Wall Street Journal ran an article noting that 30 companies had gone public in 2014 at valuations less than their last private round. The Journal mentioned this fate was likely to befall Hortonworks and New Relic, two more...
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