by Robert Solomon | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorised |
I’ve followed several hundred B2B platforms and multi-sided marketplaces for the past three years. Initially, I segmented these platforms by vertical industry or by the portion of the source to settle process they automated (see here). Over time, many of the...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 13, 2014 | Logistics
Global Trade Management (GTM) provider, Amber Road recently filed to go public, adding to the list of enterprise SaaS providers going public while the going is good. You may not recognize Amber Road, in part because for many years it went by the incredibly bland...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 11, 2014 | B2B Software, Healthcare
Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, made headlines last week (of the bad kind) by suggesting that he was going to modify AOL’s 401k plan because AOL’s healthcare costs had been driven through the roof by two “distressed babies” and Obamacare....
by Robert Solomon | Feb 7, 2014 | B2B Software, Media
Two more enterprise SaaS plays plan to go public: Paylocity and The Rubicon Project. Paylocity is not a network or Industry Cloud play, it is a SaaS payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) application targeted squarely at the mid-market–companies with 20 to...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 5, 2014 | Airlines, Automobile, CPG/Retail, Healthcare, Industry Cloud
GHX, one of the early industry marketplace consortia (2000 anyone?), announced today that it had been acquired by Thoma Bravo a PE Firm. GHX was originally a consortium of suppliers to the healthcare industry–sort of the opposite of a GPO. Over time GHX added...
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