by Robert Solomon | Nov 14, 2013 | B2B Software, Construction, Industry Cloud, Oil and Gas, Oracle |
Major construction projects are a ripe area for Industry Cloud platforms. All of the key elements are there: lots of dollars at stake, many players on any one project (architects, engineers, owners, GCs, subcontractors, materials providers), voluminous documents,...
by Robert Solomon | Nov 13, 2013 | B2B Software, Industry Cloud, Pricing |
There is a lot of excellent literature on software platform economics. (Some of this literature is listed on the resources section of my website.) Yesterday, I ran across a new academic study that adds to this body of work. We generally accept that software...
by Robert Solomon | Oct 30, 2013 | Pricing, Public Sector |
A year and half ago I wrote a post about businesses being built by adding value to data coming from federal government sources. Businesses like Panjiva, BrightScope, and Mediagrif. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, I also offered a free idea to make someone...
by Robert Solomon | Oct 18, 2013 | B2B Software, Enterprise Software, Industry Cloud, Vertical Cloud |
It has been more than a year since I updated the graphic display of my intermittent, but never-ending, quest to map B2B commerce software providers into their proper vertical and horizontal segments. The new graphic below now includes about 450 companies. As with...
by Robert Solomon | Oct 15, 2013 | E-invoicing, Electronic Payments, Enterprise Software, Logistics
Reconciliation, approval, and payment of “complex” invoices is expensive, error-prone, and, for most big companies a chance to reduce over-billing. Complex invoices can be defined as those that have any, or all, of these characteristics: Indefinite...
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