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...
by Robert Solomon | Oct 10, 2013 | Uncategorised |
About two years ago, I blogged about a company called EBIX, an insurance Industry Cloud provider whose financial numbers were unbelievable, yet whose market valuation was still reasonable, in part, because many observers figured the numbers were literally too good to...
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