by Robert Solomon | Jan 26, 2016 | B2B Software, Procure to Pay, Supply Chain Automation
A few days ago, I posted about Ariba and Tradeshift’s unlikely “tete a tete” at Tradeshift’s event in Davos. An alert reader kindly shared with me the approximately 1o minute video of the Skype conversation between Christian Lanng CEO of...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 21, 2016 | B2B Software, Procure to Pay |
Okay, I’m not in Davos. Never have been, likely never will be. But over on Spend Matters, is a “sponsored article” (i.e., native advertising) from Tradeshift entitled “Tradeshift and the Disruption of Big Business, Live from Davos”....
by Robert Solomon | Jan 19, 2016 | B2B Software, Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Indirect Spend, Procure to Pay |
Until now, there have been two basic business models in catalog-based e-procurement: The Buyer Pay Model: Followed by Coupa, Sciquest, Tradeshift, Basware, and others. This model charges the buyer a fee and is free to the supplier. The Buyer and Supplier Pay Model:...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 12, 2016 | B2B Software, Logistics, Reverse Logistics, Surplus Goods
The aforementioned companies all compete in the “reverse logistics” market. Reverse logistics is the handling and resale of used, surplus, or returned equipment and/or merchandise. Reverse logistics is a gigantic, fragmented market suited for the...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 7, 2016 | B2B Software, Enterprise Software, Industry Cloud, Insurance, Veeva, Vertical Cloud
First Came Veeva Veeva (VEEV) is a beautiful Enterprise software company I blogged about over three years ago, just before they went public (see here). Veeva verticalized Salesforce’s CRM using the Salesforce1 Platform (nee Force.com platform). Using the...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 29, 2015 | B2B Software, Valuation
Fortune’s latest issue has a short article on Xero’s continuing efforts to penetrate the US market for cloud-based SMB accounting against Intuit’s Quickbooks Online. If you are not familiar with Xero, it is the leading cloud accounting application...
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