by Robert Solomon | Aug 29, 2014 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Electronic Payments
If you are building a two-sided commerce network or a supply chain finance company (and who isn’t doing the latter these days?), you will benefit from understanding the history and economics of the credit card and procurement-card (p-card) markets. You can learn...
by Robert Solomon | Apr 29, 2014 | B2B Software, Consolidating Competition, E-invoicing, Electronic Payments, Oil and Gas, Vertical Cloud
The billing and payments associated with upstream oil and gas field services have been an area I dabbled in during my Ariba days and have kept an eye on since. It’s a gigantic area with many attractive aspects: huge dollars are at stake complex services...
by Robert Solomon | Apr 22, 2014 | B2B Software, CPG/Retail, E-invoicing, Supply Chain Finance |
If you regularly read my blog (and these days who doesn’t?), you have noted a distinct bias towards discussion of American-headquartered software companies. In fact, “bias” may be too weak a word. I’ve only written a handful of posts (out of...
by Robert Solomon | Apr 10, 2014 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Electronic Payments, Supply Chain Finance
When I saw the announcement today that there is a new player in B2B supply chain finance –that is linking specific invoices to cash advances– I thought “Wow, how many companies can go after the same market!” After all, invoice networks and...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 6, 2014 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Electronic Payments, Logistics, Media, Supply Chain Finance |
This is the sixth in my highly self-acclaimed 😉 series of posts on the nine value propositions offered by B2B platforms/multi-sided markets. Fair warning: this post is slightly longer than most, but hopefully it is worth it to cover what is often a needlessly...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 20, 2014 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Electronic Payments |
In my last post, I offered a new segmentation for B2B platforms, suggesting that these platforms offer some combination of nine basic value propositions. Starting with this post, I’ll discuss each of the nine value propositions in detail, using the same three...
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