by Robert Solomon | Mar 14, 2014 | B2B Software, Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Insurance, Veeva |
A few weeks ago, I posted about Castlight Health, the healthcare site set to go public at an expected valuation of about $2 billion. Castlight did go public today at about that expected valuation. Its anticipated value kept rising during the week before the IPO...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 11, 2014 | B2B Software, Healthcare, Insurance, Pricing, Public Sector
This is the seventh in my aging series of posts on the nine value propositions offered by B2B platforms/multi-sided markets. You will be pleased to know that these last three posts will be brief! Value Proposition #7: Industry Big Data Industry Big Data (IBD)...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 4, 2014 | B2B Software, Foodservice, Healthcare, Industry Concentration
(This is the fifth in my scintillating series of posts on the nine value propositions offered by B2B platforms/multi-sided markets.) Value Proposition #5: Leveraged Contracts Leveraged contracts are a very small segment within the world of B2B platforms. Leveraged...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 27, 2014 | B2B Software, Construction, Healthcare, Oil and Gas, Pricing, Supplier Credentialling
(This is the third in my seemingly never-ending series of posts on the nine value propositions offered by B2B platforms/multi-sided markets.) Value Proposition #3: Credentialers Credentialers provide risk management and compliance information and services. In...
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 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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