by Robert Solomon | Dec 1, 2017 | B2B Software, Financial services, Industry Big Data, Insurance, Oil and Gas
Unless you are a true B2B software nerd (which many of you are), you just thought to yourself, “Who bought who?” After all, neither the acquirer nor the acquiree is exactly a household name. Nonetheless, Verisk Analytics and PowerAdvocate are great...
by Robert Solomon | Oct 6, 2017 | B2B Software, Consolidating Competition, Financial services, Industry Big Data
At almost exactly this same time in 2016 and 2015 I wrote about the consortia of banks, Symphony, trying to take on one of the most successful enterprise software platforms of all time: Bloomberg (see here and here). Now comes the 2017 update: the battle is on!...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 23, 2016 | B2B Software, CPG/Retail, E-invoicing, Healthcare, Industry Big Data, Pricing
Three separate events last week reminded me that every spend category has its “dirty little secrets”. Suppliers can exploit these “dirty little secrets” to squeeze a little more from buyers than buyers bargained for. Not all of these secrets...
by Robert Solomon | Sep 1, 2015 | B2B Software, Farming, Industry Big Data, Industry Cloud, Industry Concentration
Four years ago, Marc Andreesen famously penned a column in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Why Software is Eating The World”. Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article on the increasing tendency for software to be eating our food....
by Robert Solomon | Aug 7, 2015 | B2B Software, Industry Big Data
It’s pretty rare that B2B software platforms make to the front page of the Wall Street Journal. But Yodlee pulled it off today. If you know Yodlee, it may be through their “screen-scraping” technology sold to folks like Mint. Yodlee is the...
by Robert Solomon | May 4, 2015 | B2B Software, CPG/Retail, Industry Big Data
The news last week that MasterCard plans to acquire Applied Predictive Technologies deserves a bit more attention. Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) is a provider of software and services for designing and evaluating a variety of tests: marketing, merchandising,...
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