by Robert Solomon | Feb 20, 2018 | B2B Software, CPG/Retail, E-invoicing, Enterprise Software, Payments, Supply Chain Finance
The UK government has always been more sensitive to its large companies’ (late) payment practices than US authorities have to theirs. Perhaps this is simply another example of the Brits being more civilized than Americans. More likely, it relates to the UK’s highly...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 20, 2017 | B2B Software, Collaborative Project Management, Construction, Payments, Regtech
Recently, I wrote a post about the opportunities created for enterprise SaaS companies from new regulations, a.k.a. Regtech (see here). The CBInsights Regtech market map in that post includes a company called zlien. (H/T to Ben Bianchino from EML.) Zlien is listed as...
by Robert Solomon | Nov 22, 2016 | B2B Software, Payments, Vertical Cloud
Last week, Deloitte released its 2016 Technology Fast 500 Rankings. The list covers technology companies well beyond software, but 58% of the companies are software-related. Perusing the list gives you the sense of what software segments are hot from a revenue growth...
by Robert Solomon | Sep 20, 2016 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Ecosystem, Key Success Factors, Payments, Procure to Pay
As mentioned in the last post, the notion of an ecosystem from the world of biology is a useful analogy for the ecosystem digital platforms must foster. It turns out, another biological concept, the “bow tie”, is also a great analogy for how B2B SaaS platforms must...
by Robert Solomon | Sep 16, 2016 | B2B Software, Ecosystem, Enterprise Software, Key Success Factors, Payments |
One of the first great books about platform business models was The Keystone Advantage by Marco Iansiti and Roy Leven. The book was published in 2004, so it pre-dated the success of SaaS platforms such as Uber, Google, AirBnB, Facebook, and many others. As a...
by Robert Solomon | Jul 14, 2016 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Electronic Payments, Payments
If you are a normal human being, your response to that headline should be “Who bought who?”. If you are a B2B Commerce nerd, your response might be: “that was so last month, where have you been?!” I’ll assume most of you lean towards...
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