“Hidden” Payments Businesses
Payments businesses come in all Stripes (pun intended). But here are a few that are “hidden” inside public companies or behind other software functions.
2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites (with Market Caps)
The 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites vividly demonstrates the intense race for a clear #3 to emerge to challenge SAP and Coupa.
Deja-Vu: Enterprise Software (Even Source to Pay) is Red-Hot Again
If you stick around long enough, everything old is new again. At least it sure seemed that way in enterprise software last week.
E2Open Proposes To Acquire Amber Road (AMBR)
E2Open offered to acquire Amber Road. Amber Road is playing it cool, but the logic of building another direct materials commerce network is compelling.
Form 5500: One Government Form Spawns Several Businesses
Several companies have spun some gold from the data buried in the federal government’s form 5500, but the most interesting may be BizQualify.
Mining Data From The UK Payment Practices and Performance Regulation
UK regulators are forcing big companies to report their payment practices. The data shows how woeful e-invoice and supply chain finance penetration still is. It also shows which football clubs pay the fastest!
What’s in a name? Apparently the Order-to-Cash Process
Procure-to-pay seems to get all of the press and attention. But order-to-cash gets all the searches on Google. This bodes well for the integrated receivables market (invoice-to-cash).
My Top Five Posts of 2017
Here are my top five posts of 2017. (Based on reader popularity.) Better late than never.
Oracle Gobbles Up Another Construction Software Company: Aconex
Oracle continued its buying spree in construction software by announcing its acquisition of Aconex. Oracle adds Aconex to Primavera, Skire and Textura.
