Facilities Maintenance Software Meet Private Equity
Private equity firms are showing a lot of love to facilities maintenance software and services vendors.
Lessons from 50+ years of SABRE
Sabre, one of the enterprise software industry’s pioneer platforms provides many lessons for today’s enterprise software platform entrepreneurs.
Sabre Rattling
As one of the original enterprise software platforms, the Sabre IPO offers a fascinating lesson in how such platforms are built and endure.
A new public Services Marketplace: Care.com
Care.com has filed to go public. It fills a niche in the services matchmaking market. But the economics need some proving.
Liquidity Services (LQDT): Where is the growth?
Liquidity services is a public online marketplace for surplus consumer and governmental goods. The market is large, but growth has been hard to sustain.
Case Studies in Industry Dominance
DealerTrack, Medidata, itradenetwork, and Blackboard have established depth in functionality and industry dominance in their respective verticals.
Industry Cloud Dominance
Some industry cloud providers spread across industries, some choose stay put in one industry and expand services–that’s industry dominance.
More on Tungsten/OB10
The combination of Tungsten and OB10 provides a public company window into the enormous e-invoicing and supply chain finance market.
Serial Verticalization
Some industry cloud platforms expand by applying the business processes they automate across industries. This is what I call Serial Verticalization.
