by Robert Solomon | Jun 24, 2016 | B2B Software, Oracle, Procure to Pay
The 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites is out and that is important to some of you, so I thought I would share part of it. (I received a copy of the report which says “licensed for distribution” from a vendor website. The document...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 16, 2016 | B2B Software, Matchmaking, Travel, Vertical Cloud
It’s fun to see two different business models go head to head in the same market. It’s also fun to watch a gigantic marketplace change its business model. Both of these phenomena are happening in the C2C lodging space. Airbnb and HomeAway have different...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 11, 2016 | B2B Software, Travel
Occasionally we all need a break from thinking about enterprise software, right? So I’ve decided to begin a periodic series of (hopefully) amusing posts about my travel experiences. Why business travel? It is something I know well (1.5 million miles on United for...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 7, 2016 | Automobile, Industry Cloud, Industry Concentration, Supply Chain Automation, Vertical Cloud
Those of you over the age of 40 remember the crazy B2B consortia days of the late 1990s. (For those you under 40, just imagine the sub-prime mortgage lunacy transferred to software!) During that time, the Big Three American auto companies formed two auto consortia:...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 6, 2016 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Electronic Payments, Healthcare, Insurance
A couple of weeks ago, Cotiviti Holdings went public breaking a long enterprise software and services IPO drought. Never heard of Cotiviti? Me neither, until the IPO. But once I looked into Cotiviti I realized the company is involved in businesses many of you...
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