by Robert Solomon | Jan 8, 2015 | Art, Matchmaking
An auctioneer, of course, brings together buyers and sellers interested in transacting a good or service and lets buyers compete to buy the good (forward auction) or sellers compete to sell the good (reverse auction). The auctioneer makes money by getting a fee from...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 31, 2014 | B2B Software, Financial services, Matchmaking, Real Estate, Supplier Credentialling
A couple of weeks ago, one of my top ten picks for a website all enterprise software folks should follow, PE Hub Wire, introduced me to another relatively new company that sounds fascinating, Exactbid. This part of the blurb caught my attention (my emphasis added):...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 23, 2014 | Collaborative Project Management, Enterprise Software, Matchmaking, Supplier Credentialling, Supply Chain Finance
One of the nine value propositions of B2B platforms I have written about least is #8: Collaborative Project Management. I have always been troubled by three aspects of these type of platforms that are designed to facilitate inter-company interaction on a complex...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 18, 2014 | B2B Software, CPG/Retail, E-invoicing, Electronic Payments, Logistics
Not many people think about the topic of interoperability between information systems/ networks–how it comes about and what influences its form. How do I know? Spell-check does not recognize interoperability as a word. I bought a good book on the topic...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 16, 2014 | B2B Software, Financial services, Matchmaking
Being from Chicago, and having visited the NYSE and NASDAQ, I knew that commodities markets, currency markets, and equities markets had made a fairly rapid transition to electronic trading over the past 15 plus years. On the other hand, I had never really thought...
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