by Robert Solomon | Nov 23, 2020 | CPG/Retail, Electronic Payments, Financial services, Marketplaces
Every day there is a new IPO for an interesting software company with a marketplace angle. Airbnb’s S-1 is the obvious example. But Affirm, which filed to go public last week has marketplace aspirations as well. There are plenty of great articles on the...
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 23, 2016 | B2B Software, CPG/Retail, E-invoicing, Healthcare, Industry Big Data, Pricing
Three separate events last week reminded me that every spend category has its “dirty little secrets”. Suppliers can exploit these “dirty little secrets” to squeeze a little more from buyers than buyers bargained for. Not all of these secrets...
by Robert Solomon | Aug 17, 2015 | CPG/Retail, Matchmaking
The week before last, I blogged about the “take rates” associated with various B2B Commerce Platforms. The two key points were that take rates: depend on the services that the marketplaces offer marketplaces that connect buyers and suppliers who were...
by Robert Solomon | May 4, 2015 | B2B Software, CPG/Retail, Industry Big Data
The news last week that MasterCard plans to acquire Applied Predictive Technologies deserves a bit more attention. Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) is a provider of software and services for designing and evaluating a variety of tests: marketing, merchandising,...
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...
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