by Robert Solomon | Mar 24, 2016 | B2B Software, Indirect Spend, Procure to Pay
One of the best scholars on the subject of platforms is Marshall Van Alstyne of MIT. Van Alstyne coined a phrase I love: “platforms always beat products”. For example, the iphone or ipod with their app stores and itunes respectively beat pure products that tried to...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 23, 2016 | B2B Software, Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Indirect Spend, Procure to Pay
Until now, there have been two basic business models in catalog-based e-procurement: The Buyer Pay Model: Followed by Coupa, Sciquest, Tradeshift, Basware, and others. This model charges the buyer a fee and is free to the supplier. The Buyer and Supplier Pay Model:...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 23, 2016 | B2B Software, Procure to Pay, Supply Chain Finance
Basware tends to be overlooked in US discussions of Procure to Pay software and e-invoice networks. This results from Basware’s Finnish heritage and concentration on Scandinavia. That may be changing. Basware Strategic Plan One thing I have always admired...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 26, 2016 | B2B Software, Procure to Pay, Supply Chain Automation
A few days ago, I posted about Ariba and Tradeshift’s unlikely “tete a tete” at Tradeshift’s event in Davos. An alert reader kindly shared with me the approximately 1o minute video of the Skype conversation between Christian Lanng CEO of...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 21, 2016 | B2B Software, Procure to Pay |
Okay, I’m not in Davos. Never have been, likely never will be. But over on Spend Matters, is a “sponsored article” (i.e., native advertising) from Tradeshift entitled “Tradeshift and the Disruption of Big Business, Live from Davos”....
by Robert Solomon | Jan 19, 2016 | B2B Software, Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Indirect Spend, Procure to Pay |
Until now, there have been two basic business models in catalog-based e-procurement: The Buyer Pay Model: Followed by Coupa, Sciquest, Tradeshift, Basware, and others. This model charges the buyer a fee and is free to the supplier. The Buyer and Supplier Pay Model:...
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