by Robert Solomon | May 19, 2020 | B2B Software, Retail, Supply Chain Automation
Gartner recently issued the second iteration of its Magic Quadrant for Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Business Networks (MESCBNs). (Catchy acronym, huh?) While, there’s no perfect definition of a Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Business Network, Gartner’s...
by Robert Solomon | Apr 29, 2014 | B2B Software, Consolidating Competition, E-invoicing, Electronic Payments, Oil and Gas, Vertical Cloud
The billing and payments associated with upstream oil and gas field services have been an area I dabbled in during my Ariba days and have kept an eye on since. It’s a gigantic area with many attractive aspects: huge dollars are at stake complex services...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 3, 2014 | Airlines, Automobile, B2B Software, CPG/Retail, Foodservice
(This is the fourth in my series of posts on the nine value propositions offered by B2B platforms/multi-sided markets.) Value Proposition #4: Industry Catalogs There are plenty of catalog-based industries–office products and generic MRO are just two...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 16, 2014 | Automobile, B2B Software, Consolidating Competition, Education, Foodservice, Public Sector
In my last post, I promised a deeper dive into four of my favorite Industry Dominators–companies that have chosen to expand across an entire business process (usually source to settle) within one industry, or portion of an industry. Even though they are in...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 14, 2014 | Automobile, B2B Software, Consolidating Competition, Ecosystem, Education, Vertical Cloud
My last post covered one of at least two ways Industry Cloud providers can grow large enough to attract the attention of PE firms and the public markets: Serial Verticalization. As the name implies, this means perfecting one portion of the...
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