by Robert Solomon | Nov 2, 2016 | B2B Software, Consolidating Competition, Industry Concentration
I’m pretty sure you agree, there are too many SaaS: Mobile payment options (Samsung Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal are all on my phone) Online lenders (B2B or B2C) Home meal delivery services Services marketplaces Marketing and sales applications Procure to pay...
by Robert Solomon | Oct 18, 2016 | B2B Software
My most popular post ever was my ground-breaking work on airline boarding procedures: the indispensable Airline Boarding Equivalency Chart. (If the subject of business travel is ever examined by the Nobel Prize folks, this work may finally receive it’s just...
by Robert Solomon | Oct 7, 2016 | B2B Software, Consolidating Competition, Financial services, Indirect Spend, Industry Concentration
For those of you interested in software platforms, marketplaces, networks, ecosystems– whatever you want to call them–it was a big week for news of giant platforms doing battle in a variety of venues. Smart Home Platforms Photo courtesy of Cnet. Google...
by Robert Solomon | Sep 30, 2016 | Indirect Spend, Industry Cloud, Procure to Pay
New Year’s Day should be in the fall, not January. After all, fall is when: we have a change of season, the new school year starts, Muslims and Jews are already celebrating the New Year, the harvest comes in, etc. Apparently, fall is also the new year for...
by Robert Solomon | Sep 27, 2016 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Pricing, Supply Chain Finance
Early (and Fuzzy) Saas Metrics From B2B Networks Until a B2B Network catches on, the metrics can be gloomy. (The first few years of the Ariba Network were pretty dismal, for instance.) The result is that for the first few years of a B2B network’s life you tend...
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