Over the course of the last 5 days, we have discussed several elements that were announced in a Press Release on June 7.  These discussions have included: Commerce APIs Federated Identity Commerce Business Rules All of these bits of technology enable important, required components to building a holistic payments workflow that includes Value-Added services alongside [...]

Federated Identity, as discussed yesterday, is about governance and security in commerce workflows but more is required to sufficiently drive the workflows that software companies are building, for their customers. Federated Identity is one element in the equation of governance.  The other key component, which is unique to IP Commerce APIs and Managed Commerce Services [...]

In yesterday’s post, I concluded by mentioning the concept of “governance.”  Governance, as defined by Wikipedia, is: “Governance relates to decisions that define expectations, grant power, or verify performance.” In all software workflows, there is an element of governance.  In the payments industry, this governance is required to ensure a truly holistic software solution is [...]

For those of you not familiar with the term “API”, let’s discuss its meaning. An “Application Programming Interface” is, simply, the interface that allows one piece of software to communicate with another.  In most cases, this interaction between differing pieces software occurs because a developer invests the time and effort to code their software to [...]

As you may already be aware…IP Commerce announced, via a press release, a substantial update to our Managed Commerce Services Platform. The content of this release is available on the IP Commerce site (as linked above) or on PYMNTS.com. The detail of the updates is presented in the release, but there are a few elements [...]