Whilst writing my series on IP Commerce Platform updates last week, I spoke about the concept of governance as it relates to Federated Identity and Commerce Business Rules.  It would appear that the discussion of governance was rather prescient, albeit unintentionally*, given other discussions late last week. There was a series of inter-related commentary related [...]

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 [...]

One of the benefits of working with a platform company is that you have the ability to see trends occurring in an ecosystem… For the last year or so, many of the discussions I have had with technologists (payments and otherwise) focus on the concept of what I call a “highly-integrated user experience.” These are [...]

One of the things I particularly enjoy about the position of Platform Evangelist is the requirement to keep abreast of industry trends and conversations. One of the simplest, and most compelling, ways* is via monitoring multiple blogs. At present, I monitor 155 feeds daily** and attempt to draw conclusions from the wealth of content they [...]

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