Category archives: Platform
“I do not think that means what you think it means”: Finovate 2010, day 1
While taking copious, perhaps excessive, notes on each presenter at the Finovate Fall 2010 conference today I noticed a trend. A trend that, frankly, I found somewhat disturbing. Between the time I started counting (mid-point of the first of twenty-eight,… continue reading »
Multi-Channel PIN Debit: an IP Commerce and Adaptive Payments partnership
I tend to enjoy pontification, both in person and in written form, about platform theory and the business models associated with multi-sided technology implementations. Ultimately, however, all the pontification in the world is of little value when building a business.… continue reading »
Governance & Commercialization: Payment APIs and Platforms
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… continue reading »
Commerce Service Bus: Powering Payments Innovation
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… continue reading »
Secure Invoicing in Microsoft Word
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… continue reading »