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, rapid-fire 7 minute demos) and the end of the demonstrations there was a word that [...]

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.  I am, by no means, discounting the importance of a proper understanding of how multi-sided [...]

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 [...]