As mentioned in my last post, I suspected that last week would prove to be extremely interesting. I was, in fact, not disappointed. The Paypal X Innovate event was much what you would expect. I will comment on some of my learnings and perceptions, in context, over the next several weeks…but I must commend PayPal [...]

As I mentioned yesterday when discussing Transaction Management, one of the key components of Commerce Modules (as offered through the IP Commerce Platform) is the ability to quickly and simply drive a consistent customer experience. Hence the statement of a “snap-in business solution”… It is worth noting, when considering the technical side of supplementing a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Event attendance is an intriguing experience.  If you have not heard the term “backchannel”, let me explain…rather, let me link to something on the subject.  Read that, or at least the intro, and return…I don’t mind waiting. Back already? To me the backchannel is not only enabled by technology, but occurs around coffee tables and [...]