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 [...]

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 [...]

There is always something, personally, compelling when 2 discrete blog entries touch on a similar topic…This happened, again, today. The first post is entitled Integration is Only the Beginning: Messages from the Edge and was penned by a colleague, Peter Osberg, at PaymentsAPI.com. The second is entitled Innovating Around Restrictions – PlayOn Story by Krishnan [...]

I had initially intended a different post for today…but, after several offline conversations based on the last two days discussing Commerce Modules, I have been convinced to change course. In the previous posts, I talked about the ability for a Commerce Module to enable a simple, quick, secure addition of supplemental software to a payment [...]

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 [...]