By R "Ray" Wang on May 25, 2020
Contactless, Direct To Consumer, Buy Online Pickup Anywhere, Automation, and Subscription Ready Drive Post Pandemic Response Matrix Commerce analyzes the disruptive pressures influencing the commerce paradigm. Commerce faces rapidly changing business models and new payment options that are often misunderstood and poorly integrated. Matrix commerce (TM) means the fusing of demand signals and supply chains […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 18, 2020
Understand The Key Priorities In A Post Pandemic Response Over the past seven weeks, Constellation Research, Inc. has fielded hundreds of calls from CXO’s about what to consider in the business and technology response to the coronavirus and Covid-19 fall out. The conversations with clients and the analysis from the research team have resulted in […]
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By Michael Fauscette on December 29, 2014
2014 will go down as the year of the major corporate hack. It happened in retail, in banking, in entertainment, in government and probably in many other places that never went public. Personally I have had new debit cards issued three times this past year, all because of a retail hack. Everytime it happens I […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apple Pay, commerce, Customer, CX, digital wallet, experience, google, MCX, online, pay, PayPal, store, Wallet
By R "Ray" Wang on July 21, 2014
Netsuite Sees Venda As Key To EMEA Expansion On July 17th, 2014, San Mateo, CA based NetSuite announced the acquisition of London based Venda for an undisclosed sum. Since General Manager Andrew Lloyd’s arrival in January 2011, NetSuite has made several acquisitions to bolster its standing in the world of Matrix Commerce with OrderMotion in […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, Apps Strategy, B2B, B2B E-commerce, B2C, B2C E-commerce, CDO, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CMO, commerce, Constellation Research, Digital Business, digital commerce, DigitalBiz, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, Matrix Commerce, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, netsuite, News Analysis, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy
By R "Ray" Wang on January 12, 2014
Retails Big Show Transformed For 2014 Over 29,000 people are expected to gather at the National Retail Federation’s big show (NRF) this Sunday, January 11th, 2014, in New York City. #NRF14 brings the intersection of new retail business models, products, store concepts, technology, society, and culture together! A few big trends emerge based on conversations […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on November 25, 2013
Commerce Server Finds Its Logical Home On Wednesday November 20th, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark based Sitecore acquired Ottawa, Canada based commerceserver.net for an undisclosed price. Originally known as the Microsoft Siteserver and Commerce Server 2000, the product was orphaned by Microsoft, then Ascentium, the key development partner were given the rights to further develop and market […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on September 6, 2013
Zuora Rides The Wave In The Subscription Economy On September 5th, 2013, Foster City, CA based Zuora, announced $50 million in Series E capital. The announcement has significant ramifications not only for Zuora’s self proclaimed subscription economy category, but also the broader business theme of matrix commerce because Zuora: Expanded the investor pool. Zuora successfully […]
Posted in Business | Tagged Apps Strategy, B2B, B2B E-commerce, B2C, B2C E-commerce, Benchmark Capital, billing, Business Models, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Service Officer, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CMO, collaborative consumption, commerce, Constellation Research, Dave Duffield, Digital Business, disruptive, disruptive business models, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, E-Commerce, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise strategy, finance, funding, Funding announcement, Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Marc Benioff, Matrix Commerce, News Analysis, Next World Capital, Northgate Capital, R "Ray" Wang;, Redpoint Ventures, rwang0, SaaS, Sharing Economy, Shasta Ventures, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Tenaya Capital, Tien Zuo, Vulcan Capital, workday, Zuora
By Michael Fauscette on January 2, 2013
One of the byproducts of the Internet is a phenomenon that is impacting all sorts of things, the trend of breaking things into smaller and smaller pieces, dramatically changing the subsequent consumption models. The ability to connect everything using the Internet opened up new business / economic models, new ways of working, new ways to […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged apps, commerce, Consumption, internet, investing, process, SaaS, socbiz, Stock trader, work, zipcar |
By Michael Fauscette on May 20, 2012
I spent the past week in San Francisco attending Netsuite’s annual user conference, SuiteWorld. As with most software conferences there was the usual barrage of announcements including new features, new partners and refined strategies. Of course SAP also held its…
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Box, CaaS, Cloud, commerce, erp, netsuite, SaaS, SuiteWorld, yammer |
By Michael Fauscette on October 25, 2011
Today, for the third year in a row, IDC published the Innovative Software Companies Under $100M to Watch, in an effort to recognize innovation in the software around specific hot trends. The selection for the Application Software vendors was conducted…
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged commerce, Company, innovative, socbiz, Social, socialytics, technology, Technology / Software |
