Messages from the Edge

The Messages from the Edge series is dedicated to giving voice to the needs of the Software Company and Developer Communities.

Commerce Logic In The Cloud: Messages From The Edge

March 23, 2011

You can tell that a descriptive term, used in technical architectural implementation and design, has reached mainstream when it is featured in television commercials. “The Cloud” In researching the term, you will find references to several primary terms:

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An API or a Platform?: Messages from the Edge

February 25, 2011

If you review the items in this series, you will notice a key theme…all of the posts begin with an assumption. This assumption is one that is important to truly understand when engaging with the software development community. The assumption of connectivity. When a software company begins the process of identifying a solution to address [...]

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Messages from the Edge: A Series In Review

December 22, 2010

2010 has been an exciting and important year for the payments industry.  The emergence of new technology (coupled with the demand for customized services for this new technology) has kept Software Company & Developer communities vigilant in finding the resources they need to service their customers.  IP Commerce, the leading open platform for the payments [...]

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Enabling Real-Time Collaboration Through Federated Identity: Messages From The Edge

December 16, 2010

It is quite possible that the single most important component to driving commerce innovation is a technology of which you have never heard… Federated Identity Or, if you have heard of it, the likely response is one of confusion and association with a several million-dollar professional services project.  For those in the payments industry, the [...]

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Workflow Templates – an Innovation Accelerant for Payments: Messages From the Edge

November 17, 2010

In the most recent post in this series, I am not defined by your SIC code, Segments, there was an assertion made that continues to prove itself true: Software Companies are willing to make an investment (both financially and in time/effort) to integrate with development tools to meet their customer’s needs.  However, they will only [...]

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Gaining More Control with Open Payment Platform Solutions

October 18, 2010

Peter Osberg from IP Commerce talks with Gary Catt, President and CEO of Ventek International, on how open payment platform solutions can remove the traditional impediments of middle-ware including; lack of service level, lack of control over PCI compliance and lack of control over processing costs, and open the door to more scalable product offerings [...]

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I am not defined by your SIC Code, Segments: Messages From the Edge

September 30, 2010

In the payments industry the practice of identifying merchants by the SIC code (standard industry classification) for the purposes of pricing and underwriting has been hugely valuable. However, it is important to note that Software Companies do not, and will not, classify themselves by an industry code. They, in contrast, are targeting a set of [...]

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The Value of Value-Added Services: Messages from the Edge

September 7, 2010

A recurring theme we see among Software Companies in the market today is that the selection of a payment API is initially driven by the desire to meet immediate business objectives. Furthermore, these objectives often center on the consumption of one core payment service (e.g. credit card processing, ACH, gift card) for one specific industry [...]

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Open APIs and the Intricacies of Payments Integration

August 20, 2010

Peter Osberg from payment platform provider IP Commerce talks with Dean Burke, director of marketing and new business development for Washington-based Carpe Charge about open APIs and the intricacies of payments Integration.

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