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- VCs put big sums into SaaS
- Several SaaS vendors have announced some big funding rounds the past couple of weeks, which suggests that SaaS is still able to command strong VC support where vendors can show good traction for their offerings. The three rounds that caught my eye were: Rearden Commerce, $100 million....
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Rearden Commerce, Analytics, Sales Compensation, Intacct, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Keep your travel profile a little greener with Rearden
- I am writing this blog in a state that was just smacked by the collapse of one of its local airlines Aloha, which took both employees and customers very much by surprise. Meanwhile, many of the people I was with at last week's Cisco Partner Summit in Honolulu didn't find...
- Tags: Rearden Commerce, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Readen Commerce mashes up Total Dining Experience
- Readen Commerce has developed a comprehensive Web-based platform for handing employee business services, such as airline tickets, car rentals, car services, event tickets and package shipping, within corporations. I wrote about Rearden Commerce when it first launched in 2005. The latest element of the Rearden Commerce service, which works with...
- Tags: Web Technology, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- rearden commerce books American Express travel arm
- Rearden Commerce books American Express travel armlets go AmExIf they can really get this Rearden Software to work in their system it will catch on and make things different in the world of searching for anything not just flights and hotel rooms.I want to see them succeed with this as...
- Tags: SEARCH, Channel management, Rearden Commerce, American Express Co.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-16
- The Web grows up
- Part of the reason people get dissatisfied with terms like Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 is that we all know the Web is an unfinished project and were somewhat impatient to see some more progress made on getting it built. So its good when an announcement comes along that suggests...
- Tags: Business applications, Companies, Marketplaces, Web 3.0
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- Amex sees gold in SaaS-SOA model
- For a compelling example of how Software as a Service and service oriented architecture is converging, look no further than Rearden Commerce. ZDNet blogging colleague Dan Farber just reported that American Express is taking a $22.5 million equity stake in the company and will be white-labeling Reardens employee service platform...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Amex, Rearden Commerce, SOA, Rearden
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- rearden commerce goes for scale with American Express
- After two years of dancing across the table, Rearden Commerce and American Express Business Travel partnered up to scale out employee business services beyond the big three, air, hotel and car rental. American Express Business Travel is white labeling Rearden Commerces employee services platform and making a $22.5 million minority...
- Tags: American Express Co., Rearden Commerce, McGraw
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- Using SaaS and Web 2.0 for business automation
- I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at solutions for automated business processes that are based on the online, low-barrier, and highly collaborative worlds of SaaS and Web 2.0. Primarily, this is part of my exploration of using Web 2.0 in the enterprise, sometimes called Enterprise...
- Tags: Rearden Commerce, business process, Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-05-13
- Rearden would rather buy Google
- AMR's Bruce Richardson has garnered attention with his speculation that "Google should buy Rearden Commerce." I'm not surprised to learn that Rearden's CEO and founder, Patrick Grady, "laughed" when Richardson called to ask his opinion. I met Grady last week, and his ambitions for Rearden are to rival Google in...
- Tags: Rearden Commerce
- Blog posts 2005-10-31
- Analyst thinks Google should buy rearden commerce
- In his latest "Alert Highlight," it might as well be called a blog, AMR’s Bruce Richardson muses over the "Google Economy," a subject not suffering from any lack of coverage these days. His final of five points stood out and deserves some attention:No. 5: Google should buy Rearden CommerceWhy...
- Tags: AMR&rsquo, s Bruce Richardson, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-10-28
- The great Web 2.0 application (s)mash-up
- There are two opposing views of the direction enterprise applications are moving in. One view says that enterprises want "one throat to choke, one stack to manage," and thus the trend is for ever greater consolidation on a dwindling number of giant vendors. The opposite view was presented at a...
- Tags: Rearden Commerce, Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2005-09-21
- SOA, EDI: and the beat goes on...
- SOA, EDI: and the beat goes on...Forget EDI - Look AheadIt seems a little disingenuous, to me, to set up old EDI service providers as the bad guys.EDI was of its time, and many positive lessons were learned from its use. Anyway, I don't see a huge rush away...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Strategy, Rearden Commerce, EDI, SOA
- Discussion threads 2005-03-07
- SOA, EDI: and the beat goes on...
- Will Rearden Commerce really make a splash? Who knows? Time will tell. But it's always refreshing when new entrants, especially brash upstarts and startups, come in and stir things up a bit. As my blogmate Britton points out, Patrick Grady and Rearden Commerce walk the walk when...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Enterprise software, SOA, EDI, Patrick Grady, Rearden Commerce, Web service, visionary, Web
- Blog posts 2005-03-04
- rearden commerce: SOA empire in the making?
- Who is Patrick Grady? That's a question that is likely to be answered many times over in the coming months as his"employee business services" company, Rearden Commerce, gathers market momentum. Grady told our own Dan Farber that it was the "extreme audacity" of the undertaking that kept him quiet about...
- Tags: Patrick Grady, Rearden Commerce
- Blog posts 2005-03-04
- rearden commerce transforms business services
- Patrick Grady, the founder and CEO of the newly minted Rearden Commerce, likes to tell his story--a tale of perseverance, technology innovation and business acumen in the risky enterprise software business. A venture capital investment of $42 million plays a key role in the story, as well as the company's...
- Tags: Patrick Grady
- Blog posts 2005-02-27
- Splunk Case Study: rearden commerce
- Rearden Commerce provides the world's largest marketplace for services of all kinds, including travel, entertainment, package shipping and meeting services. Rearden's service must be online for its customers 24/7/365 or it risks losing revenue and accounts. As a solution the company implemented Splunk Professional. It helps the company to be...
- Tags: Rearden Commerce, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- The power of you: Siemens recognizes green efforts of three U.S. communities
- I've been remiss in following up some admirable community sustainability awards that are being sponsored by Siemens in conjunction with the Business Civic Leadership Center and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. While these projects aren't strictly green technology initiatives, they ARE being pushed forward by advances in alternative energy and...
- Tags: Community, Green Technology, Siemens AG, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Combined HP-EDS can explore missing methodology around how to offload IT to the cloud(s)
- HP's now official pending EDS buy for just shy of $14 billion positions the combined companies to organize and manage the hosted/on-premises mix to maximum efficiency and lowest TCO. It's a great goal to shoot for because all they have to do is beat IBM. With this...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., End Goal, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Bold and a $150 million development fund
- There have been rumors of a new BlackBerry design, often labeled the BlackBerry 9000 series, and today RIM posted the official announcement of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone that will be coming this Summer to a carrier near you. RIM also announced a US$150 million mobile applications and services development fund...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Display, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
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