Sramana: Many years ago I wrote about the notion of the extended enterprise. What you are doing is facilitating the extended enterprise. I have a model for enterprise 3.0 which includes much of what you have described. Greg Johnsen: It is funny that you used that term. When we won Hewlett-Packard in 2000, even though
Sramana: How do you message around building a centralized platform that shares supply chain business objects among multiple parties? How do you communicate security and collaboration concurrently? Greg Johnsen: This past year we have had a shift in how we talk about the company during our second or third meeting. You can’t do this in
Sramana: How much add on revenue does a major enterprise customer provide when they bring along all of the additional suppliers? Greg Johnsen: When you win big customers, say five or six, and a single third party logistics provider such as DHL services for each one of them, the impact is that their commercial organization
Sramana: When you started GT Nexus, who were your first customers and what did they buy? Greg Johnson: We started the company in 1998 and we won the consortium deal in 2001. In 1999 we were focused on building the software platforms we needed and by 2000 we were talking to the big carriers and
Sramana: How did you make the transition from a generic on-demand business platform into a logistics market company? Greg Johnsen: We started to optimize our existing generic business platform and transform it into a domain platform for supply chain. That encompassed things like purchase orders, shipments, inventory, invoices and payments. We were off and running.
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Greg Johnsen is the executive vice president of marketing and co-founder of GT Nexus. GT Nexus is a great example of what I describe in my enterprise 3.0 definition (Enterprise 3.0 = (SaaS + EE) and Enterprise 3.0 = (SaaS + EE + SME+TWS). Mr. Johnsen
Omniture declared their second quarter earnings on July 23. Net loss was $6.5 million or $0.09 per share, compared with $4.1 in the second quarter of 2007. GAAP revenues for the same period were $71.6 million, compared with $63.2 million in the previous quarter and $33.5 million for the same period a year ago. This
I wrote this post on February 11, and have received a large stream of deals that are looking for financing. As I am working through these, it is becoming obvious to me that in most cases, the ventures need a couple of more key people in specific functions.