Several companies have spun some gold from the data buried in the federal government's form 5500, but the most interesting may be BizQualify. https://goo.gl/eRbc9d

UK regulators are forcing big companies to report their payment practices. The data show how woeful e-invoice and supply chain finance penetration still is. It also shows which football clubs pay the fastest! https://goo.gl/ZEfwBt

Procure-to-pay seems to get all of the press and attention. But order-to-cash gets all the searches on Google. This bodes well for the integrated receivables market (invoice-to-cash). https://goo.gl/gQH88D

Oracle continued its buying spree in construction software by announcing its acquisition of Aconex. Oracle adds Aconex to Primavera, Skire and Textura. https://goo.gl/7yVKSV

In the early days of B2B e-commerce, we were automating relatively straightforward transactions. Now we are getting to the tough stuff. https://goo.gl/8Abi3H

Verisk Analytics announced it will acquire PowerAdvocate. You've never heard of them because they are vertical big data plays. But they are worth studying! https://goo.gl/Knqkk8

The Fortune Future 50 may say more about the present than the future, either way the list is chock full of enterprise software companies. https://goo.gl/2NvNjU