December 15th, 2008 by Alex Coté
We are happy to announce the launch of a new portion of our website dedicated to providing timely and insightful industry metrics & statistics for commercial credit and collections professionals. This website will be updated regularly with a variety of trends, benchmarking information and overall A/R performance metrics, such as states with the highest rate [...]
November 12th, 2008 by Alex Coté
A couple of weeks ago I discussed our annual customer conference and how companies are increasingly addressing the various challenges brought forward by our current global economic crises. Below is a quick recap: Credit policies have more complexity and frequency of changes The range of data sources and products continues to expand “Do more with [...]
October 27th, 2008 by Alex Coté
Last week, many members of the Cortera team headed to Miami. No, we were not migrating south for the winter (tempting as it may be when the mercury is once again falling below 40 in New England). Even better, we hosted our annual Cortera Global Customer Conference. The event is an opportunity for our clients [...]
August 5th, 2008 by Alex Coté
Let’s play a little game called “Who Would Win in a Match-Up.” If your choices were online video sites YouTube or Veoh, I’m confident that an overwhelming number of you would choose YouTube for the win. Let’s try BMW versus Mercedes-Benz. Hmm, that one’s not quite as clear cut, is it? Now, how about the [...]
July 11th, 2008 by Alex Coté
In the context of business information, we’ve talked lately about how information wants to be free, yet structured, but what about doing that for all content? Google immediately comes to mind. Google created the ultimate database based on the simplest of missions: “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful“. One of [...]
June 23rd, 2008 by Cortera
In my last post I wrote about some hypotheses around why more credit & collections professionals don’t do more batch portfolio scoring. Here are some thoughts that address each of the barriers in order. Common Perception New Reality Tradition – “I don’t trust credit scores. A credit professional should conduct a more thorough review of [...]
June 17th, 2008 by Cortera
This month when we introduced our new BOOST tool we got some interesting reactions. This post isn’t a commercial for BOOST, but some background is relevant: BOOST is a self-service batch processing tool that enables the credit & collections professional to upload their portfolio of customers or potential customers, add credit scores to each record [...]
June 9th, 2008 by Alex Coté
Building on the theme that information wants to be free, both in the in monetary sense and in terms of accessibility, the time for non-IT information consumers has never been better.
June 3rd, 2008 by Cortera
“Information wants to be free” – these were the very first words I wrote on my first whiteboard, two decades ago, following my first substantial promotion in my technology career, which came with a nice, if oddly shaped, office and as plush a set of furniture as I was able to after-hours requisition. I certainly [...]
May 27th, 2008 by Alex Coté
It has been a busy few weeks as we wind down our annual spring user groups that started off in London back in February and finished in Louisville yesterday. Every year I come out of these meetings more inspired and encouraged than the previous year. Over the last several years I’ve had the privilege to [...]
