FINOS Corporate deck. The second element is what we refer as platform or collaborative economy. Since the dawn of web 2.0, cloud and software-as-a-service we witnessed a massive transformation of how technology is used to deliver value: platforms like Uber and Airbnb have shown the way in a whole new way of delivering technology. Those are not solutions, they are platforms, fundamentally opening new channels between demand and supply, rather than producing and delivering a specific product / solution like in traditional business models. In a platform play, value creation is continuous rather than one way, and involves creating a thriving ecosystem. Whether thats hotels, cars or partners integrating, building solutions or the very network your platform creates, it is clear that the value, the core IP, is NOT in the platform - in the software - per se. And openness, in your API, data representation and ideally source code, become critical to create that ecosystem that will deliver value.