Integration Improvements
According to Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., users can expect to see additional integration features from digital exchanges in the next two years. They include the following:
Stories by Julia King
B-to-B Exchanges Tighten Buyer/Seller Data Links
In their big rush to be first to market, digital exchanges have paid little attention to helping their users integrate online transactions with legacy computing systems.
Bitch Sites Tutorial
What are they? Web sites or message boards where workers post so-called real-life stories - usually complaints - about their companies, managers, career choices, working conditions and more.
Online Buyers Tout Auction Gains
Erase the image of backroom purchasing agents thumbing through fat paper catalogs or haggling over prices with suppliers by phone.
Tech-for-Equity Deals Speed B-to-B Rollouts
New business-to-business marketplaces are springing up online in weeks rather than months, thanks to a growing venture funding trend under which investors provide technology and business expertise in exchange for a piece of the action.
Hackers Post False Merger News on Company Web Site
Aastrom Biosciences is in damage-control mode this morning after hackers broke into the company's Web site and posted a false press release announcing that the company was merging with biotechnology competitor Geron.
Parts Maker Pins Profits Dip on IT
Thomas & Betts Corp., a $2.5 billion electrical parts manufacturer, is blaming problems with a new Internet-based order management system for a 50% nosedive in fourth-quarter profits - plus another $42 million in losses caused by order and shipping disruptions.
Consultants Teach IT To Stay on Track
Imagine an information technology consulting firm that gives away its research and analysis for free online.
Online Order System Blamed for Drop in Net Income
Thomas & Betts Corp., an electronics components manufacturer in Memphis, blamed problems with a new Internet-based ordering system for $20 million in shipment delays and a nearly 50 percent drop in 1999 income.
CIOs Scoff at Early Report of IT's Demise
Forrester Research Inc. gives IT organizations three years before they're killed off by emerging e-commerce models that put technology management directly into the hands of business managers and outside service providers.
Free Software Brings Small Suppliers Online
VerticalNet Inc. and The EC Co. are clearing the way for thousands of small-fry suppliers to play with the big boys in the booming business-to-business e-commerce arena.
Report: Business-to-business e-commerce to climb sharply in next two years
The $US5 billion business-to-business e-commerce market will double in each of the next two years, according to new research from The Delphi Group in Boston.
Not Your Father's IT
As CIO and senior vice president of engineering and development at Reynolds & Reynolds, Yen-Ping Shan's calendar listed a regular weekly meeting with the Ohio-based company's CEO.
Researchers to launch global Net measurements
AC Nielsen and NetRatings, an internet audience researcher, said yesterday they'll launch a new global service for tracking audiences, advertising and user activity on the internet.
Internet holiday sales failures carry hefty price tag
Online holiday sales are due to hit $US6 billion this year, with some 10 million first-time cybershoppers clicking Web-based "buy" buttons, according to new research from New York-based Jupiter Communications.