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B2B e-commerce to grow 20% in Q3 2005

Merrill Lynch expects business operations on the Web to tally a 20% increase in e-commerce and 14% rise in online travel bookings growth from Q2 2005. The total US commerce and travel spending is expected to be up 6-8% and 4-5% respectively.

Tags: B2B e-commerce, B2B, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.

Blog posts 2005-07-17

B2B E-Commerce Stages of Growth: The Strategic Imperatives

Stages-of-growth has been the most popular approach used for strategy development and implementation. The major stages of growth models such as Gibson and Nolan have been widely discussed and are particularly useful in understanding the implementation of IS in organisations. These models might be more representative of e-commerce implementation, however,...

Tags: B2B E-commerce, E-business, Stages-of-growth, B2B, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet

White papers 2003-12-08

The Potential of Electronic Commerce

Early participants had the money and expertise to develop robust business to business electronic commerce solutions. The resulting industry designed standards were often set too high for many smaller businesses.The large companies are successful because of the higher levels of automation in their supply chains and will be looking either...

Tags: B2B E-commerce, Montgomery Research Inc., Electronic Commerce, B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet

White papers 1999-04-15

A Framework for Analyzing B2B e-Commerce

Most U.S. companies today are attempting to figure out how they should approach business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce despite the stock market gyrations – positive and negative – of B2B companies. By separating the physical and information flows connected with each transaction, the Internet potentially will radically change the ways in...

Tags: B2B E-commerce, B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet

White papers

Additional Resources

Hordes of owners complain of problems with HP Elite Pavilion PCs using Core i7

What this should teach you....is to look at the support forums before buying!RE: Hordes of owners complain of problems with HP Elite Pavilion PCs using Core i7Thank you for publishing this. I'm on this PC right now trying to decide whether I should get a replacement or return it...

Tags: Desktops, Mice, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC

Discussion threads 2009-09-27

HTC Touch Pro2 (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:HTC Touch Pro2 Verizon WirelessThe HTC Touch Pro2 is making the rounds to the various carriers; first showing up at T-Mobile, then to Sprint, and now Verizon Wireless. Verizon's version of the Windows Mobile smartphone isn't all that different from the other models, delivering a powerful business device capable...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Verizon HTC Touch Pro2, Verizon Wireless, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch, HTC Touch Pro2, Verizon Communications Inc., smart phone

Product reviews 2009-09-22

RSS: A good idea at the time but there are better ways now

I find it hard to believe that RRSusage was ever as high as 9%.I have a high-tech B2B client who had 1 person reading their RSS feed. But, within a week, had 15+ followers on Twitter.Twitter is easier for me to push out info.Twitter is easier for me to follow...

Tags: RSS, Twitter Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Sony's Reader: The road ahead

Sony launched two new e-readers, including one that hits the $199 price point and could bring e-books to the masses. Yet Sony is facing stiff competition from Amazon's Kindle, Plastic Logic (in 2010) and a rapidly expanding field of competitors. Also see: Sony launches two new readers...

Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Sony Reader, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Wrangling banks' security architecture to allow transactions anywhere

If only bank websites were as simple and easy to use as an iPhone app. Believe it or not, that wish isn't far from fruition. Earlier this year, banking provider Waterfield Technologies and application infrastructure guru WorkLight teamed up to offer secure, widget-based banking...

Tags: Bank, Security, UI, Financial Services, Banking, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-10

E-reader devices: The fun is just starting

The interest in e-readers, or e-books as they are called now, has reached a fever pitch. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos fields nothing but Kindle questions at the company's  shareholder meeting. Prime View picks up E Ink, the company that supplies the screen to Amazon's Kindle, for $215 million. And companies...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Sarah Rotman Epps, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Marketo upgrades, uses salesforce cloud to push smarter sales

Think about how you get to know new people - new neighbors, perhaps. At the first meeting, you exchange introductions, maybe talk about their former place of residence or even where they work. Over the next few meetings, you learn more and more about your neighbors - their hobbies, their...

Tags: Sales Force, Marketo, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-03

RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 (T-Mobile)

T-Mobile teased us at CES 2009 by introducing the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 but denying us any details on availability date and pricing. Fortunately, we didn't have to wait too long as the carrier has released the final details and given us our own review unit. In short, the BlackBerry...

Tags: Handhelds, T-Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Curve, Curve 8900, BlackBerry Curve 8900, RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900, Research In Motion Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-01-28

SupportPortal 3.0 (Windows)

AJAX/PHP web based help desk and customer support solution with Ticket and E-mail management, Knowledge Management, Live support chat, Product Catalog, News management and Support Forum and in one low-cost collaborative package intended to use in B2B or B2C. SupportPortal allows multi-channel interaction for multiple customers, organizations and end-users, whether...

Tags: Customer, Microsoft Windows, SupportPortal, Help Desk, Call Centers, AJAX, B2C, Knowledge Management, Service Level Management, Strategy, It Operations, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, E-business/E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Software, It service Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-01-19

Samsung Saga (Verizon Wireless)

As Verizon Wireless is wont to do, the carrier is unleashing all its goodies right before the holiday season, from the RIM BlackBerry Storm to the HTC Touch Pro to the subject of this review, the Samsung Saga. Like the Samsung Ace for Sprint, the Saga offers world-roaming capabilities but...

Tags: Mice, Smart phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, Verizon Wireless, trackpad, Samsung Saga, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Epix

Product reviews 2008-11-24

The greening of meetings: Brought to you by emerging technology

I have become an extreme minimalist when I travel to trade shows and conferences. The last thing I want to carry on my way back is a suitcase full of literature that I may or may not be really interested in reading. So, I must confess, I have dumped many...

Tags: Kiosk, Conference, Kinetic Business Applications, B2B, Portals, Document Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-31

Glongoo Genie 1.09 (Windows)

Glongoo Genie, The Coming Together: Is a Software System to Generate Virtual Spam free, Keyword Specific, High OPT-IN e-mail Address Lists for Highly Cost-Effective, Powerful Marketing & Advertising Programs for both Personal Relationships and/or B2B Business Matchmaking. Virtual spam free e-mail is one of the most cost effect ways to...

Tags: U.S. General Services Administration, B2B, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-06-26

Is AMD GAME! anything more than another marketing stunt?

Is AMD GAME! anything more than another marketing stunt?AMD Game? Marketing stunt indeedAMD is in trouble Adrian, you've got to expect them to try all they can. Attacking the casual consumer is probably their best option, since the vast majority of hard core gamers have deserted them for Intel and/or...

Tags: Games, Processors, AMD GAME, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., game, marketing, App£e AIR, NVidia Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Sun waits out Microsoft

Sun waits out MicrosoftBinary Compatibility? To even suggest it is folly"I pushed the envelope, just for giggles, calling for binary compatibility between Java and .NET/DCOM/COM"This isn't useful and the mere suggestion brings back memories of the Object Request Broker ORB wars of years ago (CORBA R.I.P) and it doesn't solve...

Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, RPC, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., COM, DCOM, COM Server

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

$450 just bought me a sweet laptop

$450 just bought me a sweet laptopI bought the same Compaq but.....I bought the same PC as well but yesterday I had to send it back to HP because it would not power up. After calling HP's tech support and getting through in no more than 10 minutes (at...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, sweet laptop, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2007-09-27

'Volta': Microsoft's dev platform in the Cloud?

'Volta': Microsoft's dev platform in the Cloud?if it's not GPLEed it's deadOnly if the community will have the code, the coloud can get any traction.The Real IssueWhen I see phrases like 'dev platform in the cloud', 'democratizing the cloud', 'incubation project', 'compiling any MSIL assembly into cross-browser-compatible JavaScript', I come...

Tags: Application servers, .NET, Middleware, Web services, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft .NET, dev platform, BizTalk Services, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-23