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SPS Commerce Automates Multi-Party Supply Chains With Software as a Service EDI

SPS Commerce offers outsourced supply chain services including EDI, catalog, barcode labels, and online ordering that enable retailers and suppliers to eliminate manual order, shipping and invoicing processes, replacing them with automated and integrated operations. In order to keep pace with an exponential growth in customers and transaction volume while...

Tags: SPS Commerce, Supply Chain, Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., EDI, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Case studies 2007-06-01

SPS Commerce Simplifies Integration and Streamlines Systems Management

SPS Commerce is the leading Software-as-a-Service SaaS provider of Electronic Data Interchange EDI. More than 12,000 companies outsource their EDI to SPS Commerce. The company wanted to simplify systems integration and increase overall system flexibility, reliability, and throughput. The challenge was to accelerate resolution of IT performance issues and enhance...

Tags: SPS Commerce, Oracle Corp., Systems Management, Integration, EDI, Software As A Service (SaaS), Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management

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Apple, Mozilla gain ground on Microsoft for Web traffic

When it comes to surfing the Web, a growing number of people used Macs, instead of a Windows computer, as well as browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the month of November. According to a survey by NetApplications reported on Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog, the number...

Tags: Web, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., NetApplications, Web Browsers, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Does Cyber Monday matter this year?

The pressure's on for Cyber Monday, the online cousin of retail's Black Friday. Retailers and e-tailers had been forecasting doom and gloom for the holiday season but online sales on Black Friday actually were up 1 percent over last year, according to comscore. Wrap Thanksgiving Day shopping into the mix...

Tags: ComScore Networks Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-01

News to know: Macs on sale, YouTube goes wide, Twitter, Cisco

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: A rare occurrence: Macs on sale Jason D. O'Grady: Apple retail stores to match prices Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple prepares for Black Friday blow-out! ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, YouTube Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Cisco Systems Inc., Twitter, Telemarketing, AJAX, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Digital Media, Marketing, Marketing Research, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-26

The uncertainties of social media for traditional brands

Guest post: Drew Bartkiewicz is a vice president of Technology and New Media Markets for The Hartford, and author of the upcoming book, Unseen Liability. In today's 24/7 business world, companies and their customers are consuming, sharing and storing data at an unprecedented rate. This data has...

Tags: Web, Brand, Network, Social Media, Tiffany, Web 2.0, Intellectual Property, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-25

E-commerce growth in 2007-2008

Month YTY growth Jun-07 25% Jul-07 22% Aug-07 28% Sep-07 19% Oct-07 19% Nov-07 20% Dec-07 18% Jan-08 12% Feb-08 14% Mar-08 9% Apr-08 15% May-08...

Tags: Growth, E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Beggars, and no longer choosers

Detroit, its auto industry and its UAW find themselves facing a whole new era. A Congress that may NOT come across with dollars to keep the Detroit Dinosaurs (that's a management team not an NBA team) playing. And today a new powerful figure in charge of the House...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-20

CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!

Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least.  So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...

Tags: Social Media, Business, Tool, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-11-18

i-Cards: the next SSN?

When it comes to the new information cards - the digital wallet initiative backed by the likes of Google, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle - think of this as Phase 1, the information gathering phase This week, another partner in the effort - credit reporting agency Equifax - launched an online...

Tags: Card, Equifax, i-Cards, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Making clouds a move forward

For a decade I've been writing about Web sites, about e-commerce companies, and about Web 2.0 outfits that hit a wall of scaling. When users "rush to the rail" even systems like Twitter can slow down or crash. The real promise of clouds is to end this fear. by Dana...

Tags: Web, Cloud, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Construction, Web Site Development, Internet, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn, Cloud Computing

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Google earnings estimates cut (again); Search budgets scrutinized; Shares fall

Updated: Wall Street is busy cutting its estimates for Google's fourth quarter amid multiple signs of a slowdown. However, analysts note that Google is a black box and the company could still prove to be recession resistant. But investors aren't sticking around to find out. On Monday,...

Tags: Google Inc., Earnings Estimate, Search Engine Marketer, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Crisis Averted: A Proactive Approach to Mitigating Disaster

Is your business' network - and the IT staff that runs it - prepared to deal with the unthinkable? Is your data secure? Does your current disaster plan streamline your company's operations? Does it resolve your concerns about power and network outages? View this 1-hour Webcast, sponsored by Qwest Communications,...

Tags: CIO, Qwest Communications Inc., Network, Disaster Recovery, Networking, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-11-12

Will you lose pictures stored online if your photo site goes bust?

Members of Digital Railroad found out the hard way that the answer may be yes. The digital photo archiving and commerce site used by over 1,500 professional photographers abruptly went dark on October 29th. All that was left up on the site was a note that said "We deeply regret...

Tags: Archiving, Site, Photograph, Business Intelligence, Digital Cameras, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Janice Chen, Image, DRR, PhotoShelter

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Marketers, stop the hate! Customers are not the enemy

Guest editorial by Susan Etlinger Back in the seventeenth century, soldiers would spend the cold winter months in towns and garrisons until the weather cleared enough for them to venture back into the field (in Italian, nella campagna) to resume fighting. And...

Tags: Technologists, Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-11-11

MySpace, MTV cast lot with Auditude: Who will follow?

MySpace and MTV have teamed with Auditude, an online advertising technology startup, to insert ads in pirated content. The goal: Allow content owners to profit from clips uploaded and distributed without permission. While the deal statement has raised quite a ruckus on Techmeme and most of the...

Tags: Advertisement, Owner, MySpace, MTV, Auditude, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Akamai: Weathering a price war; economic slowdown

Akamai, the leader in content delivery networks--services that speed up video and Web pages on the Internet, posted solid third quarter results, but cut the outlook for the fourth quarter. The economy was cited for the lower guidance but some analysts say that price competition may be more worrisome. ...

Tags: Akamai Technologies Inc., Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-31

Patent ruling: Good or bad for tech innovation?

A rejection of a patent application by a U.S. appeals court today is expected to send shockwaves through some industries, notably the software industry, as it will likely put an end to the patenting of "business methods" considered to be more entrepreneurial than innovative. Meanwhile, some say the ruling is...

Tags: Innovation, Patent, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-30

nopCommerce (rar)

nopCommerce has everything you need to get started in selling physical and digital goods over the Internet. nopCommerce is focused on providing a robust e-commerce application that is stable and highly usable. nopCommerce is a open source e-commerce solution that is ASP.NET 3.5 based with a MS SQL 2005 (or...

Tags: E-business, NopSolutions, nopCommerce, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet

Software downloads 2008-10-30

Tech economy: Is the forecast glass half-empty or half-full?

Talk about a doom-and-gloom outlook for the tech economy. Tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis  - founder of Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs, and Mahalo.com - has fired off a pretty glass-half-empty message to startups, via his e-mail subscription list. It's been about a week since Calacanis announced layoffs...

Tags: Tech, Blog, Cell Phone Penetration, Tech Topic, Blogging, E-mail, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-27