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After Abandoning Commerce One, SAP Ends Up Acquiring Ariba
Yesterday, SAP announced its intention to acquire B2B e-commerce vendor, Ariba for $4.3 billion. In addition to its suite of…
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Transaction Banking: Should you Grow Your own Timber?
A compelling bank value proposition has to be unique – differentiated with a clear justification to enter or expand the…
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The world turned upside down: The three R’s of supply chain.
Having just spent a few days in Germany at the EDIFICE High Technology conference, I’ve concluded strange things are happening…
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Three Cloud-Based Integration Models for B2B
In the traditional B2B integration model, a company licenses software from a vendor then deploys it in its’ own data…
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Why Pay Suppliers on Time?
It is not news that buying on credit (open-account) dominates global trade. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) generally acknowledged…
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What is an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)?
I think it is fair to say that iPaaS is one of the most confusing terms in the cloud computing…
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OFTP2 Adoption Levels Will Significantly Increase in 2012
The OFTP2 implementation guidelines were introduced at the end of 2008, at a time when many companies were just starting…
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Top 5 Tips for Successfully Deploying ERP/B2B Integration Projects
Today’s ERP environments are at the centre of many enterprise IT infrastructures, from managing employee or customer related information through…
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Upgrading Your Treasury Management System? Five Questions to Consider about Bank Connectivity
Are you in the process of upgrading your Treasury Management System (TMS)? So are many other Global 1000 organizations. At…
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How do you go about expanding your B2B platform into a new market? – Part2
In this blog I would like to discuss some of the more technical considerations that have to be taken into…
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Understanding the Basics of Cloud Computing
Earlier in the year I posted a blog entry discussing why manufacturing companies should consider using cloud based environments. One…
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How will Cloud Computing Benefit the Manufacturing Industry?
I have been working in the IT industry for nearly 20 years now and I have always worked very closely…
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Will AS4 Become the Communications Standard for Cloud Based Integration Services?
2010 has certainly been the year when Cloud Computing has started to get on to the agenda of many CIOs…
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Who has the Largest B2B Integration Network?
Since IBM’s acquisition of Sterling Commerce in May there has been a lot of discussion about the consolidation of B2B…
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