digital transformation
Ten Reasons Why Cloud B2B Integration Helps With International Expansion Projects
Global expansion has been undertaken by many companies over the past decade, whether it is simply to get a foothold…
Read more »How B2B Integration Automates the Procure-to-Pay Cycle for Manufacturing Companies
Large companies in the aerospace, automotive, high tech and industrial manufacturing sector purchase trillions of dollars of goods every year. …
Read more »Reconsider Your B2B Strategy – Reason 1: Reduce Costs
Whatever the economic conditions, it makes good commercial sense to drive cost from your business processes by identifying inefficiencies and…
Read more »It’s hybrid, but not as we know it
One thing I know for sure is, hybrid B2B solutions are here to stay. Over my last couple of blogs…
Read more »Hybrid B2B: A help or a hindrance?
In my last blog we were debating the pros and cons of hybrid B2B solutions. The main thread to our…
Read more »Hybrid isn’t just for cars. Why not in B2B?
We’ve been discussing a hybrid approach to B2B integration strategies here recently. The official definition of hybrid is a something…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »The Second Biggest Risk in Supply Chain?
It’s been tough, but I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking recently. And I’ve been thinking about risk in…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »B2B Integration will play a critical role in the Second Economy
Earlier this month W. Brian Arthur published an excellent article in the McKinsey Quarterly about “The Second Economy.” By the…
Read more »All the Technology Giants are Investing in B2B Integration
SAP announced this morning that it plans to fully acquire Crossgate. This is good news for the B2B integration sector…
Read more »AS2 and Internet EDI – Nine Years Later
On September 9th, 2002 Walmart announced its intention to shift to a new Internet-based EDI system using technology from a…
Read more »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…
Read more »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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