More and more corporate treasury organizations are considering SWIFT services to route payment instructions or collect account statements from their banks around the world. But…

Earlier this month Actuate released the new BIRT Viewer Toolkit (BVT) for the BIRT developer community. The BVT makes integration into your project a breeze…

We had a “standing room only” crowd at our recent GXS webinar, “How to Determine the Best Communications Protocol for B2B Integration.” In an easy-to-understand…

The global automotive industry has grown around a collection of regional B2B standards, primarily covering documents and communication protocols. The key automotive regions even had…

In a recent announcement GXS highlighted the reasons behind our new membership to the National Automated Clearing House Association’s Global Payment Forum. Last week, I…

GXS recently sponsored a webinar titled “Compliance in the Cloud: Raising the Bar in Financial Services.” CEB TowerGroup Senior Research Director Rod Nelsestuen joined me…

Large companies in the aerospace, automotive, high tech and industrial manufacturing sector purchase trillions of dollars of goods every year.  Most of the purchases consist…

Yesterday, SAP announced its intention to acquire B2B e-commerce vendor, Ariba for $4.3 billion. In addition to its suite of spend management and procure-to-pay applications,…

It is not news that buying on credit (open-account) dominates global trade. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) generally acknowledged that at least 80-85% of…

Today’s ERP environments are at the centre of many enterprise IT infrastructures, from managing employee or customer related information through to delivering information required to…

On September 9th, 2002 Walmart announced its intention to shift to a new Internet-based EDI system using technology from a small software company called iSoft….

Since IBM’s acquisition of Sterling Commerce in May there has been a lot of discussion about the consolidation of B2B networks (and what it means…