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AS2 or Traditional EDI – Which is Better?
Companies of all sizes have found significant cost savings by automating high-volume or time-consuming processes—B2B commerce is no exception. Automating…
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OFTP2, the ‘Fort Knox’ of B2B Communication Protocols?
Fort Knox has featured in many movies over the years, often labelled as the most secure bank vault in the…
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Eurofinance SEPA Conference 2013 – Who Wins My “Guinea Pig” Award?
This week, I have been at the EuroFinance SEPA Conference in Frankfurt. In less than eleven months SEPA ends and the…
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The Bank’s SWIFT infrastructure: “I” should not stand for Interbank
When SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) allowed access to corporates, more than a decade ago, SWIFT-enabled banks were…
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Don’t Neglect Any Customer – Every Customer Matters
In any trading community, there’s a mix of large, medium and small-size customers, but typically, only the top 20% of…
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2013’s Supplier of the Year Will Be The Crowd
In 2013, crowdsourcing will move from being considered a risky experiment that a handful of innovative companies are piloting to…
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How to Avoid The Bank’s 2012 Mayan Calendar
Last week, the Financial Services industry saw another global banking group announce plans to execute an aggressive cost-cutting plan. Similar decisions…
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GXS Discusses Industry Challenges Over on AutomotiveWorld.com
Over the past few months I have been submitting a number of articles to an automotive industry related website called…
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How Adaptive Case Management Can Help in the Battle for Same Day Delivery
The award for special delivery arguably goes to Santa Claus, but this holiday season delivery may also prove to be…
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Omnichannel Retail – don’t drop (ship) the priority of visibility and performance metrics!
I am really enjoying video blogging, so I’m wrapping up the drop ship blog series with another video. Today’s topic…
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There Has Never Been a Better Time to Revisit EDI (part 1)
Perhaps it is EDI’s name—Electronic Data Interchange—that makes it sound more like a data format and less like a business…
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What Apple’s Lightning Connector Can Teach Us About Interoperability
The big news last week was Apple’s new iPhone 5. Although the new phone is lacking in revolutionary features like…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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2012 B2B Predictions – So far so good..?
Earlier in the year we offered 2012 predictions in the world of B2B and I was asked for my perspective…
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Benefits of using ASNs (Advanced Shipment Notices)
I continue to be surprised by at how many companies are still not requiring Advanced Shipment Notices (ASNs) from their…
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