In the B2B space, vendors have traditionally been striving to serve companies' procurement needs for indirect products. The first large vendors into this space were the leaders of today's B2B market and include Ariba, Commerce One and Oracle, which...
Most still struggled to support the historical self-service medium of interactive voice response (IVR). For medium-sized companies, the expense of buying and integrating their own systems may be well out of reach, and using a service is a potential...
The document definitions were drawn primarily from business-to-business experts and OASIS members CommerceOne and SAP as well as the ebusiness standards work done around ebXML, according to OASIS.ebXML is a jointly sponsored effort by OASIS and...
A new study from the US Commerce Department has found IT industries are growing more quickly and that increased use of IT throughout the economy is spurring improved productivity. The 'Digital Economy 2003' study, released on Tuesday, "shows that...
No other communications medium in recent history has had such a profound impact as the internet on free expression, education, the proliferation of commerce and the exchange of political ideas. Strong copyright protections and efforts to stem...
From mobile handset manufacturers, such as Nokia and Motorola, to IT giants like HP and Dell, to automobile manufacturers such as General Motors and Suzuki Motor, manufacturers from various industries have set up R&D centres that focus on...