But according to Jaap Favier, a B2B expert at Forrester Research, the financial barriers should not mean companies shy away from B2B technologies. Integration technologies have the power to bring to life islands of data held in databases and ERP...
Equant has won a €39m global network outsourcing deal with hotel chain Le Méridien. An IP virtual private network (VPN) will connect 60 sites in more than 17 countries around the world and all the hotel's core business applications will be hosted...
Many firms have already begun integrating their IM solutions with their corporate directories, which has helped firms achieve tangible improvements in metrics such as call centre productivity and project management effectiveness.
Enhancements in Office 2003 are focused on automating business tasks and integrating documents with corporate computing resources. A small British software maker plans to challenge one of Microsoft's most profitable markets by selling its low-cost...
In terms of how the money is best split, most of a company's IT investments - between 30 and 60 per cent - should focus on maintaining and enhancing basic IT services and core business applications, with another 10 to 30 per cent of the IT spend...
Another key project down the road is integrating Office Live Workspaces with other "Live" products such as Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger, so people will be able to view Office attachments they get via email or IM.
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