E-Business Resource

There is an enormous amount of valuable information about E-business (especially, B2B electronic commerce) on the Internet; the volume grows hourly. This is a problem for our visitors who need: a) a concentrated focus on B2B EC business planning and management issues, and b) regular updates on these rapidly changing issues.

What You Will Find Here

At the outset, we are providing a list of topical articles with links to their source technical and business journal sources. For now, they are divided into several broad categories: basic, issues, service providers, etc. As we receive feedback from our visitors, we’ll refine the organization and the topics.

Our new IT Benchmarking section is designed in response to our visitors comments and requests. Let us know what you would like to see here about business-to-business electronic commerce business management issues.

Basics

	A Framework For Global E-Commerce (IITF)
	Choices Abound For B2B E-Commerce (ZDNet)
	Supply Chain 101: What Is A Supply Chain and Why Is It Important? (Interworks)
	Auctions Reveal Another Side of B2B Commerce (ZDNet)
	What Really is "E-Business"? (i.e. "B2B") (PWC Global)
	It's Not Easy Being B2B (CIO)
	Slow Revolution in E-Commerce (InformationWeek)
	The Word is Enough (CFO Net)
	E-Markets Are Expanding - Online Exchanges Add More Services and Interconnections (InformationWeek)
	The New Desktop: Powerful Portals (InformationWeek)
	Through The Portals - How Corporate Portals Are Impacting The Computing and Business Landscape (SAP)
	Think A Chain of Efficiencies (InternetWeek)
	Webware For Rent (Northern Light)
	Prepping Yourself for the ASP Craze (Interworks)
	Marrying the Internet to Your Supply Chain (Interworks)

Issues

	New Market Makers (InformationWeek)
	B2B Partners Beware (ZDNet)
	B2B Messy Relationships Will Get More Entangled (ZDNet)
	Game Makers File Lawsuit Against Yahoo (IDG)
	The Big Squeeze (InformationWeek)
	Gearing Up For E-Commerce (ZDNet)
	ERP-Quake! (CIO)
	Can You Do The WWW? (CIO)
	New Era of Network (Red Herring)
	A Question of Convenience -- Hosted ERP Applications Can Be Quicker, Cheaper, And Less Risky Than Conventional Implementations (TechWeb)
	ERP's Promised Land (ComputerWorld)
	Study: Adding ERP Gobbles Time, Money (CNet)
	Everybody's Getting Into the Act (ComputerWorld)
	Collaboration-More Hype Than Reality (InternetWeek)
	Holy Grail: A Single Purchasing Interface (InternetWeek)
	Customer Service-Users Forced To Build Apps (InternetWeek)
	Mastering ERP's "Dirty Dozen" --How to Identify and Overcome ERP's "Top 12" Obstacles (Interworks)
	Juggling Toward ERP Success Keep Key Success Factors High (Interworks)
	Navigating the ERP Implementation Maze (Interworks)
	Two Views on ERP: Outsourcing Pros and Cons, And Hitching Up With E-Commerce (IDG)
	Enterprise Application Integration --Tools to Get ERP Systems to Work Together (Interworks)
	Online Collaboration Tools Help Simplify Product Design (InformationWeek)
	Redefining Business: Free Trade Zones (InformationWeek)
	Redefining Business: Revenge of The Giants (InformationWeek)
	Create Purchase Orders and Check On Them Via The Web (InformationWeek)
	Supply Chains Go Global (InformationWeek)
	SAP Tries Its Hand At Collaborative Development Package (InformationWeek)
	VIRTUAL TEAMS LIGHT UP GE -- Customers, suppliers linked in real time with collaboration apps
	Supply Chain Demand: Web integrator steps up -- Inforte Stresses Importance Of Supply Chain Management (InformationWeek)
	Supply Chains Go Global - Tighter Supply Chain Helps Lucent Speed Deliveries (InformationWeek)
	Supply Chains Go Global - RosettaNet Helps Companies Speak The Same Language (InformationWeek)
	Businesses Seek To Cut Weak Links From Supply Chains (InformationWeek)
	Marketplaces Bring Order And Efficiency To Supply Chains (InformationWeek)
	Managing The Supply Chain: Customers Come First (InformationWeek)
	Monster in a Box? (CIO)

Service Providers/Applications

	EAI Trio Maps Out Plans For Enhanced Wares (ZDNet)
	New Market Makers (InformationWeek)
	Q&A Novell's Eric Schmidt (Computer World)
	Tool Aims To Speed B2B Customization (ZDNet)
	i2 Comes of Age (Forbes)
	The AOL of B-to-B (Forbes)
	Portals (Business2)
	ChannelPoint's Challenge (Forbes)
	A Virtual Chemical Bazaar (Forbes)
	The ASP Dilemma (Forbes)
	Cut Through The E-Biz Software Hype (TechWeb)
	SAP Launches mySAP.com™ Marketplace for the SAP Community (SAP)
	SAP Takes e-Commerce to New Level With mySAP.com™ (SAP)
	GE Info Systems Exits Proprietary Network Arena (Computer World)
	PeopleSoft Details ASP Plans (ComputerWorld)
	The ASP Approach: Experience Equals New Products (InformationWeek)
	Now Comes the Hard Part (Intelligent Enterprise)
	IBM, Ariba, i2 Form E-Commerce Alliance (ComputerWorld)
	SAP Exec Crafts Plan, Tools for Midmarket ERP (Interworks)
	ERP Gets Down to Business (Interworks)
	Directory of Application Service Providers (Datamation)
	Datamation: Product Of The Year For 1999: E-Commerce, Extranets, & Intranets Commerce One Marketsite 3.0 Means Business (Datamation)
	New Market Makers - Technology Vendors Are Trying To Position Themselves As The Operators Of The Infrastructure For E-Business (InformationWeek)
	Next Frontier: Hub Integration -- Manugistics Unveils Software For Tying Together E-Marketplaces (TechWeb)
	Bowstreet And Webmethods Join Forces To Provide Broad Solution For B2b Marketplaces (b2b.com)
	Bowstreet Offers Plug and Play Web Services (Infoworld)
	Bowstreet
	Luna
	SupplierMarket
	Azurix Corp. Expands Water2Water.com to Become First Internet-Base Vertical Marketplace in the Water and Wastewater Industry (Azurix)
	Water2Water
	BarterTrust
	VerticalNet
	RetailExchange
	Comergent Strengthens Online Links (InformationWeek)
	Clarus Regroups to Push Business-to-Business Software (Cnet)
	Oracle Rolls Out of Business-Intelligence Products (InformationWeek)
	BroadVision Survives and Thrives (InformationWeek)
	Sapient Shrugs Off Market Flip-Flops (InformationWeek)

Large Enterprise

	Utilities From Supply-Chain E-Market (Computer World)
	CompUSA Learns About Online Sales (InformationWeek)
	Wall Street Wired (Forbes)
	Internet Shakeup for Insurance (IDG)
	Financial Services: Trading Initiates Flurry of Changes (InternetWeek)
	Financial Services: Q&A: Edward Miller, CEP of AXA Financial Inc. (InternetWeek)
	Big Brokerages To Expand Bond Site Into Securities Hub (ComputerWorld)
	Dell In Alliance With Ariba (InformationWeek)

Small-Medium Enterprise (SME)

	Midsize Companies Take A Step Beyond With ASP (InternetWeek)
	E-Commerce On a Smaller Scale (InformationWeek)

Government/Non-Profit

CA Buys Federal E-Biz Consultant (Computer World)

International

	Telecoms and Banks Tie the Knot (Business Week)
	Why Italy May Squander Its Net Future (Business Week)
	So This Is Asia's Net Hub? (Business Week)
	Is the Showroom Dead? (Forbes)

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