B2B

Evolution of E-Business Gateways

--A.T. Kearney

E-Business gateways can enable organizations to achieve their vision of an extended enterprise. They play the role of an access intermediary by connecting organizations and their stakeholders with
e-marketplaces. E-Business gateways offer a definite value proposition to organizations looking forward to make their supply chain more efficient and improve CRM capabilities. The article discusses the applications of e-business gateways, their benefits, and how an organization should go about evaluating them.

© A.T. Kearney, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with permission. Originally published as "The Extended Enterprise - The Evolution of E-Business Gateways".

B2B Marketplaces: Strategies for the Future

--Ken Kenjale, Arnie Phatak

Online B2B marketplaces offer significant opportunities to generate value by automating an organization's collaborative business processes with its value chain partners. Since the late 1990s, several thousands of B2B marketplaces have been established. However, a majority of them have been unsuccessful in doing business profitably. The article explains how an organization should go about developing a B2B marketplace. It also illustrates the benefits and explains how to avoid any pitfalls while implementing.

© Syntel (www.syntelinc.com). Reprinted with permission. Originally published as "B2B Exchanges: Now That We Know Better, How to Move Forward From Here".

E-Laws

Digital Preservation and Copyright

--Peter B Hirtle

Good preservation practice has often existed in a legal gray area. Libraries usually made three copies when microfilming long before the law gave explicit permission for the practice, and many radio programs have been saved only because individuals systematically taped them from the air, without the permission of the copyright owner. Digital preservation resides in an even murkier legal gray area because of the fundamental need to copy digital information (one of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner) in order to preserve it. In addition, there is greater interest in preserving works that you may not own, particularly web pages. The lack of legal certainty, however, should not prevent individuals and libraries from undertaking the socially beneficial task of preserving digital information. The law explicitly authorizes some preservation actions (especially if the materials are not made digitally available to others), and a fair use of defense can be built outside the library or archives.

© 2003, Stanford University. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Reprinted with permission. This article originally appeared in http://fairuse.stanford.edu, commentary-and-analysis/2003-11-hirtle.html.

E - Standards

Quality Standards in the Software Industry

--Surya Kumar Pala

The strategic importance of adopting quality standards cannot be discounted. The CMM Integrated model is a well-accepted quality standard in the global software industry. However, CMMI or any other model is not a panacea, but an aid that will help an organization pursuit the quality efforts. Successful adoption of quality initiatives have come from those organizations where there already existed a culture of quality and there had been a commitment from the top management for the same. The article describes various quality models in vogue in the software industry and details Wipro Technologies' successful adoption of CMMI model.

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ERP

Recent Trends in ERP Industry

--S Subramanian

In 2000, many analysts had predicted that ERP has lost its status as a force to reckon with. But the dynamic strategies of ERP players have revived the market. The article discusses the recent trends in the ERP industry. It describes the emergence of Tier 2 companies, who have gained a significant market share, changing customer profile, outsourcing, consolidation and many other changes happening in the industry.

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