Monthly Archives: July 2001
Volkswagen Steering Online Auctions In-House
Volkswagen may become the first old Economy company to bring electronic auctions within its own operations on a large scale. The German automaker said...
Hopeful Signs Emerge for Technology Spending Upturn
Signs of hope emerged last week that the downturn in IT spending is starting to ease.Technology investors grasped at upbeat announcements from three giants:...
The Real Verdict: A Win For IT
With the benefit of a couple of weeks of perspective, its clear that there was not nearly as much good news for Microsoft as...
Smart Tags: Too Much Ado About Nothing
One of the good things to come out of bad economic times should be better products. Successful vendors focus on solving pressing business problems...
eFiles: July 16, 2001
CRM spending is up by leaps and boundsSeventy-four percent of businesses will spend more money on customer relationship management software and hardware this year...
Small E-Biz Gets Web Boost
Actinic Software LLC and Mercantec Inc. hope to ride the wave of small businesses evolving from simple Web storefronts and shopping carts to more...
New Link in Supply Chain Apps: Modularity
Supply chain management software developer i2 Technologies Inc. is getting ready to put the best face possible on what is expected to be a...
App Helps Buyers Tune B2B Purchasing
Rapt Inc. is looking to take the guesswork out of business-to-business procurement. Rapt last week introduced the second generation of its Rapt Buy application...
Cover Your E-Assets
No one expects to be hacked, of course. But companies can protect themselves — just in case the unthinkable happens."Cyberinsurance" is the moniker most...
Can Sellers Get Off the Phone?
With the transaction technology and governance of big business-to-business, online trading hubs in place, operators of many of those ventures are finding that setting...