As I witness the trend toward collaboration in e-business, I have to smile. Society has long held that collaboration garners less-satisfying results than the more popular top-down management style of many businesses. And yet, collaboration is quickly emerging as a fertile ground for e-business. Years ago, as an executive manager at Hewlett-Packard, where people are […]
Like the brazen wolf that leads the pack into unexplored territories, systems integrators can lead clients into once-overlooked areas like data integration, enabling businesses to collaborate online by providing access to important data in back-office systems. The B2B trend toward e-marketplaces requires that data be integrated in order to supply Web-accessible back-office information. Data integration […]