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Business
News via the Value Framework™ Lenses
Management Perspective
by
Mitchell Levy, Author, E-Volve-or-Die.com, Author,
the Value Framework™
Executive
Producer, VMS3.info
VMS3.info News
How XML Is Changing E-Commerce
XML (extensible markup language), with its potential for helping companies
find common ground on which to exchange and interpret data between disparate systems.
For example, for enterprises to get the most out of order-management applications,
"it is absolutely critical to have XML," Louis Columbus, an analyst
with AMR Research, told the E-Commerce Times...
The Metamorphosis Of Information
Information, not physical goods,
will soon form the core of every industry's new supply chains. Good Service Trumps Price, Brand in B2B
Researchers at Cornell University have found that trust and effective communication
-- in other words, good customer service -- are more important to food-service
purchasing agents than any other factor measured, including price and brand.
Facing the Complexity of the Global Supply Chain
Supplier relationship management for a global enterprise takes on exponential
complexity when suppliers and partners are located in different countries. Along
with the value of of owning a global brand comes the cost of managing literally
hundreds of vendors and coordinating with dozens of governments to move goods
internationally...
Bringing
a Much Bigger Internet to Light
Deep mining of online data could transform
the way information is collected and analyzed. It promises companies an easier
and more effective way to keep up with their rivals and manage their brands, and
it will help researchers develop a deeper understanding of social and economic
trends...
NEW! OPA: Paid Web Content Becoming Viable Revenue
Source
Ecommerce News — RealNetworks, WSJ.com, Match.com and Yahoo!
emerge as the big winners as efforts to reduce dependencies on advertising begin
to pan out. August 1, 2002
MODEL: PARTICIPANTS
AMAZON EXTENDS ITS REACH WITH WEB SERVICES
BOSTON - AMAZON.COM rolled out the welcome mat Tuesday for Web site developers
and owners to build applications and tools that will allow them to incorporate
Amazon's offerings into their sites. In a bid to drum up more traffic and sales,
the e-commerce giant is offering Amazon.com Web Services for free, allowing third-party
sites to search and display Amazon products. SAP Lands Ford,
Caterpillar
Massive deal to revolutionize OEMs' service parts delivery
processes; touches thousands of dealers, millions of line items. Following months
of discussions, enterprise application software vendor SAP has signed a big deal
with Ford and Caterpillar. Ford and Caterpillar partnered in 2001 to refine and
speed up processes surrounding the delivery of service parts. Today, SAP announced
that the companies will use elements of mySAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) and
mySAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to manage the parts delivery piece
of their respective businesses.
Commerce One/SAP
Land Samsung
Existing SAP R/3 customer turns to Commerce One/SAP's joint
MarketSet solution to build out private exchange; analysts weigh in on much-scrutinized
partnership
STRATEGY
DEPLOYED Why E-Commerce Law Enforcement
Is an Oxymoron
In the few years since the Internet has become an important
venue for commerce, communications and entertainment, so-called cybercops have
tried to impose a variety of rules, regulations and guidelines to protect the
interests of consumers and businesses. Unfortunately, however, no mechanism yet
exists to enforce such initiatives...
EBay
To Buy PayPal in $1.5B Deal
In a widely anticipated move, auction giant
eBay has announced it will acquire online payment company PayPal in an all-stock
deal valued at $1.5 billion. EBay said it will phase out its own Billpoint system,
long a disappointment to the auction site, after the PayPal deal closes...
Microsoft Positions Passport as E-Payment Tool
On the heels of eBay's $1.5 billion PayPal acquisition, Microsoft is making its
own play to compete in the online payment space. The software giant has announced
a partnership that will allow banks to authenticate Visa and MasterCard credit
cards with a shopper's Microsoft Passport username and password...
Business Objects Broadens Analytical Apps
Business Objects is expanding its analytical applications suite by building predictive
analysis and statistical process control into its Application Foundation software
and adding planning, manufacturing, and product-return modules to its supply-chain
analysis applications. IBM
to Buy PwC Consulting
Global services powerhouse would be created in $3.5
billion stock and cash deal; regulatory review likely, analyst says STRATEGY:
MANAGED Stormy Skies, and a Silver Lining, for Boeing
By
most accounts, Boeing has pulled off a turnaround in the past five years. The
company has streamlined production, bought a profitable military-aircraft business
and clarified its famously unreadable accounting statements. But the nation's
only major commercial aircraft manufacturer is still yoked to the airline market,
and that market is downbeat, to say the least. Knowledge@Wharton looks at the
company's long-range flight plan. HP
Shifts Software Strategy
As the post-merger decision-making process shifts
into high gear, Hewlett-Packard has announced a new software strategy designed
to leverage its core assets. The technology titan will focus future development
on extending three software suites. Company executives said the decision was based
on customer acceptance of those three products.
ANALYSIS: HP ABANDONS WEB SERVICES SHIP
HEWLETT-PACKARD
CONFIRMED months of rumors this week by abandoning several of its middleware products.
By leaving for dead much of the application server stack it acquired from Bluestone
for approximately $470 million, HP in effect is also leaving behind its Web services
infrastructure leadership ambition. Touting internal middleware technology investments
and partnerships, systems management titans such as IBM and Computer Associates
(CA) are poised to take
advantage of HP's abandoned middleware strategy by
pushing added functionality across its product lines without additional costs
upon users, analysts said.
Online Value: ROI Overrated
Why "show me the money" may not be the right demand for e-business projects.
Diversified Sun
Returns to Profitability
Sun Microsystems reported fiscal fourth-quarter
profits of $20 million, signaling a return to profitability for the technology
giant amid industry-wide economic woes. "We stated a goal of reporting a
profit this quarter and we achieved that goal," said Sun chief executive
officer Scott McNealy...
Digital
Cockpits Track a Corporation's Performance
Corporations may not like the
numbers they have been seeing lately while reviewing their financial performance.
But some companies, at least, are becoming much better at tracking that data. Amazon
Might Try On Clothing Business
Amazon.com is reportedly exploring relationships
with clothing retailers, a move that could result in yet another new market for
the e-tailing giant. Amazon could launch an online clothing store that features
items from Nordstrom and Gap -- which includes Banana Republic and Old Navy --
as early as this summer or fall...
With Acquisition, Expedia Eyes Corporate Travel Biz
Travel
company Expedia has announced it will buy a privately held business travel agency
and will use the acquisition as the core of an effort to enter the corporate travel
market. Expedia did not disclose terms of its purchase of Metropolitan Travel,
but it noted that the 20-year-old firm did $150 million in gross bookings last
year...
The Next Wave of E-Commerce Technology
In the not-too-distant
future, e-commerce technology not only will become smarter and faster, but could
completely transform the way companies deal with internal information, customer
service and the sales process. "We're starting to see the theories of the
mid-'90s play out in the real world now," Aberdeen Group research director
Kent Allen told
the E-Commerce Times...
Covisint: Back to Sourcing
Automotive marketplace Covisint
inks deal with spending analysis specialist Zycus; analyst says Covisint returning
to vision of being sourcing and messaging hub About
the Author: Mitchell
Levy, is President and CEO of ECnow.com (http://ecnow.com),
an e-commerce management consulting company helping individuals and corporations
transition from the industrial age to the Internet age through strategy, marketing,
and off-the-shelf and customized on-line and on-ground training. He is the author
of E-Volve-or-Die.com (http://e-volve-or-die.com),
author of the Value Framework™
(http://ecnow.com/value), Executive Producer
of VMS3.info (http://VMS3.info), the Founder and
Program Consultant of the premier San Jose State E-Commerce Management Certificate
Program (http://ecmtraining.com/sjsu),
Chair of comdex.biz at Comdex Fall, and Chairman of the Pay-per-Performance PR
Agency Media Attention Now TM (http://ecnow.com/mediaattention),
the on-line learning content production company Transition Learning (http://transitionlearning.com)
and the CEO Networking organization CEOnetworking (http://ceonetworking.com).
Mitchell was at Sun Microsystems for 9 years, the last 4 of which he managed the
e-commerce component of Sun's $3.5 billion supply chain. Mitchell is a popular
speaker, lecturing on ECM issues throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Read more about Mr. Levy: http://ecnow.com/ml_bio.htm
Public speaking appearances I've given: http://ecnow.com/speaking.htm
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