Driving B2B


Last year Santa chose GXS to manage his B2B infrastructure in order to try and streamline his present sourcing and delivery service. I posted a blog last Christmas that explained the core components that made up Project Dasher, Santa’s code name for his Outsourced B2B environment.

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The 14th December 2009 was an important day for the mobile telecommunications industry, it saw the launch of the world’s first commercial 4G network. There have been many 4G network trials around the world over the past couple of years, but the new 4G network developed by TeliaSonera , which has been setup in Sweden [...]

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Today’s automotive industry has operations in all major economies around the world. Whether it is in the more established markets such as North America or Europe or the newer automotive markets such as China, India or Russia, each region has had to establish communities of trading partners to support the new car manufacturing plants.

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Well I guess the Chief Social Networking Officer (CSNO) role will be created at some point!, after all in recent years a number of new CXO level positions have been created to help manage the extended enterprise. In June for example, at a conference in London, I heard IBM talk about the importance of the Chief [...]

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In an earlier post about cloud computing I started to talk about the continued development of SaaS based B2B applications.  In the past two weeks there have been a couple of interesting developments in the cloud computing space.

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The other day whilst reviewing my Facebook page I noticed an unusual banner advert appear on the right hand side of my profile.  Now I am not sure how the advert knew that I had a manufacturing related marketing role at GXS but I was intrigued to say the least!

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In my previous blog entry I discussed a new research project which was recently conducted by AMR Research and was sponsored by GXS. Yesterday GXS announced a press release regarding this important new research project with AMR Research. The survey was conducted by 121 multi-national companies and the distribution of the respondents can be seen [...]

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Earlier this year I posted a blog entry which discussed how ERP projects were being delayed due to B2B integration issues. I also went on to explain how B2B outsourcing could be one path for companies to take during complex ERP related implementation projects.

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Earlier this year I posted a blog entry discussing the outlook for the high tech industry in 2009. I discussed how many of the computer and electronics manufacturers were starting to embrace the whole ‘green thing’ so to speak.

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Whilst reviewing the high tech industry news over the weekend I found an interesting article which discussed how to monitor and improve the performance of supply chains in the high tech industry. Now as we know, today’s high tech supply chains have become global in nature, mainly due to the need to lower operational costs by setting up manufacturing plants [...]

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