Last week GXS attended and exhibited at the NACHA PAYMENTS 2012 conference in Baltimore MD. There were many interesting educational sessions to choose from across several tracks. One session caught my eye in the Corporate Payments Solution track titled “The ERP Integration Cloud is Here!” presented by Rene Schuurman, Director and Product Manager Connectivity, from Citi [...]
Read More» GXS recently sponsored a webinar titled “Key Technology Initiatives for Commercial Banking and Payments 2012.” CEB TowerGroup Research Director Steve Murphy and Associate Analyst Leo Lipis joined me to present the key business dynamics driving technology priorities in 2012. (You can view a replay of the webinar and get a copy of the slides.) Steve [...]
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Many of today’s IT departments have been relatively slow to embrace cloud computing. Cloud computing is not just hype and it is not something that can be ignored especially with so many analysts getting behind how this technology can help companies become more efficient with how they manage IT infrastructures. Now you can’t tell me [...]
Read More» A few weeks ago, IDC released their annual predictions for the manufacturing sector in 2012. I recently attended two IDC webinars, one focusing on manufacturing trends in EMEA and the other discussing general technology trends across the sector. Now there weren’t too many surprises in terms of where manufacturers should invest their money this year, [...]
Read More» I have been a GXS blogger for four years now and during 2011 I posted nearly forty blog entries covering a range of B2B and manufacturing related topics. Over this time Google Analytics has provided me with some interesting feedback on which blog posts were being read the most, which key words were used to [...]
Read More» In my previous blog entry I described how GXS had nominated Santa Claus to win a B2B Heroes in the Cloud Award for 2011. I then went on to discuss how Santa had implemented his cloud based B2B environment over the last three years. You can find out more information about how Santa’s B2B platform [...]
Read More» GXS recently announced the winners of its 2011 B2B Heroes in the Cloud Awards. These awards were presented to 20 individuals who had made a significant impact on how B2B was used within their company. Nearing the end of 2011, GXS felt that there was one other individual who should be recognised for his contributions to [...]
Read More» Over the past couple of years a number of technology developments have brought us to the edge of a mobile B2B revolution in the enterprise computing space. Enterprise adoption of cloud computing technologies, introduction of tablet devices and the development of enterprise specific apps will lead to the mobilization of the B2B space in 2012. [...]
Read More» The analyst firm IDC recently undertook a research study to get a better understanding of cloud computing adoption levels in the manufacturing industry. One of the major conclusions from the research was that manufacturers are looking at cloud computing as a key driver of IT productivity in the future. The study revealed that 22% of those surveyed [...]
Read More» Earlier in the year I posted a blog entry discussing why manufacturing companies should consider using cloud based environments. One thing I didn’t do in that particular post was to discuss exactly what a cloud computing environment is made up of and what benefits companies can expect to receive by adopting such services. There are [...]
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