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IBM releases new B2B integration solutions

Posted on September 22, 2011

Aiming to help customers automate supplier and trading partner interactions, IBM recently announced the release of several new business integration solutions as part of its overall Smarter Commerce initiative.The Commerce-as-a-Service and Social Media Marketing solutions both stem from several acquisitions made by IBM, the company announced. The solutions also allow organizations to turn insights into marketing and sales actions, as well as connect online, mobile and social channels to brick-and-mortar Read more [...]

Business integration could ease auto industry supply chain pain

Posted on August 22, 2011

Long a pillar of the American and global economy, the auto manufacturing business has undergone drastic changes during the past several years. And neither the trials nor tribulations have been lost on the supply chains of companies throughout the sector.Research from the Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio, pointed to an impending transformation for the supply chain community management among auto industry organizations. A focus on business integration Read more [...]

Aberdeen: Business integration key as data continues to grow

Posted on August 18, 2011

Market research firm the Aberdeen Group recently reported that as the data explosion continues, business integration solutions are becoming even more important.SaaS adoption projections already forced various experts to highlight the value of middleware. Now, as data integration, and the movement of this data from one solution to another, becomes critical, businesses need middleware to prevent issues.According to Aberdeen, the next 12 months will likely represent a major shift in enterprise IT. More Read more [...]

Middleware market rebounds, IDC finds

Posted on May 31, 2011

As was the case for many industries, the global economic recession hit the market for business process management and middleware solutions hard. However, the trend appears to have reversed, according to new market analysis from IDC.Last year, the market for these business integration solutions totaled $16.1 billion, which constituted 9.2 percent growth compared to 2009. That year, the market only grew 2.2 percent."The BPM and middleware market continues to gain share overall in IT spending. Read more [...]

GXS acquires RollStream, strengthens speed and simplicity of global B2B integration

Posted on March 31, 2011

Global B2B e-commerce firm GXS has announced that it will acquire RollStream, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) leader of enterprise community management.This acquisition accelerates GXS’s strategy to speed and simplify the integration of global business communities. By combining the RollStream solution with the GXS Trading Grid, which is the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS expects to enhance the performance of global business and supply chain operations for its customers.According Read more [...]

Integration critical for mergers and acquisitions

Posted on March 14, 2011

When companies complete mergers and acquisitions, business integration is among the most challenging parts of turning the new development into profits. According to a recent CIO UK report, CIOs need to carefully manage the business integration process because muddled strategies can drastically reduce financial gains.The report emphasized the importance of IT integration during merger and acquisition periods. As a general rule, the report said integrating IT business process as fast as possible is Read more [...]

EDI business integration platform reaching new audiences

Posted on March 4, 2011

Liaison Technologies recently announced plans to carry electronic data interchange business integration software as part of its cloud services plan. The company will deploy EDI Notepad as part of this program, giving customers powerful, cloud-based business integration through outsourced EDI services.EDI Notepad Express is available through Liaison Technologies because of its purchase of Softshare last year. The express version of Notepad is available as a free application, and an enterprise-class Read more [...]

EDI is key to Indian exporters self-assessing duty payments

Posted on March 2, 2011

Electronic data interchange would play an important role in the reporting of duty liabilities for Indian importers and exporters under a new self-assessment system proposed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, according to the Economic Times.Under the new system, importers and exporters will have the ability to assess their own duty liabilities and file them with the government through an EDI business integration solution. The move is an effort to expedite and modernize the shipping and receiving Read more [...]

WIMA Group announces shift to electronic data integration

Posted on February 28, 2011

The WIMA Group of Companies, which for the past 60 years has been a leading manufacturer of film capacitors, recently announced it will soon switch from a reliance on paper documents to electronic data interchange for business integration.It had previously relied on paper for order and invoice transactions and processes, the company said. That made for an unnecessary increase in time and resources for sending and receiving documents through postal services.That will change once the company deploys Read more [...]

Apparel vendors deploy electronic data interchange solution

Posted on February 17, 2011

Apparel vendors Magaschoni, Alara Shirt and Spring Footwear recently deployed an electronic data interchange business integration solution from eZCom Software, the vendor recently announced.All are now utilizing the eZCom Lingo EDI service, a hosted integration solution developed for companies in all industries. The companies can utilize the solution for transferring purchase orders, advancing ship notices and creating and sending invoices to department stores such as Dillards, Saks 5th Avenue, Bloomingdales Read more [...]