Companies will not effectively roll-out business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions unless they upgrade their legacy IT systems, says Greg Vercellotti, sales and marketing manager at Dimension Data i-Commerce.
Mike Wright, CEO of The E-mail Corporation, believes electronic bill presentation and payment (EBPP) can result in cost-savings for companies.
Martin May, regional director of Enterasys Networks SA, examines the future of wireless networking in light of the rise of new standards such as Bluetooth and Home Radio Frequency.
The emergence of wireless technologies has raised several health questions, says Andre Rossouw, Toshiba product manager at SDD.
Video-over-networks is transforming call centres by reducing the time required to train agents, believes Mark Chertkow, MD of Graphic Image Technologies.
Louis Helmbold, HP network and storage consultant at Tarsus Technologies, examines clusters and their role in the enterprise.
A company`s internal processes need to be working properly before they can be e-enabled, says Richard Firth, chairman and CEO of MIP Holdings.
The significance of routing switches during the design of new networks is over-rated and not cost-effective, believes Louis Helmbold, HP network and storage consultant at Tarsus Technologies.
Streaming media can circumvent the problem of transmitting images and sound over the Internet, believes Mark Chertkow, MD of Graphic Image Technologies.
Changes in telecommunications demonstrate a need to increase cost-efficiencies and automate business processes, says Mark Ehmke, MD of Staffware SA.
Electronic customer relationship management (e-CRM) requires proactive intelligence and not historical analysis, believes Marc Scheepbouwer, marketing director at Global Technology Business Intelligence.
Data warehouses are designed specifically to meet the needs of an organisation's knowledge workers, says Andre Zitzke, CTO at SAS Institute.
Pieter Meyer, portfolio manager, project management at AST IT Solutions, discusses the change in demand for project management skills.