The use of collaborative technologies will drive e-commerce marketplaces to greater profitability and business integration, said Al Zollar, president and CEO of Lotus, at Lotus DevCon 2000 in San Francisco.
Pharmacy benefit manager MediKredit has entered the business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce arena with HealthNet ST software, which was developed by Datrix Solutions.
Y3K Security Products, sole distributor for F-Secure in Africa, says F-Secure has welcomed the signing of US legislation which makes digital signatures legally binding.
Concerns over security and the trustworthiness of trading partners are the biggest obstacles to the expected growth in business-to-business e-procurement over the Internet, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC).
The Notebook Company says the Internet will facilitate all of its sales and general company queries within the next two years.
CCH Enterprise Solutions, local distributor of Aris, says IDS Scheer, a provider of e-business solutions, has announced Aris E-Business, a suite of business process management and modelling tools.
JSE-listed Aqua Online has announced the R10 million acquisition of Adram, an e-strategy and customer relationship management (CRM) company. The deal will be settled through a combination of cash and shares.
SAP says that according to research conducted by the London School of Economics and E-Audits, traditional companies are more successful at e-commerce than many dot-com start-ups.
Lotus Development SA and IBM have introduced the Lotus Developer Network and the Collaboration Zone to provide software developers with resources when developing e-business solutions.
CCH Software Development, local distributor of Iona solutions, says Southwest Airlines has implemented Orbix 2000, an e-business infrastructure of the Iona iPortal suite.
Publication of the Green Paper detailing SA`s draft e-commerce policy will be delayed, says the Department of Communications, mainly due to a widespread lack of e-commerce awareness, which it is addressing in the interim.
PlanetPastel.com, the recently launched portal, offers information and services to users of Pastel accounting software. Basheera Khan takes a look at the commerce options and finds the site to be lacking in certain aspects.