Speakers at an Ernst & Young panel discussion concurred that dot-coms cannot be evaluated using the same formula as used for bricks-and-mortar companies.
Navision Software and Siebel Systems have announced a worldwide agreement to deliver e-business solutions that meet the needs of mid-sized companies.
Cognos says that according to the Hurwitz Group, pure HTML user interfaces are best suited for users responsible for e-business intelligence deployments in global organisations.
Microsoft has released a draft of its BizTalk Framework version 2.0. Redefined to be Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) compliant, it allows BizTalk XML documents to travel over a network in the form of SOAP messages.
The Internet Solution (IS) has introduced an outsourced firewall solution to assist organisations in conducting secure business over the Internet.
Global Technology Insurance, in conjunction with Global Technology Services (Glotec), will launch an Internet-enabled insurance system in September.
Nanoteq, part of the Comparex Holdings group of companies, has discarded much of its traditional focus on proprietary security solution development to become a value-added reseller in the secure e-business solution market.
Almost half of local retailers are in danger of missing the e-commerce wave because of backward IT systems, says Regan Atkins, sales and marketing manager at PC-POS.
Twenty software developers from Oracle went skydiving to celebrate the launch of Oracle`s Release 11 Financial software application.
NetActive, an integrated services provider and a premier consulting partner for SCO products, has added Tarantella, SCO's Web-enablement software, to its range of solutions.
IBM`s database offering, DB2 Universal Database version 7.1, has been released. It is designed for e-business, OLAP and data warehousing, and runs on anything from a PalmPilot to a NUMA server.
ProcureTrade, a joint venture between AST Group and McCarthy Online, hosted the launch of an e-procurement trading hub built on Infobank`s Intrade e-hub software.
At the Securities Industry Association`s Technology Management Conference this week in New York, SunGard, Intel and Microsoft announced a joint collaboration on 64-bit eProcessing solutions for the financial industry.