Companies looking to increase their revenues from US e-commerce should target individuals who are currently not buying on the Internet, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).
Sagent SA, a provider of e-business intelligence solutions, says Centrus Real-Time, an XML-based information service, is available locally.
CommerceQuest SA says virtually every kind of company is looking to exploit the Internet by leveraging investments in existing infrastructures to connect to expanding partners, suppliers and customers worldwide.
Peregrine Systems, represented locally by CCH Enterprise Solutions, and Harbinger, a provider of business-to-business e-commerce delivery systems, have entered into a $2.1 billion e-business merger.
The Dotcoza project is beginning to attract more attention in mainstream media, resulting in floods of e-mail, tense doggy nerves and an online game in which players can attempt to free Dotcoza.
Sagent says eFinance, an online buying community, has selected Centrus Real-Time, Sagent's real-time information service, to enable the pre-qualification of customer credit applications.
Oracle has automated 4 000 field and call centre sales agents as part of its goal to save over $1 billion in operational expenses with the internal deployment of its own Internet sales applications.
The development of Internet business has caused the business-to-consumer and business-to-business markets to accelerate at unprecedented rates, says CommerceQuest SA.
SPL, local MicroStrategy distributor, says MicroStrategy 6, a personalised intelligence delivery platform, is now available.
Dimension Data (DiData) has won a contract worth $7 million to build an e-commerce infrastructure for Chunghwa Telecom, a Taiwanese-owned telecommunications service provider.
McCarthy On-Line and the AST group have launched Procuretrade, a joint venture to offer a business-to-business hosted procurement solution and electronic hub.
Three-D Computer Services, an MB Worksoft company, is targeting the e-commerce market by providing infrastructure services to customers through its recently formed alliances with Novell and IBM.
Emprise, a German ERP solutions provider, has expanded into SA with the acquisition of a majority share of the EDCO Group, a supplier of e-business solutions and services with headquarters in Pretoria and the US.