Companies from five industries converged on Atlanta to attend EC Directions 2001, an inter-industry forum on connecting trading communities through electronic commerce.
In an era of e-business, infrastructure is increasingly important to businesses and, with technology leaps, increasingly exciting, according to AMR Research.
In order for the construction industry to connect fragmented players and close the data loop, there is a need for industrywide standards for Internet technologies, according to Chip D'Angelo, vice president/business development for the McGraw-Hill Construction Information Group and spokesman for construction.com, an industry marketplace.
Today's customers are more inclined to use electronic contacts rather than more traditional methods, yet only 36% of these customers are satisfied with their Internet purchasing experiences.
ASA's Center for Advancing Technology held another in its series of Electronic Commerce Blue Ribbon Summits and covered topics such as the economics of e-commerce, extensible markup language, and e-commerce exchanges.
Unity Networking and WIT & Co. recently announced a strategic alliance to use Unity's surplus Web marketplace, WholesalerDirect.com. Unity has also partnered with Eclipse and Mincron Software Systems.
Informix Corp. announced that it would establish two independent operating companies - Informix Software for its database business and Informix Business Solutions for its e-commerce business.
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