Think Twice Before Outsourcing Your B2B Integration

If you’re thinking about outsourcing B2B integration and other technology functions, you might want to think again: A survey by sourcing consultancy Aslbridge revealed a growing level of dissatisfaction with IT outsourcing contracts.

The survey, which queried senior IT leaders in the UK, Switzerland, Holland and the Nordics, revealed 76 percent of IT leaders are considering renegotiating or re-tendering two or more of their outsource contracts.

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The Three Building Blocks of Supply Chain Optimization

Whether you’re in the executive suite or managing operations, there’s a lot of buzz these days about analytics: Advanced analytics, real-time analytics, Big Data analytics.

It can all sound complex and overwhelming. But really, when it comes down to it, analytics comes down to data: Collecting it, analyzing it and using it to make decisions.

When you strip away all the hype, there are basically three types of analytics:

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Reader’s Respond: Mobile Tech Top Trend Impacting B2B Relationships

Mobile technology is the trend most impacting B2B relationships, according to the results of April’s B2B.com poll.

Thirty-six percent of respondents ranked mobile as a having an impact above social technologies, cloud and Big Data — all of which are hot technology trends in the wider enterprise IT space.

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5 Reasons to complement B2B Infrastructure with Managed File Transfer (MFT)

B2B Gateways provide crucial business-to-business integration by enabling electronic data exchange of documents between two companies. They support a variety of protocols such as FTP, AS2 etc. and document standards like EDI and XML. B2B Gateways have become de-facto standard for B2B Integration and every mid to large size organization owns at least one.

Managed File Transfer (MFT) products on the other hand provide a similar functionality but are geared towards file exchanges and do not provide any document translation. Complementing a B2B Gateway infrastructure with a Managed File Transfer (MFT) infrastructure can provide significant benefits to any organization.

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