e-Business Advisor articles from October 1998

e-Business Advisor archives from October 1998

Global e-commerce explodes. (Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
October 1, 1998... Will you thrive, survive, or dive? E-commerce is coming to a refrigerator near you. You can buy groceries over the Internet now (though delivery is by more conventional means), along with cars, books, clothes, airplane and movie tickets......

Web trends. (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... @plan, a research provider of consumer behavior on the Web, reports that the segment of active Web users over 55, now numbering 4.3 million, is making a significant impact on e-commerce. Active Web users who are over the age of 55 facts...

XML in business. (XML/EDI Group) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... XML/EDI Group, an authority on the use of XML in business-to-business exchanges, is spearheading a project to set guidelines on defining industry-wide rules for uses of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) in business transactions. They made...

IBM acquisition. (Integrated Technology Inc's KnowledgeX technology)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 1998... IBM has acquired Integrated Technology, Inc.'s KnowledgeX technology, a software solution that helps companies make informed business decisions by better harvesting, analyzing, and sharing data. KnowledgeX leverages all types of data, whether...

Turnkey ESD solutions. (NetSales will use Preview Systems' ZipLock ESD System) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... Preview Systems and NetSales announced that NetSales, one of the largest ESD and EC distributors, will buy and integrate Preview System ZipLock ESD System to ESD-enable NetSales' two-tier distribution channel. NetSales will ESD-enable their...

HP and Canadian Bank join forces. (a joint venture called INTRIA-HP) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... Hewlett-Packard and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce launched an electronic commerce company hoping to sell, over the next four years, C$1.5 billion in computer services. The new company, INTRIA-HP will offer computer services to other...

Single sign-on for NDS. (Novell, Entrust Technologies) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... Novell and Entrust Technologies announced a strategic agreement to combine their technologies to provide network users with single sign-on for NDS, Entrust's PKI software, and Entrust-ready applications. With the agreement, Entrust PKI will be...

Certicom acquisition. (Consensus Development Corp) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... Certicom Corporation acquired Consensus Development Corporation in a merger transaction. The acquisition gives application developers and device manufacturers efficient public key solutions, as well as tools necessary to deploy secure...

Web storefronts. (Information Builders allies with The Vision Factory) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... Information Builders and The Vision Factory have formed an alliance that includes integration of The Vision Factory's Cat@log, an open storefront creation and management suite, with Information Builders' Enterprise Data Access (EDA)...

Payment technology. (Bottomline Technologies, Portable Software Corp) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... Bottomline Technologies, provider of payment management solutions, announced a co-marketing agreement with Portable Software Corporation, producer of travel expense automation software. The agreement gives customers the ability to integrate...

Electronic bill presentment. (TriSense Software, Wausau Financial Systems) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... TriSense Software and Wausau Financial Systems (WFS) formed a strategic alliance to provide TriSense Software's electronic bill presentment and payment solution, PaySense, to WFS customers. This lets WFS offer its clients strategic new...

EDI partnership. (TranSettlements Network Services, Randtec) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... TranSettlements Network Services, a provider of air and motor freight EDI, partnered with Randtec, a provider of yard and cross-dock management systems, to offer EDI services to yard and cross-dock systems. The agreement couples Randtec's...

Internet billing software. (Just in Time Solutions) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... Just in Time Solutions, a provider of open Internet billing software, has secured its first round of financing totaling US$5 million. The funding lets Just in Time enhance its product development, sales, and marketing efforts to meet the...

E-business initiative. (Pioneer-Standard Electronics, Dickens Data Systems) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... In conjunction with IBM's business strategy, Pioneer-Standard Electronics announced that Dickens Data Systems, the IBM distribution arm of KeyLink Systems, a Pioneer-Standard company, adopted a new marketing initiative. A solutions team has...

Network Solutions partner program. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... Network Solutions, Inc. signed eight Asian companies, including leading telecommunications companies in the region, to its International Premier Domain Registration Services partner program. The Asian companies join the six major Scandinavian...

Multinational IP service.(Infonet Services Corp, Radiografica Costarricense SA) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... Infonet Services Corporation announced a bilateral agreement with Radiografica Costarricense S.A. (RACSA) to provide frame relay interconnections between RACSA's domestic frame relay network RACSANET and Infonet's World Network. This agreement...

Cable & Wireless acquisition.(will acquire MCI's US Internet communications business) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... Cable & Wireless will acquire MCI's US Internet communications business for US$1.75 billion in cash. The deal enhances Cable & Wireless' position in the U.S. Internet market, which is expected to grow at overall rates of between 50 and 100...

Foreign exchange trading. (IMA, CoreLAN Communications Inc) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1998... IMA and CoreLAN Communications, Inc. developed an improved foreign exchange service for Thomas Cook that allows foreign exchange trading over the Internet. Thomas Cook's Web site, http://www.fx4business.com/, and significantly improved...

Increase the ROI from your intranet. (return on investment) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
October 1, 1998... Establish a business case for your Intranet. Intranets help people communicate and work together more efficiently--they allow for the sharing of information in a new and better way. But certain factors, such as corporate culture, training,...

Protecting your company's trademarks for global E-commerce. (Industry Trend or Event)
October 1, 1998... Protect your trademark assets on a global scale. Online commerce brings the world to your company's doorstep. But taking the leap into global cyberspace, with its vast horizon of sales and trading partner opportunities, means facing the fact...

Ask Advisor. (Question and Answer)
October 1, 1998... XML for E-Business * XML * CDF technology * Web publishing Q: I'm responsible for the technical direction for my company and I'd like your opinion of the best new technology for developing e-commerce applications, and why?...

Access your data anywhere, anytime. (deploying databases on notebook computers as an e-business strategy) (includes a "Product And Company Information" table) (Technology Information)(Cover Story)
October 1, 1998... Deploying databases on notebook computers is a powerful The competitive benefits of a mobile work force are driving the adoption of mobile computing. Workers can be at remote locations--branch offices, client sites, airports, their homes, or...

Create database applications for the PalmPilot. (SoftMagic's Satellite Forms 2.0 application development software) (includes related article about 3Com's PalmPilot hand-held computer) (Product Information)
October 1, 1998... SoftMagic Satellite 2.0 Forms helps you do e-business in the palm of your hand. PCs are great for gathering and manipulating information, but they're also cumbersome. It's difficult, for instance, to take a laptop computer into a car parts...

Tools for handheld computing. (includes product-comparison tables for 3Com Palm Computing products and for Microsoft Windows CE products)(Buyers Guide)
October 1, 1998... When it comes to portable computing, size matters--sometimes it matters a lot! Even the smallest laptop/notebook requires a good-size, stable platform as a working area. But, when you're truly mobile, your computer needs to fit in your pocket...

Users find new value in EDI. (electronic data interchange) (Industry Trend or Event)
October 1, 1998... Y2K projects boost EDI's future prospects; XML is key as potential enabler. As an expert in e-business and electronic commerce technology, you've undoubtedly been involved in corporate discussions about electronic data interchange (EDI). If...

OBI: up close and personal. (Weyman Watson, Douglas Bailey) (Open Buying on the Internet) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Interview)
October 1, 1998... BOC Gases, a member of the OBI Consortium, reports from the trenches on the progress of and issues facing OBI. To shed some light on the real-life dealings of the Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) Consortium and the progress of the OBI...

OBI goes real-time. (Open Buying on the Internet's Action Showcase, Internet Commerce Expo, Sep 23-25, 1998, Los Angeles) (Industry Trend or Event)
October 1, 1998... The OBI Action Showcase brings buyers and sellers together with working, interoperable e-commerce solutions. Sixteen thousand people are expected to descend upon the Internet Commerce Expo (ICE) in Los Angeles from September 23-25, 1998 to...

Provide dynamic Web content with Java servlets. (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
October 1, 1998... An e-business application should be interactive, dynamic, and fast. Server-side Java is the key. A Web application must be dynamic to provide new value to users each time they use it. A dynamic Web application interacts with users to lead...

Confidentiality, authentication, and integrity for E-mail. (Network Associates' PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.5 and PGP Business Security Suite 5.5 encryption software) (includes related article on alternatives to PGP) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 1, 1998... PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.5 and PGP Business Security Suite 5.5 put encryption a click away. Most e-mail is business related and can contain information of a critical nature. Sure, an e-mail to the head office advising them that you're...

Security solutions. (Question and Answer)
October 1, 1998... Virtual Private Networks Q: Our company has five offices spread over New York state. Up until now, we've used couriers and, more recently, PGP e-mail to send documents back and forth. We're currently considering networking the offices to make...

Web commerce or bust: United Airlines presents a good example of a bad e-commerce site. (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)
October 1, 1998... United Airlines presents a good example of a bad e-commerce site. An effective e-commerce Web site must offer something the marketplace wants, and provide it in a satisfactory way. Most people visit an airline's site to get flight...

Advisor Tips.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 1998... Indented Margins Update * HTML Your tip on indented margins in the August 1998 issue omitted the best solution, for this, one that causes true indentation (on the left side only) without using bullets. Bracket the text block with...

e-biz buzz. (electronic commerce) (News Briefs)
October 1, 1998... Y2K good, bad, and ugly. The good: The Securities Industry Association ran a four-day test simulating trading on and around the year 2000. Test participants, including the New York Stock Exchange, NasDaq Market, and Depository Trust sent mock...