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Alliance Aims To Simplify IT Buying For Customers
Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Veritas Software Certify E-Business Applications.

Amazon.com Aims To Provide Everything To Everyone
Expanded auction capabilities will let customers buy with one click.

Apps Aid In E-Business Management
NetScout's nGenius tools gather data on Web traffic, provide portal to information.

NCR Tries To Cash In On E-Commerce With Teradata
Upgrade of data-warehousing products is response to demand for cutting-edge technology.

CheckFree Rules The World Of Online Bill Paying
But as the market for electronic bill payment heats up, so could the competition.

Hospitality Industry Joins The E-Marketplace Push
Hyatt and Marriott to roll out network for operating supplies, food, and beverages.

Vendor Analysis: Vendors React To The Internet Economy
BMC Software, Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, and Tivoli Systems brace for the future.

Worldwide E-Commerce: It's More Than A Web Site
U.S. companies seeking to do business overseas must use different strategies.

Bills For The 21st Century
Online marketplaces may help to speed transactions, but without new ways to pay, their promise is only half-fulfilled .

Auto Dealers Come To Terms With The Web
E-commerce may speed shrinkage in dealerships, but embracing the Net can have its rewards.

EDS Pushes Into E-Business Services With Portal
Vendor wants to help customers equip supply chains for the Web, integrate with partners.

CA=E-Biz?
Systems-management vendor says it's ready to provide a complete strategy for E-business.

Buying Power
As online marketplaces proliferate, businesses need to move fast to get E-procurement systems up and running. Software and services vendors can help speed the process.

E-Market Connections
Lack of application integration is limiting the benefits of E-markets, but vendors are addressing the problem.

Credit-Card Companies Experiment With Marketplaces
American Express, Visa, and Mastercard plan enhanced services to fend off new rivals.

The Big Squeeze
In suppliers' rush to sell directly to consumers over the Web, sales agents, distributors, and other channel partners worry that they'll be pushed out of the picture.

Online Marketplaces: Construction Boom
Web exchange operators are building marketplaces at a frantic pace.

The ABCs Of E-Business
E-transformation is forcing IT and business managers to relearn their roles.

Xuma Targets Dot-Com Startups
Three new products aim to help small companies compete in E-commerce.

Lands' End Looks Beyond Consumers
Apparel retailer launches three-pronged business-to-business E-commerce effort.

E-Services Scramble
Vendors, including a new Microsoft-Andersen Consulting partnership, race to grab a share of the growing market for E-business systems.

GEIS Splits To Focus On E-Business Services
Forms two companies and introduces products to aid small and midsize businesses on the Web.

New Market Makers
Technology vendors are trying to position themselves as the operators of the infrastructure for E-business.

Mind Your Business
Companies rethink their privacy policies as public concern grows.

Pricing Shakeout
The Internet and E-business are reshaping IT purchasing.

Seeking The Deeper Path To E-Success
Companies that use a combination of E-business best practices--and value commitment as much as investment--are realizing returns in terms of more customes, lower costs, and market creation.

Sabre To Open Internet Marketplace For Travel Providers
Exchange will allow online procurement by 47,000 travel agencies.

Sneak Preview: Third Time Proves To Be the Charm for IBM's WebSphere
IBM's WebSphere is a slick e-business-ready Web application server.

E-Markets Are Expanding
Online exchanges add more services and interconnections.

Tools Aim To Help E-Businesses Improve Service
Blue Martini lets companies analyze data; Evity helps businesses understand user experience.

Web-Site Design: The Art Of E-Biz
The Good--And Not Good Enough--Of Web-site Design.

Firmbuy Offers Hosted Procurement Site
Startup is first ASP to use Sun-Netscape E-commerce applications.

Business Booms For Specialized Web Marketplaces
Land, water, and bartering become the latest ventures in e-commerce.

Top of the Stack: The Content-Delivery Edge
Contributing editor David Willis discusses content delivery networks (CDNs) as a possible solution for alleviating the Internet's traffic problem. Read his latest column.

BMC Boosts Management Offerings To Aid E-Business
Products will help databases handle system failures more efficiently.

Amid Cold, Sun Shines
Sun is working hard to remain a leader in E-business.

Rapid-Fire IT Infrastructure
E-business is causing new blueprints to be drawn for IT architectures.

Putting The "E" Back In Business
It's time to realize that all business will soon be online.

Marketplace Aims To Reshape Retail
Market4Retail.com could cut buyers' travel, making buying and selling more efficient.

United Overhauls Web Site, Plans Dot-Com Subsidiary
Airline's E-Commerce Subsidiary plans to pursue major partnering effort.

Cyclone Connects Legacy And E-Commerce Systems
Trading Engine lets businesses accommodate customers' existing trading systems.

Health-Care Replenishment Online
Marketplace for pharmaceutical wholesalers and retailers is in the works.

Manufacturer Invests In E-Business Expertise
Textron's $100m investment in safeguard scientifics buys access to technology, consultants.

Wal-Mart Steps Up Online Presence
Expanded Web store features more products and new personalization service.

E-Business At Forefront Of Offerings For New Year
Major vendors plan products to strengthen E-business by facilitating communications and sharing data.

Companies Partner On High-Tech Web Marketplace
Compaq, HP, and i2 technologies to develop an online exchange for the electronics industry.

Companies Partner On High-Tech Web Marketplace
Compaq, HP, and i2 technologies to develop an online exchange for the electronics industry.

Getting Personal
Advanced analytics can help E-businesses land customers.

Online Procurement Meets E-Business Purchasing
Peregrine will link expanded management suite to IT vendors' online catalogs.

Spectrum's Online-Billing Network Grows
Eleven Banks join forces to compete with others offering bill payment and presentment.

E-Business 100
Innovative users of Internet tools take charge of the new economy.

E-Transformation
It's no longer a question of whether to become an E-business, but how to do so--and the best Web models are emerging.

Head Of The Chain
Supply-chain market leader i2 Technologies is making a push into E-business.

Modeling Aid
AnswerThink helps transformations.

Customized E-Business
Startup closes the gap between ERP, finished products.

Push For Performance
Vendors are rushing to fill the need for tools that let businesses assess Web-site performance and understand the behavior of their online customers.

Billing's Unfulfilled Potential
Consumers lack incentives and vendors wrestle with interoperability as online billing struggles.

Need For Speed Drives Boom In E-Business Services
Big companies, niche players both have roles in growing market.

E-Commerce Counts On Servers
Choosing the right commerce-server vendor is a critical decision.

E-Transformation
The Internet is triggering more profound change than anything that has come before it.

E-Business Choices
InformationWeek looks at the leading vendors in five key markets to help IT managers choose technology partners and products for the long haul.

Coping With An E-Business Emergency
The high-stakes battle for online customers and market share has turned crisis management into a top priority.

Online Billing Gets A Boost
Yahoo to ease into offering the service.

Bank Swaps Stakes In Web Lenders
Bank of America buys into E-Loan.

Wells Fargo Provides Procurement
Bank to offer Web buying for business customers.

Online Ordering
Hologix software helps industries use E-commerce for attribute-based products.

Compaq Maps Rebound After 2Q Losses
More layoffs coming, but vendor says it has strong plan to focus on E-business.

E-Business: What's The Model?
While the Internet clock ticks, many companies still struggle to find the best strategy.

Chain Of E-vents
Supply-chain vendors are introducing products in response to growing demand for technologies that support the flow of goods in E-business.

Procurement Pays Off
Companies are finding that procurement software comes with a quick ROI.

Informix Reveals Key Database Upgrade
IIF.2000 is part of a plan to supply a wide range of E-commerce technology.

E-Commerce Distribution Takes New Approach
Webvan grocery-center deal with Bechtel could reshape role of infrastructure.

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