Reengineering Business for Success in the Internet Age : Business-to-Business E-commerce Strategies

This CTR report provides critical information to formulate business-to-business (B2B) strategies and examines the applications for implementing them. It discusses application servers and XML tools as they relate to B2B e-commerce application development and explores how XML facilitates automatic data interchange, its relationship to EDI, ongoing efforts to meld EDI and XML, and the future directions of these technologies. "Reengineering Business for Success in the Internet Age: Business-to-Business E-commerce Strategies" discusses how organizations are managing B2B security. Public key encryption and public key infrastructures (PKIs) are being widely used becuase they offer several benefits, including strong authentication that is nearly transparent to the user, digital signatures that are more secure than physical signatures, and prevention of tampering with information in transit. CTR's new report helps IT managers develop a leading edge in B2B e-commerce applications, enabling their organizations to gain competitive advantage by building a sustainable infrastructure that leverages the past, takes action in the present, and is flexible enough to succeed in the future.