E-Commerce
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follow Hubspan on TwittereCommerce Integration in the Cloud
A great article in a niche publication, Electrical Wholesaling magazine, featuring a fairly new customer of ours on the IBM-Hubspan joint solution, WebSpan. Mayer Electric Supply is using the WebSpan integration solution for eCommerce punchout and purchase order exchange with some of their most important customers. As the URL is not available, the full article text follows:
E-Commerce [...]
Solving the Catalog Hosting Challenge for eProcurement
Anyone who has been around the procurement block a few times knows that one of the first decisions you have to make when automating the buying process is who will host the product catalogs. Essentially, there are three options:
1. Catalogs will be hosted internally by your eProcurement system
2. Catalogs will be hosted by suppliers themselves
3. [...]
Integrating your eCommerce site – is it all hype?
According to a recent Gartner Inc report Hype Cycle for eCommerce, companies are investing more than ever before in eCommerce technologies and capabilities. Part of this is due to the current economic downturn, because companies need to increase revenue while simultaneously reducing the cost of sales. Also, business is increasingly being accomplished ”online”, requiring companies of all sizes to provide an optimized [...]
How to “Punchout” the Competition
If you’re relatively new to the world of business integration or if you’ve primarily been focused on technologies like EDI, you may have heard the term “Punchout” and wondered what it means. From a general perspective, punchout carries a variety of meanings, from ”punching out” a time clock at work to the punch-out of data on a computer to [...]


