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We’ve pulled together research from leading analysts around the world to help you decide if managed B2B is the best solution for your company
May 2010
IDC research shows that many organizations invested years ago to automate how they interact and integrate with business network partners. Regardless, they are finding a need to reassess B2B integration to improve their processes. As enterprises reassess, there are several important factors that need to be taken into account to ensure that the best decision is made about the following:
- Whether it makes sense to change their existing B2B process
- Whether there is benefit in changing the location of where the process is run
- Whether they need to change vendors
This White Paper provides guidance and tools that will help guide B2B teams as they go through their reassessment.
June 2009
IDC demand-side research shows that enterprises are increasingly looking toward using outsourcing as a means of achieving business transformation. Leading drivers behind the need to transform business models include the ability to compete globally, drive innovation, ensure lowest costs, penetrate new markets, and collaborate more effectively. This paper answers questions posed by Sterling Commerce to Maureen Fleming, program director for IDC's Business Process Management and Middleware service, on behalf of Sterling's enterprise clients.
In second quarter 2009, IDC began working with a cross sample of Sterling Commerce Managed Services (SCMS) customers to determine the return on investment (ROI) following their shift to a managed services offering for B2B integration. This paper presents the results of the research and includes a case study.
December 2009
To deal with changing customer requirements and the need to support e-commerce initiatives around the globe, many organizations are turning to B2B managed services to augment their internal capabilities. This Report shares the drivers, benefits, and best practices for picking the right managed service provider for your B2B e-commerce strategy.
September 2009
Companies are rethinking their B2B strategies to reflect the dynamic and collaborative nature of their business. This short paper highlights the few common themes where companies are focusing their efforts and discusses the increasing interest in moving B2B integration responsibility to a managed service provider.
March 11, 2008
The business-to-business multienterprise integration research area covers a range of multienterprise B2B integration and interoperability trends and technology, which are increasingly important as multienterprise projects proliferate on the "edge" of internal integration projects.
March 19, 2009
European companies having to address B2B integration requirements must assess whether multienterprise B2B infrastructure vendors have sufficient resources and domain expertise to meet diverse and expanding country-specific project scope requirements. Multienterprise B2B infrastructure vendors have good opportunities to address a largely open market, as long as they manage to fit diversity into their offerings.
December 18, 2008
Companies frequently ask specific questions about the implementation of multienterprise projects to support e-commerce, service-oriented architecture, business process management and software as a service. Here, Gartner address these issues.
March 2009
Addressing technology imperatives of automation, security and compliance requires a comprehensive business strategy. Integrating seamless and flexible business systems maximizes global operational efficiency. Ken Vollmer (Principal Research Analyst, Forrester) discusses the link between an Enterprise Integration Strategy (EIS) and comprehensive integration solutions, while revealing new survey research results that show how enterprises in North America and Europe measure the value of an EIS. Read Ken's recommendations on using integrated technological advances to increase business innovation and enable higher employee productivity, shorter cycle times and lower inventory levels.
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