Supply chains are the blood of your business - incredibly complex, yet vital to your success. This paper explores the relationship between partners and processes and the need to enable electronic data exchange with all your suppliers. Read this to learn about the limitations of traditional integration methods and new options that enable e-commerce. 

This report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing, finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought. 

Competition has never been so strong and retail organisations are finding they cannot afford to stand still. 

Explore new thinking on how to manage the increasing complexity of today's supply chains – and how leading companies are evolving their approach to encompass multitier business networks enabled by electronic data exchange. They are jettisoning traditional EDI for simpler, more affordable automation techniques. 

This short resource outlines a case study following Mar-Bal on their selection process and implementation of an improved ERP system and the benefits they experienced as a result. 

Nissen Chemitec America has utilized several different systems to manage enterprise operations but these systems weren’t designed to meet the specific needs of automotive injection molding suppliers. Nissen selected EnterpriseIQ because it meets manufacturing-specific functionality and automotive industry requirements in a single-database system. 

This case study provides insight into a business products company that needed to find a way to integrate their e-commerce strategy with their existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Learn how they were able to seamlessly manage their order statuses, histories, customer items, and more alongside their ERP software. 

Industry wide SOA rollouts have seen enterprises deploy critical supporting infrastructure around Web services security and Web services management. Forum Systems and Oracle Corporation "Secure SOA Infrastructure" is a market-leading solution that integrates software and hardware for mission critical SOA deployments. Find out more. 

This informative webcast discusses how to harness the power of social media and provides a demonstration of Alfresco's enterprise content management tool. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

This tip e-guide from SearchCRM.com features insight from Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for social customer relationship management (CRM). Read this now to learn what challenges are cropping up in CRM, how social media is affecting CRM strategies and what the future of social CRM looks like. 

This quarters figures compiled by jobadswatch.co.uk show that during the fourth quarter of2010 the IT jobs market for permanent staff being recruited by retail organisations is up by5.1%.The growth indemand for IT staff in this sector shows 44.5% more vacancies being advertised than ayear ago.