B2B Future or How to make things less complex August 30, 2007
Posted by mukundmohan in News.trackback
Notice I did not say make things “simple”, just less complex. Currently all I hear from our customers is B2B Ecommerce is complex. There are too many standards (notice the comment on Jon’s post), too many technologies, multiple means of communication VAN, AS/2, AS/3, Secure FTP and way too many points of failure.
Too many points of failure = too many failures.
If we step back a bit to understand why companies actually integrate their systems together, its to ensure that you can have automated transactions. No humans touching it, means no errors. No errors means reduced cost of doing business.
So the complexity comes in when there are multiple segments of customers and suppliers (by size for example) and you have to support them all. A large billion $ customer might want direct ERP to ERP integration, but a smaller vendor might just want email or fax (yes, they are still around).
So what’s your idea to make B2B less complex?
Let us know and we’ll feature you as a comment winner of the week at our blog.
The reason I got this post out is because Robert has a video on the “The Blog of the Future“.
P.S. the blog of the future exists Robert, its called Google Reader. People will STOP going to blogs except for the first time, and after that depending on if they like it (they will subscribe) and if not (ignore it). I see that happening with our blog already. Our pageviews may be down, but our readership is up.
