Increasingly, Fortune 500 enterprises are turning to e-business software to enable real-time transactions and data exchange. This hot sector is crowded with software firms, each vying to peddle integrated suites for supply chain management, CRM, e-procurement, fulfillment and logistics. How can an e...
In some ways, it is easier than ever to build an e-commerce site. As technology has matured, its price has fallen. However, the growing need to integrate a site's business operations -- such as ordering, sales and call center functions -- has raised the bar, even as the number of e-commerce technolo...
In the last two years, BroadVision's revenues have collapsed, and its market cap has shrunk. Even after a year of aggressive cost cutting, the company's third-quarter results showed continuing losses. That red ink has spurred speculation that BroadVision could run out of money before it executes its...
Microsoft is slated to announce the release of its .NET Content Management Server 2002 at the annual Microsoft Exchange Conference in Anaheim, California. The new software will let developers more rapidly publish content to the Web directly from Microsoft Word, according to the company. In addition,...
Enterprise cannot swing an optical mouse these days without hitting a Microsoft product. But despite the software giant's aggressive posturing, enterprise is hardly at its mercy when developing a blueprint for e-commerce. In fact, it is easy to avoid Microsoft altogether, Giga Information Group a...
Outdated product specifications, merchandising messages or other online content are surefire recipes for customer alienation. But many Internet companies cannot afford the resources needed to constantly purge their sites of past-due elements. "The task of updating content is high work and small r...
Linux distributor Red Hat is set to launch a new e-commerce suite built on an open-source platform, the company told the E-Commerce Times on Friday. The new product is aimed at mid-size businesses that want to expand their e-commerce platform to support more transactions, enable more complex me...
Microsoft announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to purchase privately held e-business software company NCompass Labs, reportedly for US$36 million. NCompass Labs' flagship product is NCompass Resolution, a software package that Microsoft said allows companies to deploy personalized ...
MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) was at US$5.44 early Thursday, up 47 cents, after the Internet music provider reported a smaller loss for the fourth quarter ended December 31st. MP3.com chief executive officer Michael Robertson said the company is poised for growth, adding that "as we move into 2001, we...
CacheFlow, Inc. (Nasdaq: CFLO) was down US$2.50 at $15.50 in morning trading Thursday after the company said revenue and operating results for the third quarter ended January 31st will be below previous expectations. Revenue will likely total $20 million to $21 million, the Sunnyvale, California-bas...
The Internet landscape will soon be populated by more women than ever before, but will be littered with even more dot-com casualties, according to a new report from the Yankee Group. The Boston, Massachusetts-based consulting firm also believes that 2001 will see more government regulations to...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced Thursday it has formed a strategic alliance with e-business software and service provider Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq: VIGN) in an effort to meet growing e-marketplace demands in the dot-com, retail and financial sectors
IBM and Internet service provider Conxion Corporation announced today that 13 dot-com companies have joined the first class of its joint incubator program scheduled for launch on November 16th
Software giant Oracle Corp. has formed a venture fund of $100 million (US$) to help companies develop e-commerce products and services, using Oracle8iTM software. This could be a golden opportunity for e-commerce software and service developers who need outside investment and marketing muscle to mov...
Benefits callers and agents by reducing frustration and boosting productivity.
Fair if agents can also remove callers' accents.
Speech altering is unnatural, deceptive, and could fuel bias.
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