E-commerce guide: Sold on IT?
13 September 2012
ERP, ASP, XML . . . companies seeking to move procurement online face a daunting array of acronyms. Nick Langley explores some of the key technology issues that need to be addressed
Purchasing over the Internet remains more of a potential than a reality. Innate conservatism and caution may be among the causes, but the bewildering range of technologies on offer is partly to blame.
As for standards controlling purchasing transactions over the Internet, the industry has far too many of them, from independent global organisations such as the...