Management Briefings

• Market Overview | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
  Tracey Caldwell assesses how far UK companies have got in undertaking internet technology-based collaborative commerce, and the benefits and difficulties of doing this.

• Cost Cutting | Part 2
  How can companies use web technology to drive cost out of their supply chain? META Group’s Enrico Camerinelli reports.

• Globalisation | Part 2 | Part 3
  The theory of e-business is that even small companies can set up a website to instantly access a global customer base. But things aren’t quite that simple, says IDC’s Mikael Arnbjerg.

• Portals | Part 2
  Chris Champion looks at the role of portals in developing second-generation websites.

• Standards | Part 2 | Part 3
  Stuart Campbell shows how e-business XML standards are replacing EDI as the means for supply chain partners to collaborate.

• Management Issues | Part 2
  One key trend in e-business is web applications management, says Nick Youell.

• Market News | Part 2
  An update on events in the IT services world.

• Security Issues | Part 2
  How can companies safely share data via email? Joseph Steinberg outlines the options.