Are You Experienced?
By Lisa Yoon for CFO.com
Shelter-in-place may be a hot topic these days, but development-in-place could prove more valuable to corporate executives. read more...

Integrated Content Management
By Dmitri Tcherevik for EAI Journal
Companies are increasingly searching for solutions that integrate disparate content repositories and implement enterprise wide business processes. Existing solutions aimed at aggregating web pages or integrating applications are ill equipped for the purpose. Instead, a new type of middleware platform is required. read more...

Understanding Online Message Dissemination
By Sandeep Krishnamurthy for First Monday
Our goal in this paper was to analyze "send-this-story-to-a-friend" data. Encouraging consumers to send stories to friends is an application of viral marketing which envisions message dissemination through customer-to-customer communication rather than firm-to-customer communication. read more...

Accelerating Electronic Payment Processing
By Jason Salas for .NET Magazine
Our goal in this paper was to analyze "send-this-story-to-a-friend" data. Encouraging consumers to send stories to friends is an application of viral marketing which envisions message dissemination through customer-to-customer communication rather than firm-to-customer communication. read more...

P2P Payment Competition Picks Up Speed
By Ian Palmer for Computer Bits
This article looks at the future of person-to-person payment technology. read more...

Case Study: Silverline develops EID system to eliminate paper invoices
By Bob Paajanen for ServerWorld Magazine
This article provides an overview of Open Business Exchange's implementation of an electronic invoice delivery (EID) system from Silverline. read more...

The Progress of e-Payment
By Julie Murphree for iSource Business Magazine
So many companies pride themselves in the steps they've made toward automating their order cycles. However, many order cycles continue to be frustratingly punctuated with manual payment processes. But that's about to change. read more...

Digital Cash Payoff
By Evan I. Schwartz for Technology Review
PayPal's fraud-busting technology makes it easy for people to pay one another over the Internet-and may give credit card companies a run for their money. read more...

The xSP Revolution, Round 2: Separating Winners from Losers
By David Sovie and John Hanson for Agilebrain.com
Game over for Application Service Providers? Hardly. While spectacular flameouts dominate the industry buzz, many profitable businesses have already been created in network-centric computing. And the big wave of adoption and revenue growth lies ahead. The winners will focus on what the customer wants and is willing to pay for, not on the latest cool technology. Now, in a sequel to the author's research published a year ago, they discuss which business designs and which firms are likely to create value. read more...

Friends Or Foes?
By John Harney for Enterprise Systems Journal
Game over for Application Service Providers? Hardly. While spectacular flameouts dominate the industry buzz, many profitable businesses have already been created in network-centric computing. And the big wave of adoption and revenue growth lies ahead. The winners will focus on what the customer wants and is willing to pay for, not on the latest cool technology. Now, in a sequel to the author's research published a year ago, they discuss which business designs and which firms are likely to create value. read more...