Ebusiness Basics Business today must move with speed, efficiency and flexibility in response to ever changing market conditions. Companies must streamline and automate their mission-critical core processes, tying them seamlessly with internal and external business systems. Achieving enterprise flexibility and agility is a key enabler for ongoing success. The global transition to an ebusiness model is having a profound impact on organizations, with internal and external connectivity increasingly becoming one continuum. The effect is not only on how organizations conduct business with their customers, partners, suppliers, distributors and exchanges, but also how they must operate their businesses internally.
Business information flows through a wider range of systems than ever before.
Moreover, the nature of ebusiness itself is expanding in scope, further compounding the rate at which business transformation takes place. Existing information technology systems are now being optimized, and in some instances replaced, to facilitate both internal and external business collaboration. This was never before possible. Leading companies embracing these capabilities are realizing unprecedented efficiencies and opportunities, as they define new markets and new revenue opportunities. They are delivering new levels of customer satisfaction and receiving increased customer loyalty.