The other third is made up of portals and infrastructure, such as ISPs, ASPs, and designers.
Markets are increasingly global.
A similar two in five also rely on the Net for business management support to knit together far-flung operations and collaborative partnerships. The additional organizational capacity derived from instantaneous global communication flattens organizational structures and speeds up real-time decision making and information flow. The results show up in profitability across the organization rather than profitability due to Internet presence, a measure not picked up in many studies. While nearly half the Web sites in North America and the Asia-Pacific region cater to consumers, only 25 percent of European sites and one in three in other regions do. The likelihood that a Web business will become profitable, however, increases dramatically with experience.