Notice it even crosses industry boundaries to include not just book sellers, but computer sellers, service firms, utilities and any B2C or B2B business. Using Technology to Enable Business Integration and Speed To deliver business integration and speed requires a technology approach based on an infrastructure that enables rapid innovation and change. It is essential to deliver common services and capabilities across the network and beyond the enterprise. Informational expenditures are those systems that deliver increased control of information that is, better information that is better integrated and improves the quality of the information delivered. Strategic investment includes systems that deliver critical business results, such as increased sales, competitive advantage, innovative services and marketing positioning.
Transactional expenditures are for systems that cut costs and increase throughput.
The Promise of eBusiness eBusiness is expected to increase profitability, raise productivity, create competitive advantage, and support innovative business practices in Internet time. In order to embrace the paradigm shift of the new eBusiness design and reap the expected benefits, corporations need to align themselves organizationally to take full advantage of the transformation. Early adopters of eBusiness transformation have built individual solutions in isolation from corporate strategy, from other corporate applications, and from the corporation s core business processes. The result has been a disparate, disconnected series of information silos. This phenomenon requires a flexible and adaptable set of infrastructure services for managing identity, security and the surrounding policies that define business relationships.