Once established, these electronic commerce solutions enable all players to compete, reduce overall expenses and decrease time to market. Membership in CompTIA and participation in the task force provides participants with a comprehensive forum for positive impact industry wide. The European chapter of the CompTIA Electronic Commerce Task Force held its 1999 kickoff meeting in Dublin, Ireland, hosted by Microsoft. There was a large turnout, with over 45 participants including members from Compaq, Computacenter, Computer 2000, HP, IBM, Ingram-Micro, Lotus, and more. Objectives for 1999 Objectives for 1999 were established.
Significant work is required to streamline and standardize future implementations industry-wide.
EDI should be reviewed and recommendations established. Members expressed particular concern for satisfying the needs of the middle market players, to streamline processes and reduce costs. The task force would like to continue and build upon the accomplishments made in 1998, including the upgrade of the purchase order transaction to the current levels. It was decided that a sub-group would be formed to assess these other groups and how CompTIA can build upon work that may have already been accomplished. The US chapter of the CompTIA Electronic Commerce task force has established a steering committee of member executives to validate, substantiate and back the priorities for US participants.