I have not blogged in a while, 29 days to be exact. I think it is fair to say I have been busy over the last few months. I (@TheSaaSGuy) have not been tweeting either !
I was busy in the design, development, and launch of QLogitek’s new English and French websites. The site was launched on May 29 thanks to the efforts of QL’s development team and ops team. The design was done by a team from India, Impinge Solutions and the CMS development was done by a team from Barrie, Ontario, Pavliks.
At the end of evaluating numerous CMSs (Joomla, MovableType, Drupal, and others) we settled on Sitefinity, from Telerik. I am very happy with our choice, especially because as a .net shop our dev team is able to work on creating user controls (more on this later). Before finishing this post I would like to say we have done really with all search engine related goals ( more on this in the next post).
I have been very busy over the last few weeks working on managing the design, development, and migration of QLogitek’s new corporate website. Check it out.
I hope to blog more frequently. In the mean while, check this video out….I think sales folks will especially resonate with this.
Aberdeen recently published a research report on Five steps to Gaining Visibility and Control that QLogitek was proud to underwrite. According to the report, Best-in-Class companies took the following five steps to gain visibility and control in their multi-enterprise supply chains viz-a-viz their peer group. The 5 steps to visibility & control are:
B2B integration
Data management
Process collaboration
Network intelligence
Look beyond ERP
Here I focus on the first of the above five steps and highlight the importance of using IaaS for B2B Integration.
According to Aberdeen the most important step an organization can undertake is to integrate its B2B processes. They rightly recognize that EDI is probably not the most effective tool for B2B integration given the cost and time commitment needed.
I agree with their assessment and think organizations should consider Integration-as-a-Service (IaaS) for their B2B integration instead of experimenting with the traditional integration tools. Compared to traditional approach to B2B integration IaaS has few key benefits such as:
shorter time
lower capital investment, especially in this milieu when it is key to maintain cash-flow
lower operating cost
greater flexibility
In your experience what B2B process are easiest to integrate with internal systems?
