Other B2B/P2P Press

Business, B2B, Collaborative Commerce

Other excellent B2B/P2P News Articles:

B2B Evolution and Modes of Exchange paper unveiled - December 10; other stories linked to this paper http://www.trafficworld.com/techcenter/news/ecomm7.html, http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/articles.cfm?articleid=466&catid=14

B2B Exchanges fail to deliver - November 29

B2B Still to fulfill promise - November 29

YAHOO! Xbox is destined for more than games - November 29

UDDI version 3 promises to link web services - November 26

The Networked Supply Chain: Effective integration of systems and solutions—both internal and external—is the key to adding value in the interconnected supply chain. This is what P2P will get you to! - November 15

e-Markets: Back Again - November 15

Covisint pledges profit and IPO to come... But lets think about this for a second. Ford buys toilet rolls on Covisint and uses them as a hosting service for their private exchange. Smaller vendors and competitors are doing direct material acquisition, that is for sure - but they have fallen way short of expectations. I wonder... - November 12

From platform to process - November 1

Web Marketplaces that work- November; all about what is private and public right they way down to the inclusion of the industry group hug!

P2P goes Corporate: Groove to roll out Servers - October 26

Do not forsake your trusted suppliers; You cannot build trust through a trading exchange, and trust is essential to business - October 25

Integrating Trading Partners - October 25

Views differ on whether B2B exchanges viable - October 24

Vision for next generation chemical company - October 24; Not sure I could put this any better: B2B Insights for the Chemical Industry by CSC. "The next generation of e-business will be defined by unprecedented levels of networking among companies, and will be powered by shared business processes. There is no place where this observation has more relevance than for the companies that make up the chemical industry. This is an industry in transition, defined by its complex global supply chain, multi-organization product-development process, and economic environment where access to information is now rivaling the ownership of physical assets as the source of sustainable competitive advantage." I have have been talking about "shared business processes" for a long time now. This is where I get off as it related to "sharing files" (Napster) and "sharing resources" (Seti@home) that are both P2P plays. Add to the mix the concept of massively networked, self-organizing networks (value chains), you get a transformed industry. This is bigger than just the Chemicals industry!

Ahead of the curve - October 23; fascinating paper that exposes the real Microsoft strategy; maybe a "lite" Groove will get into the home PC platform (Win 9x+) while Sun is looking the other way! And if Groove or some level of P2P IM on the scale of Groove that can add documents and pictures gets in, .Net will have won half the battle!

P2P Content Delivery Startup lands 12 Trial Customers - October 18

Retail, CPG Markets need suppliers - October 16

Post-Napster File Sharing on the Rise - October 10...see my comments

Interoperability Across e-Markets - October 1

WWRE finalizes UDEX agreement - September 19

P2P Crowd control - September 17

Web Services, P2P Style (Flamenco Networks) - September 17

Benefits of P2P Architecture - September 10

Web Services, P2P style - September 7

Cause and Effect - September 6; Web Services coming to a location near you...soon

Catch of the Day: The Peasants are revolting - September 6

Catch of the Day: Peer-to-Peer Pressure - August 31

Ford Supply Net moving to Covisint - August 30; So what? Read the whole story and you get to see that this is nothing more than a glorified outsourcing deal. Ford is NOT using Covisint for their strategic business processes; they are using their own private network simply hosted on the Covisint platform. It sure is good news for Covisint, but not the see-change some might have hoped for. This is being called a "virtual private exchange". See Delboy's Comment here!

P2P Computing in the Enterprise - August 27th

Driving Collaboration - August 24th; when asked, "how does Covisint provide competitive advantage,?" the CTO dances nicely but fails to give any hard facts. Duh. See Delboy's Comment here!

Should the Internet be taxed? - August 22

GM spends $98BN Via Covisint - August 21; great news (the only real) that suggests that GM cannot compete with "level-setting" Covisint and therefore has to use it for some limited direct material procurement; this means that smaller competitors can use the same platform and begin to limit the lever that price has on competitive differentiation

P2P seeks its killer app - August 10; introduction of XRM, eXtended Relationship Management

Collaborate With the Potential Enemy: Harness customers' interests or they'll find a solution without you - August 10; talks about self organizing systems and groups (like your customers?) and they exploit the emergent properties of the net

B2B marketplaces can learn a lot from P2P - August 7th; awesome article, after my own heart!

P2P: Proceed with caution - August 7th

P2P Goes to Work: Peer to Peer will have its place in business but faces major obstacles - August 3rd

Let's Keep this Private - July 30th - the benefits of B2B Collaboration can be found behind closed doors!

The Trust Imperative - July 30th

Mantra of Collaboration: Trust, But Verify - July 30th

Seeing the e-Vantage - July 27th

OpenWebs Peer-enables Mueller Tire - July 25th

The case for Private Trading Exchanges - July 23rd

OpenWebs acquires Blue Tiger - July 18th

Empower your customers - the new Driving Forces in the Real New Economy - July 16th

Peer to Peer is here - July 12th

Charting the course for e-business - July 9th; Dana Corp, active member of Covisint, build own (strategic) private exchange...surprise surprise...the cat is so out of the bag it's embarrassing!

Troubled Transora - June 15th

Covisint delivers ROI to Ford - July 2nd; all from indirect materials procurement - this is basically a defensive move by Ford to neutralize any benefit lesser competitors might accrue via the exchange: common good savings, not "pecking order-changing" savings

Private Lines: Who wants to change the business processes to suit a public trading exchange? July 1st

Covisint CEO to holdouts: Divided we fall - June 26th; why other competitors to Ford and GM should join; what a plonker!

B2B Exchanges fail to reap rewards - UK news June 25

P2P Update: distributed computing technology begins to enter the mainstream - June 22

Peer Pressure: Napster first put P2P technology in the news. Its benefits now insure that P2P is here to stay - June 19th

Some developers remain wary of P2P - June 18

Analysis: Ford models true private exchange - June 18; Covisint is a relative joke!

Troubled Transora - June 15

From Revolution to Evolution - June 11

Two cheers for P2P - June 11

Collaboration cometh - June 11

Public exchanges add services while private markets gain the limelight - June 11

Two cheers for P2P - June 11

Supply Chain Management: Back to basics - June 4

B2B's silver lining emerges - June 4

After fast start, P2P gets a slow start - June 1

Broken business relationships: The dark side of collaboration - May 28th

Private B2B exchanges finding favor - May 28

Is P2P ready to do business? - May 24

DaimlerChrysler apparently spend $3bn on direct materials procurement on Covisint; see Delboy's comments here - May 16

Can Covisint climb out of the ditch? Not they way they are dressed now, no - May 16

Analysis: Collaborate or Cartel by Martin Butler of the Butler Group; this man is plain wrong and a "headline-hunter" - see my Comments here! - May 11

Ariba to focus on e-Procurement, SCM and CFRP in order to compete head on with once-lover i2 (yet Ariba does not have any solution, nor can they spell SCM or CPFR! - May 10

Love your enemy - May 10

After the b-2-b revolution; words of wisdom from true-visionary Larry Ellison - May 8

Leap of Faith: Why B2B went Bust - May 7th; supports the idea that Private will win over Public; shows Meta Group finally gets it too!

Peer to Peer - Learning to love your enemy - April 25

Wall St. begins to adopt Napster-like Peer Computing - April 24

P2P seeks B2B niche - April 23

Jupiter (Media Matrix) Hails Private Networks - April 23

Covisint stands it grounds - April 23 - Note that they have transacted, in their Q4, $350M; that vast majority of which was for indirect materials procurement; and Ford and Daimler/Chrysler have said recently that they will NOT move their private, strategic extranet-based business to Covisint....for obvious reasons....duh!

Why P2P will take big biz by storm - April 18

Flawed B2B Market Place Report totally missing the basic behavioral aspects of B2B - see Delboy's comments here - April

Strength in Number - April 16

P2P just hype? I don't think so - April 16

Competing P2P and distributed computing technologies race to gain market share - Apr 16

Monthly newsletter sights all the results I forecasted in 1999; collaboration is key; public net markets are flawed (in most cases) etc. - Apr

The meaning of P2P - Apr 11

Clued-Up on Collaborative Commerce - Apr 5

The demise of P2P? - Apr 4

The B2B winners are NOT....P2P - Apr 3

Ariba's B2B Initiatives panned by their own Strategist - Apr 3

SAP, i2 and CommerceOne agree that the real deal is with Private Exchanges, and not Public Net Markets - I guess they heard me (finally) - Apr 3

The Business of Peers: P2P - Apr 2

Marketplaces that work: This from Jim Clark, Jupiter Communications: "Matchmaking is not enough," says Tim Clark, a Jupiter Research (JMXI, info) analyst. "If transactions are all you're going to do, you have to do a whole lot of them. But there are other things companies value more." - Mar 26; See here my paper, The Rise and Fall of Trading Exchanges, published in 1999, that forecasted same.

Radical Simplicity: Behavior Change for the Supply Chain - April 2; Complexity Theory!