E-fulfillment

Bekins has been providing high-quality transportation and distribution services across North America for more than a century. Bekins also provides logistics and fulfillment for E-tailers as well as brick-and-mortar retailers who offer direct-to-home delivery for their customers. The challenge was to have a better B2B application. The solution was the launching of its first ever Web services application, the Tonnage Broadcast Exchange (TBE). TBE will enable Bekins to, dramatically grow its brokerage business (whereby it hands off shipping orders to agents or independent third party transportation companies). tech news

BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications services provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth needed to focus on its core business of providing network connectivity and reduce the risk and expense of managing e-business hosting centers. At the same time, the company wanted to improve customer responsiveness, offer more value-added e-business services, and increase profitability - to become a more focused and responsive telecom. BellSouth assigned its customer portfolio of hosting contracts to IBM. IBM, in turn, transformed the sites hosting those customers to IBM e-business Hosting Centers by deploying its proprietary architecture based on IBM's common global infrastructure. tech news

With banks reporting checks declining from 3-8% a year, the need to move to electronic checkprocessing has become acute. The October 28, 2004 effective date of the Check Truncation Act hascreated a deadline on which banks and industry associations are focused. Check conversion, in the form of ARC (Accounts Receivable conversion) and POP (Point of Purchase conversion), has already begun a sharp upward trajectory, growing in excess of 800% in 2003. This growth will continue, joined in 2005 by slow but steady growth in image exchange and check truncation. tech news

This White Paper offers a brief overview of Web services, explores the security challenges that are posed by this new technology, and illustrates how exisiting security technologies might be applied in a Web services environment. The paper also outlines how RSA Security is uniquely qualified to assist an enterprise in developing and implementing an effective security strategy for Web services. tech news

As more and more business processes move to the Web, it's increasingly critical that enterprises provide always-available Web operations - no matter what the conditions may be at the site of the origin infrastructure, or on the public Internet. Hardware failures, software failures, attacks, natural disasters, misconfigurations, and even planned maintenance, create downtime that brings e-business to a temporary halt. And downtime for any reason can lead to frustrated users, damaged brand, or even the loss of critical information and revenue. This paper discusses the costs and benefits of various Web site uptime solutions, as well as what solution requirements you should look for to keep your e-business running effectively. tech news