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To simplify slightly, there are two aspects to e-business: selling over the internet, which is also known as e-commerce, and using internet technology to streamline aspects of the business itself. This issue of the International Consultants’ Guide addresses both. It includes articles on the e-business market in general, on questions of strategy and on the distinct areas of e-procurement, service provision and rights management. From these articles a common theme emerges: that e-business is entering a new, more mature phase. The suggestion is that the gold-fever days of the dotcom rush have receded, to be replaced by a more rational and more promising outlook. This view is articulated particularly clearly in our Expert Opinion article, contributed in this issue by Roger Williams of Atos Origin. Two more general views are expressed by more than one writer: e-business can still lead organisations too easily down blind alleys; and, for this and other reasons, it is underdeveloped and underused. E-business looks likely, then, to continue to be fertile territory for thoughtful consultants, in whatever guise it adopts next.
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Throughout this
issue we feature profiles of suppliers of e-business software and services.
This information, supplied by the companies, has been checked and validated
by management and IT consultancy Lorien Consulting.