Staying ahead of the pack in today's business climate demands that companies integrate new and existing business applications and processes in increasingly diverse computing environments. The recent ...

The recent explosion in corporate mergers, acquisitions and e-commerce, demonstrates how companies are doing all they can to maintain a competitive advantage in a changing market place. But these ...

Here is one way to look at distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and blockchain in the context of integration evolution. Over the years, businesses and their systems are getting more integrated, ...

Every company has core revenue-producing business processes such as order-to-cash and procure-to-pay that govern how business gets done with customers, suppliers, logistics firms and financial ...

Different business strategies can help small-business owners improve their operations in a variety of ways. Business integration strategies are used to cross-train management and employees, reduce ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Cohen covers the global legal industry and business reinvention. The first of this two-part article explores why legal ...

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Dynamics — Microsoft’s combination customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning platform for sales, service, project management and operations — isn’t just for large organizations ...

As the federal government moves to achieve its digital transformation goals, agencies and the chief information officers (CIOs) responsible for integrating new technologies should adopt a ...

WBI Server Express completes IBM's business process integration platform for the SMB space, according to Mark Ouellette, vice president of worldwide marketing for SMB at IBM. SMB customers, like their ...

Vertical integration is the degree to which a firm owns its upstream suppliers and its downstream buyers with the goal of increasing the company's power in the marketplace. There are three varieties ...

Business phrases like "due diligence" and "leverage" are common and well-known, but some newer ones, like forward integration, can be unfamiliar. The forward integration definition shared on ...