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We recommend checking out this Digital Commerce 360 B2B article reporting on a survey of 200 manufacturing companies regarding digital transformation initiatives and challenges. Here are a few highlights: 90% of manufacturing companies report losing business due to integration issues, with 42% saying they are losing $500,000 or more in revenue per year, 18% over…

Growth-focused B2Bs never compromise scalability. For distributors, manufacturers and wholesalers, now is the time to embrace the new normal and take advantage of the opportunities concealed in this era of digitization. Check out this brief Forbes article on the promise of B2B operations post-pandemic. If your organization is looking to say ‘yes’ to scalability, let’s…

I recommend checking out this quick (although heavily ad-supported) ITProPortal article on the biggest challenge to digital transformation. The numbers from a recent poll of 800 CIOs and IT decision-makers (which match our own research) are sobering. Custom integrations cost large enterprises an average of $3.5 million in annual labor. An organization will use an…

As you know if you’ve followed my series of emails on Commerce Connectivity, APIs are the cornerstone of today’s SaaS economy. Every eCommerce business should be using APIs to their advantage. The rise of the Connectivity in Commerce represents a seismic shift in the way eCommerce businesses operate today. I highly recommend taking a look…

We recommend checking out this resource on B2B eCommerce Integration, how it works and why your organization needs it. According to a MuleSoft survey of 800 IT leaders from across the globe, the average organization relies on hundreds of connected applications, yet only 28% of business systems integrate. Gartner predicts that by 2022, a typical…

Here is another good resource on the age-old question of whether to build or buy software for your organization. If you have a developer team, it’s always tempting to solve operational problems by building solutions in-house. Even though it seems like a logical choice at first, before you decide to go this route, make sure…