CrossTier.com `B2B Internet Survival Guide' Delivers Eye-Opening Advice on Preventing E-Commerce `Train Wrecks'.Business/Technology Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and on Business Wire's Web site at www.businesswire.com FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2000 Leading B2B E-Commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. Services Firm Offers Internet Commerce Entrepreneurs Proven Strategies for Avoiding Commerce Catastrophes Caused by Faulty Approaches CrossTier.com, a leading B2B e-commerce professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firm, today released its new "B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business Internet Survival Guide," offering Internet practitioners valuable, practical insight into what it takes to design and build robust, high-volume e-commerce Web sites and lower the risk of system crashes. The Survival Guide offers some eye-opening advice for managers of e-businesses, revealing some of the critical success factors for designing and building integrated, back-end systems to support online sales and manage online customer and channel relationships. The advice offered in CrossTier.com's Survival Guide results from direct experience with its client companies in the rapidly growing B2B market who are grappling with faulty or under-designed back-end e-commerce infrastructures. "We are seeing a lot of digital train wrecks train wreck Medtalk A popular term for a multiproblem Pt in critical condition out there," said CrossTier.com President Ed Bell. "We'd like to help e-commerce entrepreneurs plan for success by avoiding some common mistakes. Most companies need help in developing a strategy that keeps them ahead of their competition while protecting them from web site crashes caused by skyrocketing hit rates and the need to support their complex, tiered business relationships online. Our mission is to harness the power of the Internet to accelerate the growth of our clients' businesses, and the Survival Guide is our attempt to help e-businesses head off these train wrecks before they happen." Issues regarding legacy systems integration, distribution channels, catalogs, accounting, and fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. systems are some of the causes that can lead to a crisis when unexpected traffic peaks hit emerging B2B sites that have not been properly planned and designed. The Survival Guide addresses these topics, and others, in eight thought-provoking vignettes, including: -- The Looming looming: see mirage. e-Commerce Crisis -- From Bricks to Clicks -- Who's Yanking your Value Chain -- Changing the Channel -- Getting a Better Address on e-Main Street -- e-Commerce Vaporware Software that is not yet in production, but the announced delivery date has long since passed. At times, software vendors are criticized for intentionally producing vaporware in order to keep customers from switching to competitive products that offer more features. -- Catalogs: the Keys to the Kingdom -- Runaway e-Expectations The Survival Guide is available free of charge by calling CrossTier.com directly at 703.383.4100 or by visiting their Web site at http://www.crosstier.com/survivalguide. About CrossTier.com CrossTier.com is a leading Internet professional services firm focused on delivering custom business-to-business e-commerce solutions for e-businesses. Specializing in innovative Microsoft platform solutions, CrossTier.com helps its clients to design, test, implement, maintain and customize their B2B e-commerce solutions to improve both sides of the value chain equation, supporting both purchasing and selling activities. CrossTier.com's teams of experienced advisors, developers and analysts design, build and trouble-shoot B2B e-commerce solutions in a variety of industry sectors, including telecommunications, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , manufacturing and utilities. Founded in 1990, CrossTier.com is located at 3877 Fairfax Ridge Road The name Ridge Road can refer to multiple streets and roads. Canada
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