Paul Desmond

Companies looking to conduct complex business transactions might expect Web services to enable those efforts. But along the way, they might find some business partners adamant about using another technology for the same purpose, electronic business with XML.

When thinking about your extended enterprise projects, consider these words of advice from IT executives at business-to-business e-commerce pioneers Ford Motor Credit Co., Sigma-Aldrich Co. and Staples Inc.

When it comes to data storage, redundancy is never superfluous.

When it comes to data storage, redundancy is never superfluous.

Ask people to imagine what enterprise networks will look like in the future and they generally laugh.