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E-commerce continues to rock 'n' roll

This promises to be another rock 'n' roll year for e-commerce, as companies tune their Web infrastructures to deliver more functionality while maintaining service levels. But with most e-commerce budgets flat from 2001 to 2002, maturing your e-commerce infrastructure requires a new songbook. In this, our fourth-annual Electronic Commerce Issue, a special Signature Series edition, we showcase new technologies and business models to keep your e-business singing.
Julie Bort
Executive Editor, Signature Series
jbort@nww.com
Faster e-comm on the cheap

A look at five technologies that boost site performance yet are easy on your wallet.

Assembling a top-of-the-line Web services model

Ford Credit wins Network World's 2002 E-comm Innovator Award with an open-standards infrastructure that saves the company carloads of money.

Several other great networking projects earned honorable mention status.

Build tomorrow's great site today

Internal process management, supplier management, collaboration and e-payments: Four budding e-comm technologies sure to blossom in 2002.

Staking out digital rights

Digital rights management software addresses the thorny e-comm problem of sharing content while protecting intellectual property.

Thwarting cyberterrorism

Are cyberterrorists trying to crack your network? Five security gurus assess the threat.

Web services quandary

We navigate through the maze of Web standards needed for tomorrow's business-to-business e-commerce.

Flower power

FTD.com CIO Fred Johnson describes building one of the nation's most profitable e-commerce sites.

E-commerce puzzle mania

Answer the questions to reveal the puzzle; decipher the pictures to solve it.

Architecting a winning e-business

E-comm Innovator Award winner Ford Credit uses a single framework for its almost two-dozen applications and services. Here's the lowdown on its ultra-scalable design.
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The definition of Web services standards

We take the pain out of tracking Web services standards with this interactive diagram that shows how they all fit together.
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E-commerce product profile

Our downloadable list serves up the basics on all the products profiled in this issue.
PDF Version (182K)  HTML Version

In need of numbers

Our downloadable list guides you to a bevy of e-commerce market research reports to help you get the hard numbers and facts today's IT analysis requires.
PDF Version (192K)  HTML Version

E-commerce research center

Links to major resources, case studies, legal issues and more.

XML/Web services research page

Links to tutorials, major resources and more, and information on evolving standards such as UDDI, SOAP, BEEP, WSDL and others.

XML audio primer

Learn about XML's history, benefits and drawbacks, and see examples of how it is being used.

E-commerce case studies

See how five retailers prepared and enhanced their sites for the 2001 holidays.

E-commerce breaking news

Stay on top of the latest vendor, product and technology news.

THE SIGNATURE SERIES The Electronic Commerce Issue is one of six bimonthly supplements providing insights, opinions and information on the biggest trends shaping the networked world.

 

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