But this isn’t the complete story. Most of this angst concerns public B2B exchanges. For real success, look at what’s going on with corporate or private B2B marketplaces.

Large public marketplaces, once the domain of online business-to-business transactions, are being supplanted by smaller, private exchanges that put single businesses at the hub of their own B2B world.

In it, they postulated that we could anticipate the proliferation of private B2B exchanges, differentiating them from the public B2B exchanges that caught everyone's fancy a few years ago with ...

Evans says both public and private exchanges are in many companies’ futures. J.C. Penney’s suppliers use a private hub to trade sales information, track inventory and exchange orders and invoices.

While Global eXchange Services, with IBM and Sterling Commerce, dominates private B2B e-commerce, the Internet is exerting a profound influence. CEO Harvey Seegers expects EDI and XML will coexist ...

A private exchange, he said, can provide a single integration point for B2B e-commerce and serve as the foundation for collaborating with trading partners. Anne Chen ...

CPFR IN B2B EXCHANGES While public and private business-to-business exchanges offer integrated catalog management, procurement, auction and logistics services, many are committed to offer ...

Rival B2B software vendors i2 Technologies Inc. and Ariba Inc. will jointly provide the core technology that will be used to fuel the new exchange, according to yesterday’s announcement.

Over 100 business-to-business brands are using digital solutions from BPA Media Exchange, an online private marketplace for automated sales of B2B media and digital marketing products, since it ...