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B2B

An Internet strategy of dealing directly with businesses, rather than consumers, i.e. business to (2) business.

Business-to-Business

A transaction conducted between a business and another business. For example, a publisher may sell books to a retailer, ship it to him/her, and receive payment without the books ever going to their end users (i.e. readers). The term is often associated with e-commerce, that is, with business-to-business transactions over the Internet.

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The second segment relates to pre-configured, out-of-the box features such as process workflows, content management and collaboration, usually in support of internal B2E portal sites or more specific applications such as e-commerce or information management.

Whatever happened to the $14.8bn enterprise portal market?

I found the simplicity of the book particularly conducive to understanding the concept of B2E. The book begins with a foreword by management expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who initially breaks down the B2E theory so that even someone like me (who has no inclination toward high flying corporate knowledge) can digest and understand what it's about.

REVIEW: A Thousand Tribes: How Technology Unites People in Great Companies

B2E's ability to provide a single global database for such functions as FIR is a big advantage over the traditional ways of handling so many different processes at the local level.

Business-to-Employee: Automating the HR function

Group b2E: (26.01 - 27.14)99 + 0.5(26.01-27.14)10 = -117;

Welfare and markets in passenger transport

Knowledge management has been effective in B2E and B2C channels; more effort will be needed to nurture and harness KM in B2B channels.

Start-up skills and knowledge are prized by large enterprises

Toronto-based Vortex specialises in mobile workforce management (WFM) applications designed to improve business-to-employee (B2E) communications.

RedPrairie buys Canada's Vortex Connect

MindTree's IBM WebSphere CoE has over 450 professionals specializing in WebSphere technologies and developing scalable, secure B2B, business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-employee (B2E) applications on various WebSphere products.

MindTree Launches Contract Pricing Framework Using IBM WebSphere Commerce to Help Businesses Reduce eCommerce Development and Implementation Cycles

Some would argue that such a path--where the information aspects of HRM are modernized into B2E online networks, the supporting talent pool functions are transformed into true consulting functions, and the performance management functions are directly assimilated by line managers--is not such a bad outcome.

Fixing federal hiring

According to Janet Beyers, HP's director of B2E Service, the company saved more than $50 million the first year the portal was up and running.

Personalization and portals: if you build it (right) they will come

But the emergence of cheap digital cellular services has opened up the market for real-time data accessible over mobile phones, creating an avenue for business to business (B2B) and business to employee (B2E) services.

Implementing a mobile business strategy. (Management)

BroadVision One-To-One Portal 7.0 is an application for deploying personalized B2B, business-to-employee (B2E), and business-to-consumer (B2C) portals.

BroadVision rolls out business portal applications. (Internet Publishing Today)

Mobile data systems for corporates have been available since the early 1990s for applications such as communicating with fleet vehicles`Now the emergence of cheap digital cellular services has opened up the market for real-time data accessible over mobile phones, creating an avenue for business to business (B2B) and business to employee (B2E) services in the form of Mobile Information Management (MIM).