Big, boring, booming: business-to-business e-commerce is a revolution in a ball valve. (electronic commerce method used by General Electric Information Services)(A Survey of Electronic Commerce)
Economist (US), The, May, 1997
General Electric Information Services implemented the use of an electronic bidding system on the World Wide Web in 1996 and the system has proved to be quite successful and economical. The system, called Trading Process Network, is liked by suppliers because of increased access to GE companies.
A GOVERNMENT-GREY high-rise in the centre of Rockville, Maryland, half an hour outside Washington, DC, could hardly seem further from Amazon's coffee-driven Seattle bookstore. But this drab monolith houses an electronic-commerce experiment that, in its own way, is every bit as significant. It is the headquarters of General Electric Information Services, one of the 12 divisions of America's largest and most profitable company. When GE does something, businesses everywhere pay...
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