E-business Report Card

Software Magazine, Dec, 2000 by Chris Pickering

                         Are You Doing E-business?
         Yes No
U.S.     56% 44%
Non-U.S. 29% 71%
Source: Cutter Consortium
There's still time to get onboard. Only 42% of survey respondents are
currently doing e-business. U.S. firms are almost twice as likely to be
doing e-business as non-U.S. firms.
                         Who Owns Your E-business?
Shared   32%
Business 49%
IT       19%
Source: Cutter Consortium
Business has taken the e-business lead, in terms of both ownership and
funding. Almost half of survey respondents says that business
owns their e-business initiatives.
                               XML's Status
Not Aware   14%
In Use      21%
Plan to Use 25%
Revewing    28%
Reviewed     6%
Not Using    5%
No Longer    1%
Source: Cutter Consortium XML caught on because of its middleware
functionality. Enabling communication between disparate systems
is what catapulted XML into the mainstream.