Cloud Technologies Driving Businesses to Re-think their B2B

Article by RealWire

Core Facts
Organisations today deem business-to-business (B2B) integration strategies critical to business growth, and recognise that cloud-based integration can drive business agility and cut costs. However, nearly half of survey respondents are making a costly mistake by taking a tactical approach to automating these processes, according to a recent Vanson Bourne survey

The primary technology driver making companies re-think their B2B integration strategy is the ability to deploy more cloud-based B2B integration. In fact, over the next 12 months:

- 86 percent are planning to adopt a more diversified set of deployment models than in the past, including cloud, in-house and hybrid in-house-and-cloud approaches

- 29 percent will consume more B2B integration from the cloud than they used to

Most of the businesses surveyed are considering alternative deployment options, such as taking a hybrid approach or adopting cloud technologies, which provide a flexible approach to their integration needs. On average:

- 46 percent say that they want to consolidate legacy point B2B integration infrastructure solutions to a single, shared B2B integration platform able to meet all [their] business requirements