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To: J Fieb who wrote (1699)	12/21/1999 10:54:00 PM
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Douglas, Need help with the meaning of the highlighted paragraph- Any relationship to SANs? The Technology That Will Sharpen E-Biz Nick Evans If 1999 was the year that e-business got real, 2000 looks to be the year e-business hones its game. With that in mind, let's take a look at some of the changes we can expect to see in the coming year and how they'll impact IT. - Mobile e-commerce will grow. This is the new frontier for e-commerce. IT departments should plan to develop and implement applications and support infrastructure for an increasing number of mobile workers and the non-PC devices they use to get their work done. - Technology improves the customer experience. Precision search technology and other tools that help customers find what they're looking for will help commerce sites finally get the whole customer experience thing right. This will be a necessity as the remaining 50 percent of U.S. consumers start to use the Web. - Architecture will become even more important. Look for sites to be re-engineered to build in competitive advantage through flexibility and open standards. This creates sites that are flexible for both end users and for the business rules driving content and commerce. In 2000, the development pendulum should swing back toward custom applications vs. packaged apps for these same reasons. - E-diagnostics will get respect. After a slew of e-retailing disasters over the holidays, corporations will start to realize the imperatives of quality assurance and stress testing even when moving development cycles at Internet speed. - ASP models will proliferate. According to Dataquest, revenue from application hosting services will grow at a compounded rate of 90 percent per year, to $22.7 billion, through 2003. In addition to application hosting, we will also see business models develop around niche process hosting-for example, hosting a small slice of a Web site value chain for a large number of companies. - E-marketplaces will face consolidation. Trading hubs will appear in almost every vertical market they haven't yet conquered, but they will see a lot of consolidation. IT departments will need to understand the competitive threat of these marketplaces and help their companies identify the best partners to play with. - Data exchange will become more fluid. XML standards and products have already begun to unlock content from proprietary storage structures and allow free exchange among customers and business partners. In 2000, the IT mainstream will discover XML and finally understand its potential. - Virtual commerce will be born. E-commerce and content sites will each leverage multiple ASP services to improve the overall value proposition for their sites. Many of these services will be transparent to the user-who will be unaware of the real-time virtual partnerships making their experience possible. Nick Evans is the author of several books on Web technology and a director focused on e-business with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He can be reached at nick.evans@us.pwcglobal.com. Copyright © 1999 CMP Media Inc.

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