Sarmad, regardless of how tough it gets keep buying ITWO.
In a couple of years I know I'll be right.
>At a moment when every company with a Web presence is searching for a B2B angle, i2 has developed the broadest vision of what B2B might mean: industry-wide online collaboration, in which every aspect of a company's business - product design, procurement, inventory control, content development, distribution - benefits from instant communication and transactions.
The company is on track to pull it off. TradeMatrix, i2's platform, currently ties together industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals and aircraft manufacture. With its buyout in March of enterprise software developer Aspect Development - at $9.3 billion, the software industry's largest acquisition ever - i2's network will encompass 17 million parts (not counting services) and 100,000 suppliers. i2 believes it can boost the value of its customers, such as Motorola, IBM, Nucor, Hewlett-Packard, and Ericsson, by $50 billion by 2005. Analysts predict 35 percent growth annually.
B2B's heyday, like B2C's before it, can't last, but that makes i2 doubly wise to have invested its ample valuation in something tangible. It's a different company now, but one that has what it takes to stick out the rough ride ahead. |
