The high-tech sector has been hard hit by multiple, related factors placing extreme pressure on profitability. The recent financial market downturn has created an abrupt capital drought and severe worldwide cutbacks in customer spending for high technology products/services. High-tech companies face a buyer's market where they must compete on price while battling for share of maturing markets. Further pressure has been placed on revenues and profits by the rapid dissipation of "artificial" demand for technology products created by the Internet bubble. Meanwhile, technology products continue to rapidly change while individual product life cycles shrink.

This viewpoint from Deloitte Research shows that, in this complex environment, success goes to those who can most effectively bridge the geographic, organizational, and technology boundaries of the ecosystem. The winning ecosystem is the one best able to mimic an efficient vertically integrated enterprise: sharing strategies, decision making, and data to be most responsive to customer demands and marketplace changes.

Enter collaborative commerce (c-commerce), a set of multi-enterprise, Web-enabled capabilities that allow an enterprise to share business processes, decision making, workflow, and data with its suppliers, customers, partners, and employees. Learn more from the PDF file attachment below.

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