A platform for business-to-business sell-side, private exchanges and marketplaces

Authors:
J. Sairamesh;R. Mohan;M. Kumar;L. Hasson;C. Bender
Affiliations:
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York;IBM Research Division, IBM India Research Laboratory, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
Venue:
IBM Systems Journal
Year:
2002

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Abstract

E-commerce, in terms of the monetary value of transactions, is heavily skewed toward business-to-business (B2B) commerce. Numerous B2B sites are already in existence, providing a fairly rich set of functionality for enabling simple or sophisticated trading of goods and services. In the coming years, we expect a strong growth in many kinds of B2B sites for trading, procurement, and sales. In this paper, we present a B2B platform suitable for various kinds of businesses such as large sellers, dealers, distributors, private exchanges, marketplaces, and procurement hubs. We present business scenarios, describe our design criteria, and present the architecture for the B2B platform. We discuss two major IBM offerings within the WebSphere® Commerce Suite product-- WebSphere Commerce Suite, Marketplace Edition (MPE) and WebSphere Commerce Business Edition (BE)--that are based on this platform. We also present some experiences with and deployment of MPE for private exchanges and marketplaces.