IBM’s Marketplace Solutions: Is Ariba Not Enough?
D. Geller - June 8, 2000

Event Summary

IBM announced the WebSphere Commerce Suite, Marketplace Edition to help businesses build scalable marketplaces. Among the functions of the software are a variety of dynamic trading models, aggregated catalogs, secure membership registration, and business intelligence and reporting functions. A particular and notable feature of the software is that it fully integrates the WAP and SMS protocols for wireless devices - according to IBM it is the first marketplace software to support such wireless devices as mobile phones, PDAs, and pagers...