Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What else is going on in the broader market right now? Is e-commerce is really starting to come alive again? I have seen some statistics; 20,000 e-commerce stores are coming online every week. My point is, whatever category you are a supplier or supplier group in,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Next in our discussion, I would like to explore entrepreneurial opportunities from your point of view in the supply chain domain. I am talking about the supply chain in general, and it sounds like you are reasonable experts in this domain. Where do you see entrepreneurial

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Can you talk to me about the supply chain operations reference (SCOR) models? SS: The SCOR people have a relationship with the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association (AAIA), and we are close to AMR, which is now part of Gartner. The AMR people think we can help

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is the response from the industry? There are a large number of players on the AAIA board; what is their response to architecture such as yours, and what is their interest in getting on board?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What you delivered to the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association was a metadata structure of sorts? JP: Yes, exactly. SS: In terms of business model, we built ours on the reverse market adoption model. Once we realized that the legacy messed up this process and that making

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let me drill down a bit more into some of the things you said. What is the total number of parts that you mentioned are in the automobile aftermarket industry? SS: Three million are highly active ones out of 10 million parts.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 1)

In the following interview, Sramana and Steven discuss how supply chain services for Internet-based electronic data interchange (EDI) in the automotive and traditional whole goods markets are adopting cloud computing to their advantage.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: GCI created this “order to cash” service spin-off. Tell me more about what happened and what made you decide to make this move? Are you providing that same “order-to-cash” offering, which is cloud based, to various telecom and utility providers now?