How Overstock Became a Leading Innovator in E-Commerce By Investing in Financial Technology and Small Merchants

In the late 1990s, the growing popularity of the internet laid the groundwork for Overstock.com to bring the benefits of e-commerce to both retailers and consumers. Launched in 1999 as a website for retailers of all sizes to liquidate excess inventory of consumer household goods, Overstock.com has grown both its product offerings and its reach. While its […]

Why You Should Use a Password Manager

Summary: Using a password manager is essential in a world where a lot of what we do is online. A lot of our day-to-day activities revolve around the internet. Watching movies, shopping, keeping in touch, and reading up on the news can all very easily take place on your phone or laptop. You likely have […]

Why You Should Consider Opening an Ecommerce Store

Article by Pierre Zarokian Summary: Ecommerce is a great alternative, and a perfect compliment, to a brick-and-mortar store. Ecommerce is a valuable tool that can be successful on its own or paired with a brick-and-mortar business. However, many business owners aren’t convinced that this platform can be a game-changer in terms of sales and profits. […]

Three EDI options for organizations

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is one of the technological innovations of the past century that led to the import and export that makes complicated manufacturing possible. With an EDI system organizations establish an understanding that allows the exchange of documents that match a common format. The biggest impact is for small and medium enterprises that […]

Common EDI challenges

EDI is one of the biggest technological innovations in the past few decades and is responsible for massively reducing supply chain delays. When you sign up for an EDI service bureau, you open up your business to a much larger growth. EDI gives you access to supply chain economics and trading partners, making previously difficult […]

How to Create Your Own NOC For Your Organization

Summary: A NOC can be an essential component to any company or business. Implementing it might be the best decision you’ve ever made. A Network Operations Center (NOC) is a crucial component for monitoring an organization’s network and ensuring its uptime. However, NOCs aren’t solely limited to network, they also provide visibility into IT security, […]

Three tips for increasing trading partners

Investing in technology is just as important as equipment and people for manufacturers and suppliers. Often, when a company implements electronic data interchange, it is at the behest of a single customer. The company realizes the benefits of EDI and runs into issues when it wants to expand coverage to all trading partners. Here are […]