According to our recently released survey, that’s where roughly 90% of companies place it.  I think this sets up a bit of a misalignment of priorities.  eBusiness is about company to company communication and about orders and revenue.  These are generally not at the top of the IT goals list and adding another company’s system to the mix seriously challenges the goal of keeping control over the IT environment.

Many of our customers align ebusiness with sales or marketing and these organizations not only benefit from a longer and wider view of the function but also are keenly aware of the benefits that come from deep integration with customer ordering systems and accelerated invoicing processes.