No spring cleaning needed in the Cloud

It's that time of year when you should be opening up the doors and windows to make room for the fresh spring air. With the warmer weather, comes the cleaning and uncovering of those tasks you've haven't gotten around to this winter. This habit has a way of making it into our business lives as well. The good news is... if you are using the cloud for your integration activities such as processing Purchase Orders (PO), acknowledging Advance Ship Notices (ASN), and Invoices, there is no need for cleaning. Make sure you have a reputable vendor who has the financial backing to keep it's platform current, who can boast that it's network has never been breached and carries a >99.99% uptime, so you can rest assured. You need not worry about the cobwebs because with a multi-tenant cloud solution like IBM offers on the Sterling Collaboration Network, it will be handling your business-to-business B2B spring cleaning for you. 

Challenge your IT department on their spring cleaning projects and ask 'How many trading partners are in the queue waiting to do business with you?' This question is asking directly about onboarding and how efficient your IT organization is at basic B2B Integration. We find many of our clients have several in the queue and some are keeping thousands waiting. This inability to execute affects revenue which is something your CFO cares deeply about for his/her spring cleaning.

In the past year while you were acquiring these cobwebs and being reactive to your B2B activity, IBM doubled its data center capacity with 13 new SoftLayer data center facilities. These centers link to an ever expanding set of IBM Cloud Services and other data centers. PaaS capabilities with Bluemix, IBM Cloud marketplace, and SaaS solutions built on SoftLayer are a combination no other vendor matches. So consider the cloud and let go of your outdated spring cleaning rituals as the visibility B2B Cloud Services provides is superior to your on-premise capabilities. Read more about our robust network and cloud services capabilities @ IBM B2B Cloud Services. 

How 'clean' is your B2B integration?