for businesses to compete in the new digital economy. As organizations investigate how to implement an e-commerce enabled website, too many experience unfulfilled expectations and suffer cost overruns due to software and infrastructure limitations, project delays, and insufficient technical resource allocation. The impact can be devastating on a growing business. The net result is lost sales, revenue, and all too often collateral damage to your brand.

Clearly, e-commerce is here to stay. International Data Corporation has projected that 46 million Americans will buy $16 billion worth of goods annually in 2001, and $54 billion by 2002. Looking further ahead, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter estimates sales of anywhere between $21 billion to $115 billion annually by 2005.

You must plan every facet of your e-commerce initiatives, including initial consultation, exploration, development, implementation, and server-hosting operations, before getting started. Further, in today's changing environment, you need fast time-to-market and scalable solutions that allow you to grow your e-Commerce capability to support growth in customer traffic.

Challenged to deliver immediate business value via a commerce site, it is critical that you chart the right course to e-commerce functionality. The fundamental question is, do you build the capability in house or outsource?

We offer hosted access to best-in-class e-commerce solutions. Built on a state-of-the-art, feature-rich hosting platform, our commerce solutions are the single-source solution for flexible, hosted e-commerce business advantage acceleration. We analyze your e-commerce requirements, and tailor a hosted solution, accessible over the Internet - available 24x7.

We take away the overhead - you don't need to buy the software, set up the databases, manage the application, or worry about the connectivity and hardware infrastructure. This service-based approach accelerates your speed to functionality, allowing you to focus 100 percent of your attention on improving your business