Transactions set to rise
3 April 2012
Companies across the industrial spectrum are predicting massive expansion in the use of web-based business-to-business technology, according to a recent survey on e-commerce.
While companies said only 3 per cent of their transactions were conducted over the Internet in the past 12 months, they forecast this would rise to 20 per cent in the next two years.
In the survey of 400 companies by Mori for Cranfield School of Management and sponsored by Microsoft, similar rises were reported by retail, financial and public sector companies....