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After the upset of the dotcom boom and bust, companies are once again investing in e-commerce systems, according to our latest research. Pat Sweet reports.
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SURVEY STATISTICS
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We spoke to organisations from a wide variety of industry backgrounds for this survey. Getting on for a quarter (22%) come from the public sector, which has seen a large number of e-commerce initiatives in recent years as the Government pushes for the majority of central and local authority services to be provided online by 2005.
The e-commerce revolution has had a major impact on the financial services industry (16% of our sample) and the retail sector (10%).
We also include the views of companies in the construction, utilities, manufacturing and information technology business.
The majority (60%) of the companies have turnovers of more than £150 million, while 20% report a turnover in excess of £5 billion.
Smaller enterprises are also taken into account, with 14% of our sample recording turnovers in the £10-50 million bracket.
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There are some rays of sunshine on the e-commerce horizon. Despite the doom and gloom produced by the myriad of dotcom collapses, many companies believe that online buying and selling can be made to work and are prepared to invest the money and time to ensure that it does so.
Those are the main findings of our research into the
e-commerce software area.
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