How do you get started in your e-business transformation?

Transforming Your Traditional Business

Discovering where to begin the e-business transformation is different for every company. It depends not only on the type of business you run or the industry you're in, but also on the areas of transformation that will give you the biggest and quickest return on your investment (ROI). For example:

If you're a small bookseller, expanding your markets globally may result in an immediate—and very significant—increase in revenue. In this case, you may want to begin your transformation by creating an online Web store with shopping cart capabilities and connecting your suppliers to your customers so that you can handle the increase in business.

If you're a global foodservice retailer with thousands of restaurants around the world, your biggest and most immediate ROI may result from simplifying and consolidating your accounting and human resources processes over the Web. So, this may be where your e-business transformation would begin.

Although the basic goal becoming an e-business is the same in both scenarios, actually pinpointing where to begin your transformation differs in many cases.

Discovering where to get started in your transformation may seem like a confusing and daunting task—but it doesn't have to be. Oracle and its partners can get your company moving in the direction that's right for your unique business needs.

Together with our e-business partners—including industry-leading consultants, Web integrators, and technology experts—Oracle can help you discover your e-business potential and formulate a long-and short-term transformation strategy.

We offer an integrated suite of methods, tools and enablers to help you investigate, implement and improve Oracle e-business solutions to yield optimal strategic value to your company.


Transforming Dotcoms

Being a dotcom company does not automatically mean you're an e-business. Although there are thousands of young dotcom companies on the Web today, only a handful of them are actual e-businesses. This means that all existing dotcoms will have to make the e-business transformation quickly to stay competitive in the long-term.

On the other hand, up-and-coming dotcom companies (including existing businesses that want to branch out onto the Web), don't have the same trial and error luxuries that the earlier dotcoms had. Today, if you just throw up a Web site and an online store without the necessary infrastructure to fully support your business, real e-businesses will run right over you. A strategic e-business plan has to be in place from the beginning in order to compete with the scores of competitors popping up on the Web.

So how do you get started? It depends on whether you're an existing dotcom company or are considering becoming a dotcom company.