eCommerce, architecture...

Buy-Side eCommerce has been predominately manual call center and sales force driven. ERP integration eased the ability for most large organizations to link across the supply chain and provide 'self help' relationships driven by the aerospace and automotive industries.

The Buy-Side architecture is a secured 'business community' built for bandwidth volume management and batch transaction processing.

Since Buy-Side applications are less glamorous than Sell-Side applications and attract less development capital, the selection is more finite.