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• White beer, black swans, red letters, and tangled webs: Happy Birthday, EDIFICE!

  Matthew Walker, Vice President, EMEA, E2open - Friday, June 17, 2011 - 0 Comments
  

  I’ve just returned from sunny Munich for some B2B "strategizing" with the EDIFICE folks. It was their birthday party. EDIFICE, the European high-tech organization, is now 25 years old. We had good reason to celebrate in Bavaria, and the conversations were lubricated by white (Weiss) beer and other local delicacies. More »

• EDIFICE in Paris: The winds of change

  Matthew Walker, Vice President, EMEA, E2open - Friday, March 04, 2011 - 0 Comments
  

  I spent a couple of days in a windy and chilly Paris at the latest EDIFICE conference. EDIFICE is a European High Tech B2B standards group and has been around for nearly 25 years. As a result, the 50 or so attendees know a thing or two about supply chain and B2B. On this occasion they were keen to understand how customer demands were influencing the high tech and other supply chains and invited a broad range of speakers.  More »

• EDIFICE in Amsterdam: B2B readiness in SME markets

  Matthew Walker, Vice President, EMEA, E2open - Friday, November 05, 2010 - 0 Comments
  

  Just back from the 112th EDIFICE Plenary in stormy Amsterdam, and I must say that the Netherlands have never felt so ominous. I’m talking about the weather of course, not the conference, which attracted nearly 80 attendees from countries around the world... including a broad source of users, vendors, and standards organizations.  More »