E-Business Breakfast: Iconixx Promotes CTO To CEO

Walker had been CTO at the Houston-based e-business solution provider, which counts Nationwide Insurance and Sallie Mae among its clients.

The private company says it is on track to exceed revenue and profitability projections for 2001.

Good morning! It's Wednesday, April 18, and this is Amy Rogers with CRN's E-Business Breakfast.

Avanade, the consulting venture formed by Accenture and Microsoft a year ago, says its consultants will use software from Ecora, Portsmouth, N.H.

Ecora's IT Auditors and Documentors products capture server configuration settings, formatting the data into reports that decrease time spent documenting customer-specific systems.

Ecora officials say their software helps build and preserve a knowledge base of best practices and makes training new staffers easier, among other benefits.

Read about Avanade's growing focus on government deals here.

Enporion, a B2B exchange assisting energy companies in procuring products they need to run their businesses, said recently it has selected MobShop for new e-business capabilities.

MobShop, based in San Francisco, specializes in demand aggregation services to attain better prices for a group of buyers. In Enporion's case, the MobShop technology could result in more attractive terms for participants in Enporion's Group Contracts segment. Read more about MobShop here.

Enporion is the first marketplace launched by Commerce One in tandem with SAPmarkets. Read an overview of Enporion's deployment strategy here.

That's your E-Business Breakfast for Wednesday. What's bugging you most about the economic downturn? Tell me; I'm at arogers@cmp.com.