Facing the forces of change As businesses face the continual forces of change, in just a few short years fast paced technological advances have produced the commercialisation of the Internet and our Information Age, creating a new and more efficient method of conducting business and business communications. Today, nowhere is the 'time to market' reality better exemplified than in the current race to build, integrate and leverage the enormous business opportunities that sophisticated e-business software technology delivers, bringing together and optimising business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) demand and supply chains. The Internet is the growth channel opportunity for businesses. Leading Distributors with the vision and understanding of their future competitive business positioning are establishing long term partnerships with their Information Technology suppliers in a quest to build e-business markets as quickly as possible, as they drive to seize the early adopter - first mover competitive advantage. By supporting and implementing web-enabled business systems, our customers will create intuitive co-operative environments that foster the mobilization and commercial relevance of product data - and in turn offer buyers and suppliers a wealth of consolidated, rich product information, including multiple purchasing options - such Distributors will more quickly create greater profitable liquidity in their e-business markets and define their competitive differentiation. Their focus on catalogue content, the content management issues and challenges, exposing relevant and easy access to rich, cleansed information, improve the opportunities in the creation of that all important e-business liquidity. Massive Corporate Asset - The Product Catalogue A company's Product Catalogue will become the major differentiator where well-managed information is used to leverage closer and direct relationships with trading partners, whether they are suppliers, customers or prospective customers, in satisfaction of their elevated expectations. Quantum VS e-business The Business Programme software product provides the ability to become adopters of an integrated e-business solution for the execution of end-to-end business transactions across the World Wide Web.