Businesses live or die by the networks with which they connect, whether it's connecting people or connecting businesses.

In our daily lives, most of us experience the benefits of being connected to networks. Whether we're shopping with Amazon, booking travel with Kayak or advancing our careers and connecting with others via LinkedIn, we're leveraging the benefits of integrated, consumer networks to make our lives easier, better, more efficient and, often, more affordable.

In the business-to-business (B2B) world networks carry many of the same benefits, and like business-to-consumer (B2C) networks, have evolved considerably over time. The leading B2B networks today become embedded into a business' workflow, underpinning efficient processes and transactions, or more importantly, connecting trading partners and supply chains in such ways that create transparent, informed decisions and interactions that deliver exponential value to all participants. 

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