For every article about the impending demise of EDI, you'll find another about how much growth it's experiencing and how well the technology continues to function.

As commerce is increasingly conducted via websites and smartphone, fulfillment options continue to proliferate for suppliers. One common choice is between warehousing your own catalog products and dropshipping them from your own suppliers.

We took a look at API's yesterday in a great blog by Daniel Odio. In an article on the eConsultancy site, David Chiu takes us through some of the business issues related to the types and uses of API's.