B2B hubs / Portals (97) Portals|Directories|Vertical hubs|Functional hubs

Portals

eCommerce portals product portals, country portals Biz Wiz The Business to Business Marketplace. It is a One stop, full service system connecting 300,000 registered and participating companies through a common database and technology platform called a Digital Prism™. It offers a suite of services that facilitate commercial transactions between the users b2business.net The network for B2B professionals CommerceInc (CI) is powering business to business (b2b) marketplaces by providing online profiles of Buyers and Sellers. CI is the publisher of more than 11 million Supplier Cards, the most in-depth, up-to-date and comprehensive b2b content available online. Based in New York City and Lexington, Kentucky, CommerceInc has become the de facto standard provider of information about businesses on the Internet.  VerticalNet, Inc.  creator and operator of vertical trade communities. VerticalNet leverages the interactive features and global reach of the Internet to create multi-national, targeted business-to-business communities. I B Net’s Exchange Alert is a global business-to-business resource for targeted online buying and selling. Using "push technology" to identify companies’ needs, Exchange Alert searches for leads and "pushes" like-minded companies together.  BidCast Bidcast.Com is a leading Online Government and Business Contracting Marketplace. Hundreds of daily bid & sub contract opportunities. Database of 200,000 + suppliers and contractors. Beginners Guides & Advanced Support to Govt. Contracting, powerful Online Directories to Govt. & State Agencies.  Harbinger.net E-Commerce Portal, harbinger.net, Opens Doors to Support 40,000+ Customers and Industry Professionals Worldwide.  WIZnet™'s eCommerce portal the world's leading service for serious business-to-business commerce. It offers interactive, browser-based Internet access to unabridged product and service catalogs, including exact images of every catalog page, as well as secure channel for business communication and negotiation - all on demand from your desktop. iMerchants.com  iMerchants.com is the next generation all-in-one e-commerce portal in Asia. It is designed to provide convenient access to a wide range of interactive e-commerce services. These include secure online shopping, auctions, business-to-business trading, product and service searching, payment and fulfillment facilities. GE Information Services, Inc. (GEIS) GE Information Services delivers a full suite of business-to-business electronic commerce solutions. GE manages a large electronic trading community of over 100,000 trading partners.  B-To-B Online® is a web site specializing in the needs of the business-to-business community. Here you will find gateways to companies from all over the world, which you can browse at your leisure to compare solutions, request additional information -- even place orders Ariba.com Network™ is a standards-based Internet service that connects buyers to suppliers worldwide. Batomic.com is Global Trading Communities doing business to business e-commerce. Suppliers can create and manage their inventory merchandise, create and manage Client accounts, and respond to orders placed by their Clients. BizProLink is the Internet's fastest growing network of online professional communities. BizProLink currently owns 16 vertical Business-to-Business communities: Accounting, Architecture & Design, Banking and Mortgage, Construction, Dental, Education, Financial Management, Foodservice, Hotel, Insurance, Law Enforcement, Legal, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Real Estate and Travel.  Internet Capital Group is an Internet holding companies primarily engaged in managing and operating a network of B2B eCommerce companies. ProNetLink The Global Trade Internetwork that allows companies from all over the world to communicate and conduct business live on-line. Mercantil.com - Latin america Business Portal  SupplyWorks The SupplyWorks Service is an on-line, hosted service for requisitioners and purchasing professionals. The Service provides a customized interface that channels requisitioners to approved suppliers and their custom online catalogs. The Service provides all of the functionality needed to conduct Internet Commerce with suppliers. B2B Businessnet Internet communication projects for the use of Business to Business  UPYP - Advanced B2B E-Commerce Portal Eocenter Deploy EoCenter and transform your vertical portal into the preferred destination site for business professionals in your industry. Epicentric Epicentric is a leading provider of turnkey enterprise and vertical portal solutions. OutBlaze Instant Portal OutBlaze Instant Portal. Add e-mail, message boards, mailing lists and chat to your site. Portalhq Portalhq can quickly build a general or vertical portal site to your specifications. PronetLink PronetLink. The Global Trade Internetwork. A unique Business-to-Business portal site.

Companies directories

Thomas Register Enormous database of industrial information: companies, product & service, classification headings, online supplier catalogs, companies web sites. Purchase line item products through the electronic commerce -TPN Register. BizWeb  Company directory makes it easy to locate products and services. Used equipment network Directory of 50,000 items of used manufacturing etc. equipment and directory of 5,000 dealers. CNN Financial Network b-to-b directory The Biz U.K.-based business-to-business directory SIC-Guide a web site from B2B-Guide. This interactive directory of information on over 75,000 businesses is logically organized by SIC code. Search for business info by a certain SIC code, geography or even by the company’s name. Harris InfoSource is the leading compiler and provider of high value business information profiling American manufacturing establishments and their decision makers. NAICS.net A directory of serious E-commerce & Agent web based companies by Extended NAICS Codes offering links to E-commerce sites, Web Parametric Configurator-WPC™, and Web Parametric Quote-WPQ™ for the International Market place as well as to designated local areas. B2B Explorer, Inc. a comprehensive business to business directory and search engine.  Biz-2-Biz Directory Cogent Software, Inc. biz2bizGuide2000  guide to  business-to-business listings on the internet Singapore Connect Database of Singapore companies that are looking for partners, searches of Singapore companies by selected industries or business groupings, business contacts and opportunities in any of the six categories of our new bulletin board service.

Vertical hubs

Vertical hubs serve a vertical market or industry focus. They provide deep domain-specific content and domain-specific relationships. Healtheon's mission is to leverage advanced Internet technology to connect all participants in healthcare, and enable them to communicate, exchange information and perform transactions which cut across the healthcare maze.  SciQuest.com a hub that mediates between buyers and sellers in the laboratory and scientific equipment marketplace. PlasticsNet.com has spawned a new market between plastics manufacturers and plastics processors e-Steel, makes a market between buyers and sellers of steel Floraplex "Where the Floral Industry Meets to do Business Online" Floraplex™ is a global trading and communications system designed specifically for the floral industry. Chemdex is a provider of business-to-business e-commerce solutions for the life sciences industry: a portal for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to purchase supplies.  Band-X The world's first internet based trading floor for telecom capacity Farms.com Cattle Offerings Worldwide COW (beef and dairy) IMX® Exchange  the world's only real-time bid/ask trading exchange between mortgage brokers and lenders.  PaperExchange e-commerce solution for buying and selling paper products and equipment online. When registered with PaperExchange.com, it takes only seconds to post product for sale, browse our online warehouse, or place a bid.  Ultraprise secondary market mortgage exchange Arbinet Communications trades unused long-distance telephone minutes between businesses DataNatural.com Natural Products Industry E-Commerce, Business News, Directories - Natural Products Industry OfficeShopper is a business-to-business eCommerce solution which offers corporations the ability to purchase office supplies at competitive prices through their corporate intranet and effectively manage purchasing costs. electricnet.com  The Marketplace for Professionals in the Power Distribution and Energy Services Industry  IntraMedX, the first Net-Centric, subscription-based, integrated healthcare practice management system, delivered securely via a Web Browser and the Internet, for physicians, hospitals, and managed care. W.W. Grainger, Inc. is the leading American business-to-business distributor of maintenance, repair, and operating (MRO)supplies and related information.  mroMarketplace is a community of suppliers that have partnered with MRO.com. Users of mroBuyer have access to the mroMarketplace supplier community to search product catalogs, check product price and availability, and place purchase orders. The  mroMarketplace provides MRO (maintenance, repair and operating) materials selling organizations, with a quick and easy way to sell to their customers over the Internet through the mroCommerce Network.  Endorsia.com the world's first e-business network that connects the entire supply chain of industrial goods including end-users, distributors and manufacturers. SKF is the world leader in rolling bearings and seals, and has been responsible for many of the pioneering inventions in the rolling bearing industry.  PurchasingCenter.com an online business-to-business hub for purchasing, supply management and facilities management professionals, focusing on the indirect maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) marketplace. Meat and poultry Online  Virtual community for the meat and poultry industry providing information on meat, deboning, butchering, meat cutters, poultry processing, sausage stuffer, slaughtering, smokehouses, meat aromas, ... Machine tools online Virtual community for the machinery industry providing information on cutting tool, machining center, CNC, turning center, lathe, cnc control, mills, coordinate measuring machine, grinder, bar feeder. Hydrocarbon online Virtual community for the hydrocarbon processing industry providing information on energy management, wellheads, gas processing, petrochemicals, oil engineering, petroleum refining, gas exploration, pipelines, ... Lab X  Virtual community providing to researchers unique, refurbished and used scientific equipment LabX, a VerticalNet community  Hospital Network .com  Virtual community for the healthcare industry providing information on infection control, inventory management, central service, operating room, supplies, air purification systems, cleaning supplies,  ElectricNet.com  Virtual community for the electrical power industry providing information on power fuses, demand side management, home monitoring, air pollution futures, energy policy act, pole line hardware, scada, energy, ... DairyNetwork.com  Virtual community for the dairy industry providing information on milk meters, cheese, yogurt, sour cream, cream cheese, ice cream, dairy facility, pasteurizer, fluid milk, dairy analogues, dried ... E-Dental.com Virtual community for the dental industry providing information on dentist, toothpaste, bridge, oral hygiene, maxillofacial, pedodontic, mouthwash, braces. Adhesives and Sealants .com Virtual community for the thermoplastics industry providing information on adhesives, hot melt systems, packaging sealants, pressure sensitive, PSA, emulsion polymers, thermoplastics, adhesive Metrology World .com  Virtual community for the metrology industry. Includes information on inspection, electronic gages, geometric dimensioning & tolerancing , non-contact measurement, accuracy, micrometer,and measurement systems.  Oil and Gas Online Virtual community for the oil and gas industry providing information on drilling bit, completion fluid, mobile drilling unit, offshore, gas production, offshore technology, oil exploration, gas reserve, ... Paint and Coatings Online Virtual community for the paint industry providing information on sealers, primers, acrylic urethane, latex paints, VOC, ink paints, coatings, protective coatings, paintings, pigments ,surface ... Power Online  Virtual community for the power industry providing information on superconductivity, surge protection, voltage transducers, hydroelectric power, global warming, natural gas, electrical power engineering, ... Pulp and Paper Online Virtual community for the pulp and paper industry providing information on paper finishing, wood, pulpwood, groundwood, stock preparation, paper coatings, chemical pulping, bleaching, paper converting, ... Semiconductor Online  Virtual community for the semiconductor industry providing information on microelectronics, electron beams, bipolar junctions, photostabilizers, magnetic data storage ,thin film processing,... Surface Finishing .com  Virtual community for the metal finishing industry providing information on electroplating, electroless nickel plating, web coating, electrochemical coating, resins, paint booths, lacquers, silkscreening, ... Tooling Online  Virtual community for the manufacturing industry providing information on metalcutting, toolholders, workholding, carbide inserts ,endmills, ceramic inserts, automatic toolchanger, drill jig, steady ... Wireless Design Online Virtual community for the wireless communications industry providing information on cellular communications, FDMA, GHz, gigahertz, GPS, Global Positioning Systems, GSM, PSC, telecoms telecommunications, ... Bakery Online Virtual community for the baking industry providing information on agitators, bakers, calcium salts, dividers, dough processors, dough rolling machines, emulsifiers, enzymes, flour, freshness enhancers, ... Bioresearch Online Virtual community for the bioresearch industry providing information on agarose, antibodies, reagents, biochemicals, chromatography, cloning, coenzymes, genetics, molecular biology. Food Service Central .com  Virtual community for the food service industry providing information on restaurants, wholesale grocer, foodservice operators, test kitchen, commisary, food preperation, mobile catering, contract ... Laboratory Network Virtual community for the laboratory industry providing information on magnetic resonance, gas chromatography, spectrometers and thermal analysis.

Functional hubs

Functional hubs focus on providing the same functions or automating the same business process across different industries. Their expertise usually lies in business process that is fairly horizontal, which means that it is scalable across vertical markets.  iMark.com, iMark.com uses an auction model to sell used capital equipment. Its target participants are investment-recovery managers responsible for the equipment.  Adauction (media buying) auctions off perishable online and print advertising inventory off perishable online and print advertising inventory.  MRO.com Maintenance, Repair, and Operating procurement Employease employee benefits administration Celarix the comprehensive integrated Web-based solution for global logistics management. BidCom is the building industry's first e-business services provider. YOUtilities the online load profiling service designed to optimize your participation in a deregulating electricity market.  eLance: a marketplace for buying and selling services easily delivered over the Internet, by phone or fax. HR Hub Virtual community for the human resources industry providing information on Americans with disability act, best practices, contracting work, employee discipline, family-medical leave, terminations, personality ...