Adoption rates
  Current cumulative cost savings

The adoption of Internet business solutions is occurring in more than just enterprise-sized organizations, dot.coms, and technology companies

• Organizations of all sizes and across industries have adopted Internet business solutions as a tool for lowering operating costs and increasing revenues.
• Of the organizations sampled in the United States, 61 percent have already implemented Internet business solutions. Enterprises (5000+ employees) have a larger adoption rate, with 83 percent of organizations of this size having already implemented Internet business solutions.
• Across all of the organizations sampled in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, 47 percent have adopted Internet business solutions.
• Smaller organizations in the United States were much more likely to have adopted Internet business solutions than those in the United Kingdom, France and Germany.

Organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany currently deploying Internet business solutions have realized a cumulative cost savings of $163.5 billion with the majority of the savings occurring since 1998

• The adoption of Internet business solutions has already yielded a current, cumulative cost savings of $155.2 billion to U.S. organizations that have adopted them. In addition, these organizations indicate that their Internet business solutions have also helped to increase revenues cumulatively to approximately $444 billion.
• Adoption of Internet business solutions in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany has resulted in a current, cumulative cost savings of €9 billion (U.S. $8.3 billion) to organizations deploying them. These organizations estimate Internet business solutions have also helped enhance their revenues by €86.4 billion (U.S. $79 billion) to date.