Chase Manhattan, for instance, has been talking up the potential savings firms could make through e-billing.

ECONOMIST: Bill payment by Internet

The savings that can be realized as a result of the oversight afforded by integrating e-billing and matter management can be profound.

FORBES: Business Intelligence and Legal Matter Management

Legal departments today must integrate (i) matter management, (ii) e-billing, and (iii) reporting systems in order to maximize the effectiveness of their data.

FORBES: Business Intelligence and Legal Matter Management

In addition to its traditional services of letter and parcel delivery, the Post Office now provides services such as e-commerce fulfilment, billing and customer management, logistics and warehousing.

BBC: UK Post Office name change

Novich says he still works from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. during the week, plus time on Saturdays, though he admits to spending time on weekends handling billing and fielding e-mails and calls.

FORBES: Entrepreneurs

Do Assistant includes modules for project planning, contact management, time and billing, faxing, e-mail, scheduling, telephone control, and word processing.

CNN: Look, Ma, no keyboard

Tales abound of rip-offs, misleading advertising, inaccurat e billing and orders never arriving.

CNN: CAVEAT SURFER

Power looked at billing, customer service, cost, reliability and performance, image and e-mail.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The City currently stores and manages some data in a cloud solution, such as the Chicago Department of Aviation's data related to airline billing and building plan information as part of the Department of Buildings' E-Plan review system.

ENGADGET: Microsoft to provide cloud services for city of Chicago in four year deal