E-business

E-BUSINESS – TECHNOLOGY AND NETWORKS

WHAT IS E-BUSINESS?
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E-business (electronic business) is the conducting of business on the Internet, not only buying and selling but also servicing customers and collaborating with business partners. The processes and tools that allow an organization to use Internet-based technologies and infrastructure, both internally and externally, to conduct day to day business process operations. tands for electronic business and refers to any kind of sales, services, purchasing or commerce on the Internet. A new-tech jargon word used more for marketing than for technical description. Most commonly it broadly refers to conducting business over the Internet (email and web) by communicating and perhaps transacting (buying and selling) with customers, suppliers, and business partners.

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WHAT IS E-BUSINESS CONCEPT?
E-business defined from the following perspectives:

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Communications: delivery of goods, services, information, or payments over computer networks or any other electronic means

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Commercial (trading): provides capability of buying and selling products, services, and information on the Internet and via other online services.

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Business process: doing business electronically by completing business processes over electronic networks, thereby substituting information for physical business processes

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Service: a tool that addresses the desire of governments, firms, consumers, and management to cut service costs while improving the quality of customer service and increasing the speed of service delivery

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Learning: an enabler of online training and education in schools, universities, and other organizations, including businesses

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Collaborative: collaboration the

framework

for

inter-

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intra-organizational

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Community: provides a gathering place for community members to learn, transact, and collaborate

E-BUSINESS TYPES:
Business-to-business