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Electronic business
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Electronic business is any information system or application that empowers business processes. Today this is mostly done with web technologies.
E-business includes
Applications can be divided into three categories:
1) Internal business systems:
- customer relationship management
- enterprise resource planning
- employee information portals
- knowledge management
- workflow management
- document management systems
- human resource management
- process control
- internal transaction processing
2) Enterprise communication and collaboration
- voice mail
- discussion forums
- chat systems
- data conferencing
- collaborative work systems
3) electronic commerce - Business-to-business electronic commerce or business-to-consumer electronic commerce
- electronic funds transfer
- supply chain management
- e-marketing
- online transaction processing
Scope of e-business applications
These applications can be available to different kind of users:
- all users of the internet
- only the employees on the intranet
- a specified targeted group of users of an extranet (like customers, partners etc.)
See also
- electronic commerce
- management information systems
- information technology management
- intranet strategies
Resource
- InfoCog.com http://www.infocog.com : start an online company, business information and resources.
- MerchantPicks.com http://www.merchantpicks.com - Resource and Directory of E-Commerce marketplace,how to eatablish online store, payment processor, fraud prevention, accept credit cards on line.
- Online Shopping & ECommerce Directory http://www.onlinemarts.com/
Finding related topics
- list of information technology management topics
- list of management topics
- list of computing topics
- list of marketing topics
- list of Internet topics
- list of economics topics
- list of finance topics
- list of accounting topics
- list of human resource management topics
- list of business law topics
- list of production topics
- list of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics
- list of business theorists
- list of economists
- list of corporate leaders
- list of companies
Books
- Amor, Daniel, The E-Business (R)Evolution http://www.ebusinessrevolution.com/english/ebusinessrevolution2/ , 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, New York, 2002, ISBN 0130670391
- Chaffey, Dave, E-business and e-commerce management, Dave Chaffey, Financial Times/Prentice Hall, New York, 2001: ISBN 0273651889
- Hayes-Roth, Rick and Amor, Daniel, Radical Simplicity http://www.ebusinessrevolution.com/english/radicalsimplicity1/ , Prentice Hall, New York, 2003, ISBN 0131002910
- Shapiro, Carl and Varian, Hal R., Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, Harvard Business School Press, 1998, ISBN 087584863X
Last updated: 02-11-2005 17:47:38