2011年3月23日星期三

Using E-Commerce For Business

At a high level, there are two major types of E-commerce applications: business-to-consumer and business-to-business. Initial interest in E-commerce was in the business-to-consumer sector. There are numerous examples of high-profile business-to-consumer Web-commerce applications, including Amazon.com, CDnow, and 1-800 Flowers, and countless other mail-order businesses.

But most experts agree that the real impact of Web-based commerce will be in the business-to-business sector. For this study, we focused on products that provide solutions for business-to-business commerce over the World Wide Web.

Business-to-business E-commerce is nothing new. EDI has been around for years--but it's expensive and is beyond the scope of all but the largest companies. With the Web, E-commerce is now viable for companies of any size, not just corporate powerhouses with deep pockets and vast resources. The Web opens new opportunities for companies to engage in commerce with their suppliers, customers, and business partners.

However, there are different classes of E-commerce applications within the business-to-business sector. The primary classes are: sell-side, which focuses on selling goods or services to customers; buy-side, which focuses on helping companies make procurements; and marketplace, in which an aggregator brings together multiple buyers and sellers, providing a community for commerce among the participants.
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Each application type has different requirements. Consequently, many vendors of E-commerce software and hardware offer products specifically aimed at these application types. Vendors that want to attack multiple application types face the challenge of providing multiple products (which can be a maintenance headache) or incorporating comprehensive functionality into a single product (which can become unwieldy).

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  1. U have made it such a clear way of understanding the importance of ecommerce and online business.
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